Converter Pro MIDP

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introduction

Abiro Converter Pro enables you to quickly and easily convert between popular units (including those you specify on your own) and number bases. It’s useful e.g. on trips, when faced with foreign units that you can’t convert in your head. The number base conversion is very useful when developing software or dealing with color values in web design etc. Custom conversions can be used for lacking units as well as for currency conversion etc.

Main Screen

Commands (note that these may appear as softkeys or in a menu depending on phone):

  • Convert: Converts the entered value according to the Units settings
  • Clear: Clears the value field for new input
  • Invert: Inverts the value (1/x)
  • Units: Selects unit category and from/to units
  • Custom: Manages (adds/deletes) custom conversions; see more below
  • Setup: Sets the number of decimals
  • Help: Help information
  • About: Information about the application

Usage of Conversion

  • Select Units in the menu
  • Select a Category
  • Select From and To units
  • Enter a value in Value
  • Select Convert

Custom enables you to add up to 10 own conversions based on multiplication.

Usage of Custom

  • Select Custom in the menu
  • Either Add new or Delete existing conversions
  • When adding a new conversion you specify a Name for the conversion and a Multiplier value
  • These conversions are then selected by choosing Custom in the Category list

Supported Conversion

Weight

centigrams, decigrams, dekagrams, drams, grains, grams, hectograms, hundredweights (long, UK), hundredweights (short, US), kilograms, lbs, long tons, megagrams, micrograms, milligrams, ounces, pounds, short tons, tons (long, UK), tons (metric), tons (short, US), tonnes

Length

centimeters, feet, inches, kilometers, leagues, leagues (nautical), meters, miles, millimeters, nautical miles, yards

Area

centiares, congs, covers, cuerdas, dekares, dessiatinas, dhurs, dunums / dunhams, falls (Scots), falls (English), fanegas, farthingdales, haciendas, hectares, hides, homesteads, hundreds, jeribs, jitros / jochs / jutros, kapplands, katthas (Nepal), labors, leguas, manzanas (Costa Rican), manzanas (Argentina), morgens (Germany), morgens (South Africa), mus, ngarns, nooks, oxgangs, perchs, perches (Canada), pings, pyongs, rais, roods, sections, sitios, squares, square centimeters, square chains (Gunter survey), square chains (Ramden Engineer), square city blocks, (East U.S.), square city blocks (Midwest U.S.), square city blocks (South West U.S.), square cubits, square decimeters, square dekameters, square fathoms, square feet, square feet (survey), square furlongs, square hectometers, square inches, square inches (survey), square kilometers, square leagues (nautical), square leagues (U.S. statute), square links (Gunter survey), square links (Ramden Engineer), square meters, square miles, square miles (nautical), square miles (survey U.S. statute), square millimeters, square myriameters, square Paris feet, square perchs, square perches, square rods, square varas (California), square varas (Texas), square yards, square yards (survey), stangs, stremmas, tareas, tatamis, tønde lands, townships, tsubos, tunnlands, yards, virgates

Volume

acre feet, acre feet (US survey), acre inches, barrels (UK wine), barrels (UK), barrels (US dry), barrels (US federal), barrels (US liquid), barrels (US petroleum), board feet, buckets (UK), buckets (US), bushels (UK), bushels (US dry), centiliters, cords (firewood), cord feet (timber), cubic centimeters, cubic cubits (ancient egypt), cubic decimeters, cubic dekameters, cubic feet, cubic inches, cubic kilometers, cubic meters, cubic miles, cubic yards, cups (Canada), cups (metric), cups (US), deciliters, dekaliters, drams, drums (US petroleum), drums (metric petroleum), fifths, gallons (UK), gallons (US dry), gallons (US liquid), gills (UK), gills (US), hectare meters, hectoliters, hogsheads (UK), hogsheads (US), jiggers, kiloliters, liters, measures (ancient hebrew), megaliters, microliters, milliliters, minims (UK), minims (US), ounces (UK liquid), ounces (US liquid), pecks (UK), pecks (US), pints (UK), pints (US dry), pints (US lquid), pipes (UK), pipes (US), ponies, quarts (Germany), quarts (ancient hebrew), quarts (UK), quarts (US dry), quarts (US liquid), quartsers (UK liquid), shots, steres, tablespoons (metric), tablespoons (UK), tablespoons (US), teaspoons (metric), teaspoons (UK), teaspoons (US), yards

Speed

centimeters/second, feet/second, inches/second, kilometers/hour, kilometers/second, knots, mach, meters/second, miles/hour, miles/second, millimeters/second, speed of light (vaccuum), speed of sound (air)

Time

centuries, days, days (work), decades, hours, microseconds, millennia, milliseconds, minutes, months, months (work), nanoseconds, seconds, weeks, weeks (work), years, years (work)

Note: “work” times are assuming 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, 20 days a month.

Temperature

degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, degrees Kelvin

Pressure

atmosphere, bar, hectopascal, kilogram per sq. cm, kilogram per sq. meter, kilopascal, millibar, millimeter of mercury, pascal, pounds per sq. foot, pounds per sq. inch, torr

Angle

degrees, full circles, grads, minutes, points, radians, seconds

Computer

billions, bits, bytes, kilobits, kilobytes, megabits, megabytes, millions, terabits, terabytes, thousands

Note: thousands, millions and billions are the exact values 10^3, 10^6 and 10^9 respectively. These are useful to get the actual amount of data.

Number Base

binary (2), octal (8), decimal (10), hexadecimal (16)

Custom

Any multiplication-based conversion. Up to 10 conversions can be saved.

Notes

  • Category and From/To Units are remembered, so you can quickly make several conversions using the same settings. Also, the last value converted will be used as the new value for the next conversion.
  • Note: Times are approximate (24 hours per day, 30 days per month, 365 days
  • per year). Work-related times assume 8 hours per work day, 5 days per week etc, and are useful for preliminary project planning and similar.

Compatibility

Any mobile phone with CLDC 1.0 / MIDP 1.0, which should be pretty much any phone supporting MIDlets. The only concern might be available memory on older phones.