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At mobalean we love to build innovative web services for Japan and the world. Our experience will help transform your ideas into successful online services.
At mobalean we love to build innovative web services for Japan and the world. Our experience will help transform your ideas into successful online services.
Mobalean is lead by Henri Servomaa, the original founder and mobile developer. At Mobalean we strive to develop services which are loved by our clients and users. By working in an agile manner, quickly adapting to changing requirements, we can deliver quickly and often.
Hailing from Finland, Henri has a long history with computers and the internet. With a background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he has worked in Japan as Software Developer and System Admin since 2001. In 2005, he joined a company to develop mobile sites for the Japanese market and has been involved in mobile ever since.
Cleve Lendon is a Canadian engineer who has been contracting for Mobalean. He came to Tokyo in 1994, and has lived here ever since. He has broad experience as a software developer, which includes development of mainframe software, Internet applications and mobile apps (Android and iOS). He is especially skilled at writing Java applications (vd. Simredo 4, Grafikilo 15). When not programming, Cleve enjoys improv acting and studying languages, such as Latin and Esperanto.
Our strength is crafting web services for both Japanese and international markets. We bring our technical and cultural experience to help you adapt your ideas into successful products.
We develop with Ruby on Rails and use the best agile practices and tools, such as test driven development and continuous integration to achieve quality.
We are the leading provider of technical expertise about the Japanese mobile web. Mobalean started when the smartphones were just appearing on the market. Our Keitai Web Technology Guide is a quick starting point for learning about the initial challenges of Japanese mobile development. Although the technology stacks have changed since the proliferation of iOS and Android, some of the idiosyncrasies remain. Most notably, the Japanese market is still very much dominated by the big three carriers: DoCoMo, au and Softbank. Developers can find more technical details in our Keitai-Dev Wiki.
Email address: info@mobalean.com
If you prefer to call us, feel free to do so under +81 (0)70-6251-7245
For users of Skype, please call mobalean
emobile has a nice offer here in Japan: a wireless 7.2mbps Internet connection for a bit under 6,000yen a month. We are using the D02HW, a USB HSDPA/HSUPA (3.5G technology) modem, but the following probably also applies to some of their other devices.
To get it to run under Linux, using a modern distribution such as Mandriva, Ubuntu or Slackware, not much configuration is needed. When the device is plugged in, it should be recognized automatically and two serial devices, /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 are created.
The easiest method to get an Internet connection up and running is to use wvdial (usually part of your distribution). The configuration is relatively easy, you only need to edit /etc/wvdial.conf (as root) and add the following section:
[Dialer em] Modem Type = USB Modem Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Baud = 460800 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATS0=0 Stupid Mode = on Phone = *99***1# Username = em Password = em
The phone number, username and password are from the device's manual.
Once this is done, you can use "wvdial em" to connect to the Internet.
Tip: if you set the user s-bit on wvdial ("chmod u+s /usr/bin/wvdial" as root), you don't need to be root to successfully create the connection.
A note about emobile and configuration tools which come with your distribution:
comgt, but that won't work correctly because this tool doesn't know emobile (yet, this is with v0.32).More success / failure stories? Please feel free to post them here!