I am looking to offer mobile phone users a service where they can download a program (to be written by you) to their mobile phone which will allow them to see updated sports scores on their cell/mobile phone screen (the front page, where one would see the time, etc.)
Once the program is loaded onto the phone, the user can select the sports he is interested in. The phone must then automatically log into a website using GPRS (I believe this is the cheapest)(for the mobile phone to upload the data). I will be running the website. The phone must download the latest scores every (say) 10 minutes. The information must be displayed on the phone's front page.
The idea is that the mobilephone user can simply look at his phone and see the latest sports score, without having to go into menus, etc. as it is displayed on the front page.
The program needs to be adaptable to most types of mobile phone makes available in South Africa (mainly Nokia, Samsung, Sony-Erikson, Motorola, etc.)
## Deliverables
Please advise whether writing a program like this is possible.
If possible, the phone will need to check every few days to get the sports calender for the next week and then automatically upload information whenever a sports game is on that the user has indicated they would like updates for. This will be better than the phone updating every 10 minutes of every day (GPRS cost will be less as it only updates according to sports calendar which tells the phone when games are on). So, for example, if the user has indicated they want tennis updates, the calendar will say that there is a tennis event tomorrow at 11am, and the phone will know thatit only needs to update from tomorrow at 11am onwards.
I will also need help with the layout of the mobi website so that the program written for the phone uploads the correct data I have on my phone. I would like to have the website linked to other reliable sports websites that give live sports scores so that the website can automatically update the scores from teh other websites (otherwise I would need to employ someone to sit and continually update scores manually.
Please indicate on your quote if you have done work similar to this before and your perceived complexity of what I am asking.
Once you have indicated that you have experience in this and the task can be done, I will post a more detailed requirement and you may adjust your quote if necessary.
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.
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## Platform
Needs to run on mobile phones.