Slides used for a technical session at Commits Media College, Bangalore on 6th July 2011
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Many seems to be still searching how to read Kannada on your Android phones. Lack of support for Indic language still troubles many of us who like to read and write in Indian languages.
Here is a quick how-to for your reference.
This setting will make the Opera Mini to render the page on server side and then deliver it. Hence even though your phone doesn’t have Unicode fonts or rendering capability, you can still read it.
Writing in Kannada is still not possible as of today. But its not impossible. If you dare to root your Android phone and hack into the code available out there for input methods can make it work.
Reading Kananda magazine on firefox was made possible through a plugin earlier by Sunil Jayaprakash. He is out with an Apple iPhone application for the same. This application is now approved by Apple and has been made available at Apple App Store for free. Promotional Video: Snapshot of the app on iPhone: Kudo’s to Sunil [...]
Okay, without discussing much of the technicalities behind this hack, I shall give you the steps to go ahead and get photon+ working on your machines. Step 1: Insert Photo+ onto your USB slot Step 2: Check for the product and vendor id using lsusb and keep a note # lsusb Bus 006 Device 007: [...]
My new gadget HTC Tattoo powered by Android OS and HTC Sense technology. Costs around INR 17,000. Comes with all that I need to stay connected with all social media like flickr, picasa, facebook, twitter etc. GPS works well with Google Maps, trying to work with OpenStreet Maps in coming days. All that I’m trying to do on this immediately is to get it working with Kannada support for reading and writing (Hopefully I will get enough time in my busy schedule to play with it). You can find few pics uploaded from directly from HTC on my Facebook account. Shall tweet and write more about my experience with Tattoo soon.
Specifications:
* Qualcomm® MSM7225™, 528 MHz
* Screen size: 2.8 in (71 mm)
* Screen resolution: 240 x 320
* Input devices: Resistive Touchscreen
* 3.2 megapixel fixed focus rear-facing camera
* A-GPS
* Digital compass
* RAM: 256 MB
* ROM: 512 MB
* microSD slot (SDHC compatible)
* Operating system: Android 1.6 and HTC Sense
* Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
* Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR & A2DP
* HTC ExtUSB (Mini-B USB backwards compatible)
* 3.5 mm audio jack, microphone, speaker
* Accelerometer
* FM Radio
You can find more information on HTC website.
While I’m egar to test “OpenMoko” on my MotoMing A1200, I emulate OpenMoko on my laptop to see how it really works while its on my phone. Here is the first screen of the emulator.
You too can tryout this Automatic Emulation. Its quite easy.