After the initial enthusiasm of getting it to work, the prospects of getting a little intro onto the Nokia 3410 (see previous post) are fading. Support for Circuit Switched Data has long been shut off in the German GSM networks, and as I understand it, the 3410 would need to make a CSD call to access a WAP gateway to download new J2ME apps, since it has no other connectivity built in. (And I would have to find or set up that WAP gateway, too.) There goes my dream of self-made 96×65 pixel porn…

There are options, but they all sound tedious: Get some flashing hardware and prehistoric software to bake my content into a firmware image, or maybe get another phone and use it to operate my own GSM base station with CSD support… Easy! :)

But! At least I got to enjoy some other pixel goodness on the weekend, with a whopping resolution of 128×112 pixels and even four greyscale levels!

The nice people at Digital Retro Park had set up a Game Boy Camera for their visitors, and I gotta say, the picture quality is way better than I had expected!

Earlier that weekend at another retro event, I was finally able to get my hands on a new art Amiga – at least for a photo-op! :)