Mobile Python: Rapid Prototyping of Applications on the Mobile Platform

Chapter 2. Getting Started

In this chapter we show you, step by step, how to install Python for S60 (PyS60) to your mobile phone. Once this is done, you can make your first PyS60 script and run it on your phone.

Since PyS60 (Figure 2.1) is not pre-installed on any S60 mobile phone by default (at least not when this book was written), you have to install it on your device. PyS60 is available on the Internet for free download.

To use PyS60, you need:

• a Nokia mobile phone, based on S60 2nd Edition or 3rd Edition

• a memory card for the phone

  Figure 2-1. Python for S60

  

• a computer which runs Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux

• a USB cable or Bluetooth to connect the phone to your computer.

If you are not sure whether your mobile phone uses 2nd Edition, 3rd Edition or some earlier version of the S60 platform, you can find out in Appendix D. Table D.1 includes information about all Nokia phone models that are based on the S60 platform at the time of writing this book. All models released after this book will use either 3rd Edition or some newer edition of the S60 platform. If you have a phone model that predates this book (2007) and it is not included in the table, it is unlikely to be compatible with PyS60.

If your phone uses S60 3rd Edition, follow the instructions in Section 2.1. If your phone uses S60 2nd Edition, follow the instructions in Section 2.2.

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