Re: ISP Dialer Application question
Re: ISP Dialer Application question
- Subject: Re: ISP Dialer Application question
- From: Morgan Redman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 18:37:16 -0700
- Resent-date: Thu, 16 May 2002 18:38:26 -0700
- Resent-from: Morgan Redman <email@hidden>
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Custom Dialers are not *just* important for name recognition. If you
are a big cell phone company, selling Phones that are , for example,
GPRS enabled, you dont want to hand the user a list of scripts and tell
them to pick the right one themselfs. Each phone works slightly
different and can need custom setup. Carriers like to have a custom
dialer that can determine the type of phone the user has by itself.
Plus, there is extra information they want to present to the user that
you just cant do without having a custom app. This is especially true
when a carrier not only sells cell phones, but PC cards as well, and
they pretty much want a "launch the program" "pick the port type" and
click "connect" method of getting online. PC cards have custom SDK to
access them, plus they can do things cell phones cant, like providing
information such a signal strength even durring a call, or sending /
receiving SMS messages!
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Morgan Redman
Xybec Solutions
www.xybec.com
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IMHO, the Mac way would be not to write the dialer at all. Remote Access
is the Macintosh dialer. I would expect it pretty much does everything
that needs to be done.
That said, there are reasons to do one yourself. The primary one being
advertising and name recognition. Of course as a software guy, I find
little value in this, of course, companies think this is important. Oh
well.
...Duane Murphy
Efficient Networks, Inc.
<http://www.efficient.com/>
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