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About Turbo

Turbo is a mobile phone accessory - simple add-on containing microcontroller (MCU) ATmega128 produced by Atmel and (optional) memory card - DataFlash (tm) (serial flash memory in MMC format) produced also by Atmel.

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Turbo is a middleman between ME (phone) and SIM

Connected to the mobile equipment (ME) and SIM Turbo interferes ME<->SIM communication giving user access to SIM Toolkit (STK) applications developed independently on mobile operators and equipment vendors.

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Turbo with memory card - top side

Compared to other application platforms available (WAP, Java, Symbian to name some) SIM Toolkit is the most widespread technology (all phones since december 1999), probably the most used (due the popularity of GSM banking) and for sure the least hyped way to bring applications to the end user.

SIM Toolkit gives developers access to low level mobile equipment functionality, current development of Turbo has been focused mainly on SMS handling.

Turbo is unique in the possibility to enhance functionality of the existing SIMs owned by the mobile users, e.g. giving them more space for SMS, contacts or network subscription emulation.

Examples of applications:

Note:
Many of the mentioned applications are available as free, open source examples provided by BLADOX.

Examples of hardware applications:

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Turbo bottom side, card edge connector

On the software side Turbo consists of operating system (kernel) developed by BLADOX, applications (BLADOX or 3rd party) and development tools (the free, open source GNU Tool Chain).

Features of the hardware:

Features of the Turbo operation system:

Features of the development:


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Turbo version 1.0