Tuesday January 04, 2005 Tsunami Disaster Cell Phone Lessons Applied to J2ME
One thing to note from the Tsunami Disaster regarding J2ME and cell phone techology: In this article people in Sri Lanka found they could not make calls on their cell phones but they could send and receive SMS text messages from their cell phones. See: Tsunami Disaster Cell Phone Lessons A good design would be to use J2ME technology as the layer on top of the SMS text layer for data transport. This way, portable J2ME MIDlets can be used as international warning monitor programs on any cell phone (which are very widespread worldwide), listening for SMS data that could announce disaster warnings (like tsunami warnings).
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