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Untrusted Java apps - and suspicious end users

Now that I've started writing little apps for phones, I occasionally get excited by one, and send a link to some people.

They get an SMS from me with an URL ending .jad, and a message urging them to install, and run it.

Some do, some don't - I suspect because they're suspicious about it.
Hell, if I didn't know about phones, and permissions, I wouldn't. No way. I'm far too suspicious when it comes to things like that.

How to update your Nokia N80 to the N80 Internet Edition firmware

Well, I bought an N80 because it said it supported SIP.

And indeed it did support it - technically. It had a SIP stack that allowed me to register with SIP servers, but it lacked a client to allow me to make SIP calls. That's the equivalent of something saying that it's "Internet ready" coming with an IP address, but no web browser. Technically true.

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