Re: Using cell phones with WO...anybody ?
Re: Using cell phones with WO...anybody ?
- Subject: Re: Using cell phones with WO...anybody ?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:40:45 -0500
If you are trying to send and receive SMS messages in your application there are numerous options.
Here are a few:
1. Send using the carriers SMTP->SMS gateway. (email@hiddenver). This technique is quickly becoming unreliable as more subscribers tranfer numbers from carrier to carrier.
2. Setup your own SMS gateway such as Kannel http://www.kannel.org.
3. Do something simpler using a modem and/or connection via a cellphone connected to your network or server.
4. License one of the numerous third party gateways and use their API. We have used Simplewire.com which works well for us, but there are other companies out there.
With the exception of #1 all the other options will have costs for both sending and receiving. If you are going anywhere near consumers remember in the US the recipient is charged for receiving SMS messages in addition to the cost you are paying to send them.
Only 2, 3 and 4 would have the option of receiving SMS messages. Of course your choice depends on the transmit/reception rate, costs and technical effort you wish to commit.
I have also experimented with using some of the AIM libraries out there to send and receive instant messages from phones. It works pretty well but is not nearly as stable as SMS since the major IM networks like to break things from time to time.
You other option would of course be to create a simple, slim and functional xhtml interface for mobile users. We have had tremendous success using a mapping technique to simply subclass the components to mobile counterparts. We just sniff for the mobile platform/browser during the initial request and return the mobile pages to that session.
I hope that helps. Good luck.
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Lon Baker
Speedymac LLC
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