[BBLISA] Re: New cell phone recommendation?

[Sean OMeara]

Actually I just verified that the 700p has the "clickable"
functionality that Josh mentioned.

On 10/22/07, Sean OMeara <someara at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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