Sending a SMS business card

[ThirdLion]

Hi All

Those of you that are familiar with Nokia phones (I am sure this sort of thing
is available on other phone types as well) will know that there is a feature
that allows people to send a "Business Card" to a specified number. This will
then send the name of the person as specified on the persons phone and their
phone number to another mobile. Does anyone know how to acomplish this with
CF? I haven't had chance to look at the SMS gateway in MX7 yet, so I don't
know if this is something that is built in.

TIA

Tony

[byron1021]

I think SMS gateways are strickly a text message thing, based on the
documentation for incoming sms messages and the data structure.
[url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/[/url]
wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&fi le=part_cfm.htm Sounds like
that may be some sort or Nokia only thing, or 'not a standard yet' kind of
protocol. Perhaps someone will write a gateway for it in the future. FYI,
You can write your own type of gateways. Althought I can't really think of an
example. I'm sure there are plenty of examples.

[ThirdLion]

Byron,

Thanks for the response, I did some tests last night on different mobiles and
found that it is only a Nokia thing, which kinda sucks. It doesn't work on
Samsung or some other mobile types!

Thanks for the response

Tony

[prayank]

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well ThirdLion ... business cards are definitely nokia specific.. do u know
that even those picture sms (text looking like pics - i believe the technical
term is called EMS) is also a nokia specific protocol, so that is one reason
why those cool looking text graphics on Nokia phones dont look cool on samsung
etc.

If you are into getting ur hands dirty, you might want to do this for a fun
thing:
1. All mobile phones can be used as modems, there is a full documented
protocol to talk to these modems using the HAYES COMMAND SET. You can connect
your phone to ur comp using the data cable and connect to it using the windows
utility :
start -> accessories -> communication -> hyperterminal

the command sequence you might get online just search for hayes command for
mobile phone modems

2. You might further this and write a geeky app - create a Java object using
the JAVA COM API which talks to the phone in above manner and then connect it
to CFM page - i dunno how this will work might not, how will the cfm page
respond u might need to use a "push" architecture.

Prayank Swaroop
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