What about my "Smart Phone" ?

Dear Friends,

Just a word of caution if you are purchasing a new phone just to run Sellinam.

Some of the latest "Smart Phones" try to do away with the keypad - or at least minimise their function. This was the case with my own P900 mobile phone. Sellinam works fine on these devices, however, we will not be able to "interact" with the software as there is no mechanism to use the keypad. My phone "receives" messages with the flap open and I can somehow figure and compose with the basic interface it provides at the bottom of the screen. Nothing close to composing with the normal keypad.

I have a few users who aren't very happy about Sellinam on their P900s, and Motorola E680s. These devices provide touch screen and stylus inputs for text. In the case of P800, P900 and P910, the flap must be open in order to run Sellinam (or any Java application).

Another case is the SonyEricsson S700 - a beautiful phone with brilliant resolution, audio and camera function. However, because of it's super high resolution, Tamil text appears very tiny on the screen. We do not have a provision to have bigger fonts (yet) - purely to optimise the size of the application. If we see enough demand, we'll be happy to tailor make a version specifically for the S700 - so please write to us if you own one of these beauties.

Our initial release takes the middle-path: Not very low-end and not very high-end. SonyEricsson's K500i, K700i, Nokia's 6230, 3220, and the new Series 60 phones are ideal hand-sets if you want to purchase one just for Sellinam. (Note that the 7650 and 3650 are not supported).

We do have a Symbian version in the pipeline and will be launching this in the near future. This will run on the P800, 900 910 and Nokia's Series 60s (hopefully on the 7650 and 3650 as well). However, we are unable to disclose the functionality at this point - so don't depend on this scoop :-)

anbudan,

~ MUTHU