Cell Phones are Programmable

• Apple: Iphone SDK; http://developer.apple.com/iphone/

• Many cell phones, PDAs and even some TVs, VCRS and CD players will run Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME):

  • http://developers.sun.com/mobility/device/pub/device/list.do

• Google: Android;  The Open Handset Alliance

SDK=Software Development Kit

A few other points:

• Some cell phones record at 44kHz (CD quality).

• Floating point is supported on some platforms.

• Some computer programs can be ported directly with little modification (e.g. programs from NIST- National Institute of Science and Technology were used in this project).

• OpenGL is supported on some platforms.