[BBLISA] Re: New cell phone recommendation?

[Sean OMeara]

okay..

First off, SMS isn't garunteed delivery (I've experienced this... I
send nagios messages to my verizon trio via SMS)

While %99 of them come through, some don't, especially when the
network is "clogged up" or the phone is out of digital service for an
extended period of time.

With any cell phone, the SMS will appear to come from the sending
number (the paging service). This is typically easy to "dial back",
but the text blob is not. A palm based treo specifically will require
her to make a "highlight, copy, change interface, paste-text-blob,
dial" maneuver. I can't comment on the win version or any other
devices such as blackberries, iphones, or nokias.

Also, since the frequency band pagers work on is much lower, you can
get pages on the subway and other places where a cell typically has
trouble  My team trades off an alphanumeric pager to alert on the most
of things for that reason alone.

-s


On 10/22/07, Adam Moskowitz <adamm at menlo.com> wrote:
> OK, enough people have asked about this that I'd better clarify things.
>
> My wife is a doctor. Patients call the answering service and talk to a
> human being; said human types the message into a computer and sends it
> to my wife's "device." My wife currently carries a standard-issue
> alphanumeric pager but would like to replace it with a cell phone
> capable of receiving text messages of some form.
>
> We know the paging company can (and does) have everything necessary in
> place to send her messages to a cell phone instead of a pager. What we
> don't know is how the phone will interpret these messages other than
> presenting her with a blob of text. The phone may think it's a "page" or
> an "email" or a "message"; frankly we don't care which it is as long as
> she can select the call-back numnber out of the blob of text and dial it
> with little effort.
>
> What I'm interested in is the phone's UI for dialing numbers contained
> in text blobs; I already know that the phone can receive said blob of
> text and that the paging company can send said blob of text to a cell
> phone.
>
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
> AdamM
>
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