I was thinking about making some programs for my Kyocera kx9c cellphone ,only I have no idea what I'm doing.A little web research tells me I can use BREW .BREW is a c/c++ SDK you can use to write programs for certain cellphones.At least that is my feeble understanding of what exactly BREW is.I can't get any information from the Qualcomm website unless I register.To register I need to put the name of my company.Obviously I don't have a company.O.K.I could put a fake company just to get the SDK and the info but I would like to know what I can do with it first.What cellphone functions can I access?That way I can think of something besides "hello world!" to write.I can't even find any example source code.That's why we all love proprietary crap ,right?

Anyway,is BREW worth all the trouble?

Hi -

If you're really interested in programming for cell phones, I'd definitely encourage you to look into BREW. I'm no fan of proprietary APIs either, but I think asking you to register is reasonable.

Anyway, here's a good article about Brew in the on-line version of Byte:

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=9553..._beaulieu.html

'Hope that helps .. PSM

PS:
Byte will ask you to register, too ;-)

I used bugmenot to check it out but it still doesn't tell me what my cellphone will do .You have to be certified to get that info :P .I found a forum for BREW and it looks like you can compile BREW with gcc.I also found some developers complaining about how buggy the tools where.I good computer blew a PSU so I'm waiting to get it fixed before I set anything up. Here is a link to some info for anyone interested.

http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/dev...resources.html