MPE history [to be... started?]

Anmeldedatum: 03.04.2015 Beiträge: 41

hi,

(this is my 2nd post, and i need 3 more to p.m. anyone here, so if you find this is nonsense... just wait for the ones to come). Twisted Evil

FJ, should you have enough time for it, we (or just me) are interested in knowing sth about you, the starting of this project, some technical issues on it (what tools - compilers, programming langs, APIs, SDKs, ...) you're using, and how everything is getting on (an informal changelog).

Any other idea that may concern me, i keep it for a new post. Laughing

Verfasst am: Mi Apr 22, 2015 09:37

Well, as someone who was present when the idea of the MPE was born, I´ll can tell you this.

The MPE started when there was no thinking of Android or Symbian or even any Smartphone. Back in those days, Ericsson or /// as we called it delivered their phones with a CD that included a PC Suite. This Suite was meant to connect your phone to a Windows PC in order to organize your contacts, your calendar and help you store music files, pictures and themes on your phone.

In a forum especially devoted to /// and themes many people complaint that it was not possible to store text messages. Phones at this time stored them onto the SIM and that meant you could save 12 texts at most.
This is where FJ kicked in. He had the idea of writing a tool to save those texts to a PC. But this functionality alone wasn´t enough. So all the other functions of the MPE were added.

Over the time /// merged with Sony or S and S/// was born. That didn´t stop FJ and he kept developing the MPE further. By the time /// vanished and S remained, phones were run on Symbian. This was the first step of making MPE available to more than one system. These first smartphones didn´t live long and were soon succeeded by Android, which opend the MPEs door to other manufacturers than S.

That was the idea of the MPE in verry short words.
For the technical side you´ll have to wait and see if FJ is willing to reveal details.

Anmeldedatum: 03.04.2015 Beiträge: 41

Koelner hat Folgendes geschrieben:

Well, as someone who was present when the idea of the MPE was born, I´ll can tell you this.
The MPE started when there was no thinking of Android or Symbian or even any Smartphone.

So, you're a grandpa?

Koelner hat Folgendes geschrieben:

Back in those days, Ericsson or /// as we called it delivered their phones with a CD that included a PC Suite.

Nokia did it too.

Koelner hat Folgendes geschrieben:

Phones at this time stored them onto the SIM and that meant you could save 12 texts at most.
This is where FJ kicked in. He had the idea of writing a tool to save those texts to a PC.

I'm missing something: a PC Suite let you organize contacts, calendar, music, and did not let save SMSs? I bet the former assumption came later... and MPE got some ideas from there. Wink

Koelner hat Folgendes geschrieben:

But this functionality alone wasn´t enough. So all the other functions of the MPE were added.

For good.

Koelner hat Folgendes geschrieben:

Over the time /// merged with Sony or S and S/// was born. By the time /// vanished...

... i left /// and i sought for another job Smile

Koelner hat Folgendes geschrieben:

...These first smartphones didn´t live long and were soon succeeded by Android

Oh my!: I bet (i hope) Android shall not live much longer: Symbian is still alive, no matter how well they can conceal it!

Koelner hat Folgendes geschrieben:

For the technical side you´ll have to wait and see if FJ is willing to reveal details.

Waiting.

Verfasst am: Mo Apr 27, 2015 22:22

gautxori hat Folgendes geschrieben:

So, you're a grandpa?

Hey, be careful! Laughing

Koelner hat Folgendes geschrieben:

Symbian is still alive

OH MY!

Anmeldedatum: 03.04.2015 Beiträge: 41

Koelner hat Folgendes geschrieben:

Symbian is still alive

OH MY![/quote]

It's true: Symbian has no more offspring, but you (& me) know that breeding is one in many facts in life. Growing old and being acknowledged are some other. When they regard you as being dead before they've killed you... you may become immortal.
The only one to be missed is EPOC (edit: also, my ZX Spectrum and the latter Potter-Sinclair alliance; there were also Alan Sugar, Paul Rosbaud, ...)
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