Z600 - Uploading files from a unix box

rhoenie@indigo.homeunix.org (Marcus Herbert) wrote in message news:<e4qk81-ts1.ln1@Indigo.Homeunix.Org>...
> i dont have a PC at home just a few SGI unix workstations. How can i
> upload ringtones, data and maybe selfwritten java apps into the Z600?

You have excellent taste.

> Bluetooth is out of question but i have seen IrDA adaptors that plug into
> the serial port of a computer and you communicate with it like a modem.
> Did anybody ever tried it that way? Writing the software for it is not
> the problem here.
>
> Or do other possibilities exist? Download the stuff into the phone using
> an email attachment or anything like that. I can even setup my own WAP
> server.

I wouldn't immediately assume bluetooth is out of the question - you
can use a UART interface to a bluetooth chipset, and then pretty much
anything with a serial interface will be able to communicate. I don't
know if the *BSD flavors have appropriately functional bluetooth
protocol stacks, but I believe they do. Linux definitely does.

I have a Belkin model F8T003 USB bluetooth interface, and it
coincidentally has pads on the circuit board labelled "RTS", "CTS",
"TX" and "RX". Since most BT chipsets have USB and UART interfaces
built-in, I'm fairly confident that you could just do RS232 to TTL
level conversion, add 5v power, and make this work on any platform you
wanted, if you wanted to hack it.

On the P800 and T39m, IrDA is a reasonable choice. I haven't done it
on any free OSs yet since I do bluetooth, but you should be able to
transfer apps that way. Note that I haven't yet tried this phone in
particular of course.

If data is cheap enough, you can just do it over WAP. You only need a
standard HTTP server. WAP is analogous to HTTP, the way that WML is
analogous to HTML. Your cellular provider runs the WAP to HTTP
gateway. When you enter a URL in your phone, it goes via WAP to the
gateway, which then sends it out via HTTP. All you need to do on your
own server is configure the appropriate MIME types.

Most Java apps are set up with a combination of a JAR and a JAD file.
The JAD file contains metadata including a URL to the JAR file, which
contains the actual stuff. Just have Apache or equivalent know what
the MIME types are, and most phones will download over the air
happily.

Email is probably likely to work too, but I have less experience with
that, and it's very phone dependent.

Hopefully that's a bit of help. Bluetooth is really cool. You should
see if you can hack it up. An SGI with bluetooth would be insanely
cool, IMHO.