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A mobile phone is a cool gadget to play with, especially when [the author] can run [the authors] favourite programming language (no prize for guessing what it is!) on it! That was the logic which made [the author] purchase a Nokia Series 60 smartphone, the N-Gage QD. This article describes a few experiments [the author] did with the mobile - like setting up Bluetooth communication links, writing Python/C code and emulating serial ports.

This has some fun and easy snippets of things to do. This one is particularly interesting -- making it much easier to enter some Python:

Once you get the serial port emulation working, there is another interesting hack to explore. The Nokia Python distribution comes with a program called `btconsole.py'. On one console of your Linux machine, run the command:

rfcomm listen /dev/rfcomm0

Now run `btconsole.py' on the phone. You will see that after a few seconds, `rfcomm' will respond with a `connected' message. Once you get this message, take another console and run:

minicom -m

What do you see on the screen? A Python interactive interpreter prompt! You can now type in Python code snippets and execute them on the phone on-the-fly! Isn't that cool?

Read more here:

Hack a Mobile Phone with Linux and Python