I had a breakthrough this week with getting the QR code reader to work on my test phone (a Nokia N70 I picked up cheaply on ebay) !!! I've been producing new works for an exhibition at The Hannah Maclure Centre called "Signals in the City" opening on the 29th of February 2008.

It was about the 5th bit of software that I had tried from all these free downloads and I was close to giving up and thinking the whole idea was a stupid one. The website that I downloaded the software from had a whole list of phones that work with it, (though the list needs to be updated). www.i-nigma.mobi has a phone detect on it which is great, cos it then serves the right version to your phone.

The phones listed have a particular combination of features needed for my artworks.Not all phones support the software listed, so these models are  the important ones and prob not interchangeable with others unless tested.

Features:
•    Camera – needed to scan codes
•    i-nigma software – this is the qr code reader needed for users to interact with the artworks. If you go to www.i-nigma.mobi when on one of these the site should pick up the model number and provide the correct version of the software to download.
•    flash lite – supports flash websites for mobile phones
•    Symbian OS – smart phone operating system allows more functionality for future development.

1st choice: Nokia 6120 classic £100 from 3  (2mpx camera, runs i-nigma, flash lite and is symbian os) OR
2nd choice: Nokia 6300 £69 from T-mobile, carphonewarehouse, Orange, Tesco (2mpx camera , runs i-nigma & flash lite, but NOT symbian os) OR
3rd choice: have I lost time, (1.3 mpx camera, runs i-nigma, but not flash lite or symbian os)