[Gllug] sony ericsson mobiles & linux

Rev Simon Rumble simon at rumble.net
Thu Feb 2 14:55:06 UTC 2006


On 2/2/2006, "Richard Cohen" <vmlinuz at gmail.com> wrote:

>SMS sending and receiving is likely to be quite easy, either using
>off-the-shelf code or your own, since there are clearly defined and
>relatively simple standards in the GSM extensions to the AT command set for
>it.

Ahh, didn't know there was a standard for it.  Should be fine then.

>but one of the things which always impressed me about the SE
>phones, and SE in general, was their apparent willingness to support
>standards 

I take it that the "Sony" part is in name only then, in that case. 
Certainly doesn't like anything else in their product lines.

>I haven't spent much time on mobile phone comms recently - except for
>getting my laptop online using bluetooth to my unmetered-GPRS Treo - but I
>have messed around quite a lot with it in the past...

How do you get unmetered GPRS?  Orange are currently raping me on data
charges: £4/megabyte!!!

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