[TP] Jan 22, 2005.  I recently bought a new phone for my mobile service, an
Audiovox SMT5600
[http://www.audiovox.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=13758&langId=-1].
This is the same device sold in Europe by Orange as the SPV500. Other phones with the same
O/S include the Motorola MPx 220.

[http://www.audiovox.com/images/products_large/smt5600_y.jpg]


This device runs ''Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software for Smartphone'' [http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/smartphone/default.mspx], which is a newer name for
[Windows/CE], running on a 200mHz ARM processor.  The device is not quite like a 
[PocketPC], in that it has a smaller screen (176x220), and is not touch sensitive.
Instead, a 5-way rocker switch is used to navigate, along with two soft menu keys.  It
also employs T9 [http://www.t9.com/] for ''smart'' text input, in addition to the 'multiple keypress' to
select various letters, number, and special characters.

I having been experimenting with running Tcl/Tk on the phone. I installed the
Tcl/Tk CE 8.4.6 package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcltkce.  
The '''good''' news is that Tcl/Tk does indeed run on the phone!!.  
The '''bad''' news is that the limited
input is going to need some work to make the device a useful Tcl/Tk platform.  

So far, I've been able to start TkCon (after a small
bug fix), and run a few other ''hello world'' type programs.  The 5-way rocker
switch is currently interpreted as cursor motion (up, down, right, left) and Enter
(press down).  The two soft keys are not currently used, and the keyboard is
locked in numeric mode, so character input with T9 or multi-press is not
avaiable.  There is at least one
Bluetooth keyboard that is known to work with the SMT5600, so perhaps I'll have to
give it a try [http://www.freedominput.com/Freedomkeyboard/index.htm].

I followed the install instructions from the tcltk846ce-arm.zip distribution file.
Be sure to get the WinCE Desktop tools from 
[http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/wince-desktop-tools.tar.gz]
, in order to get the ''cereg'' program needed
to make required registry entries.  I installed in '''\Storage\Program Files\Tcl''' to get the
software placed in the flash memory area.  The distributed tkcon.tcl needed a small bug fix,
at line 678:

  # Place it so that the titlebar underlaps the CE titlebar
  set root $PRIV(root)           ;# ADD THIS LINE
  wm geometry $root +0+0

Perhaps [Jeff Hobbs] has this fixed in later versions.

I also have been able to use the SyncCE [http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/]
package to access this device from Linux, in order to do some basic file copying.
Most other software you can get for the device requires a working Windows system to
install; typically a Windows (x86) executable 'setup.exe' file extracts the actual
ARM binary and installs it on the device.  I've found a couple of small freebie text editors 
[http://orneta.com/notepad4smartphone/] and [http://www.smartphone.net/software_detail.asp?id=836]
that can be used for coding.

More to come as I have time to play.....