I managed to get the password to the Advanced Telematics Options menu of the Benefon phone. When I was told about this password, I was also informed that I am not ‘permitted to develop a commercial application without a developers license’. Legally and morally this is wrong. The developers license is worth about A$60,000. Since I have developed the software without the need for such a license I cannot see the need to spend so much money. After all I have not used any confidential information to develop the software, and I am not using any tools they have provided.

Now the software is written I just need to put some screenshots on my WWW site… The final piece of marketing. Oh, and if you search in Google for “site:AU benefon”, my site is number one. A great place to be!

The more I look at it, the more I love the little ZipIt Instant Messaging appliance. I know a few people who are going to kill for it. In fact, I suspect that if I show it to them I will not get it back, at least without the claw marks on the screen as I suspect I will have to pry it from their hands. The one real issue I have is the keyboard. A few times I have mis-typed things… There does not seem to be the ability to go back characters except with the backspace key deleting the text as you go. Still, it is a product I call insanely great. I really do just love the size!

I have found some hack sites here, here and here. Great descriptions I know… But these sites contain lots of useful information on the device.