That's exactly what happened to me. But if you don't have the data plan, why would you need the phone? Two things I really like about my new feature phone... (a) phone quality is better (b) it's smaller
I did this, but for a specific city service in Madison, WI. I built an API for the Madison Metro bus service that provides a nice web service for developers, but does ugly screen scraping behind the scenes.
Have you looked into jquery mobile? Still in alpha, but a nice toolkit for building mobile apps that run in the browser but look and feel like a native app.
There are some companies doing this for general prescriptions. Vitality - http://www.vitality.net/ - has a wireless cap that helps track adherence.
But asthma is pretty unique since the inhalers are used in "rescue" situations and there are strong geographic correlations that arise from environmental issues.
Consider it payment for your work growing the tech community in Madison, WI as well as a down payment for your future evangelism on the behalf of Madison.
Madison has many parallels with Boulder but not necessarily in the realm of nurturing tech startups. So there is a lot to learn. Bring me to Boulder for the week, and I'll soak it all in and bring it back to Madison.
Hopefully, in a year or so, I'll have an opportunity to reciprocate.
check out the rest of their message... sharendipity is building a platform where all of these programming elements can be re-used without the need to program. you can build a complete application without punching a single semi-colon.