On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Jonas Petersson wrote:
> True - with a synced address book, replying on the computer instead of
> the phone is really easy (I do that now and then). However, as not quite
> everyone has the email=3D>SMS feature in the GSM world, this is sometimes
> less good as the SMS reply would get to the person instantly whereas the
> email might have to wait until the receiver gets to a computer.
You might still be missing something here: there's no problem if you
Just Use E-mail on the phones. When I receive e-mail from someone's
phone, it doesn't matter whether I reply on my computer or reply on my
phone; the reply goes straight back to their phone, right away.
> To most people, being able
> to reply wherever you are is the whole point of SMS.
Right. And the whole point of e-mail on phones, too.
> > 2. I have some handy translation tools available to me on my computer
> > that I don't on my keitai.
>
> This argument goes for zillions of things beyond translation. Though for
> SMS we are talking 160*x characters where x is typically less than 10
> and in older phones actually 1. No essays, right?
Well, that's one of the other sad things about SMS. Docomo has always
had 512 byte messages, and you can now set it to allow several KB
messages (though I don't know if there are any phones yet that
automatically combine the split parts).
On the other hand, I keep phone set to truncate at 512 bytes anyway,
because if an e-mail is longer than that I can get the gist on my phone,
and then deal with the whole thing later on my computer.
> > 3. If your phone is out of range, you can still use the messages. I
> > spent three weeks in the U.S. and Canada recently, and continued to do
> > all my text messaging despite my phone out of range.
>
> Hmm, perhaps I'm spoilt by using highend 9x10 phones for many years, but
> I have no problem sending SMS when out of range....
I think you mean that you have no problem storing SMS to send later,
right? That's the same as on the Japanese phones. The point is, when I'm
out of range, I still receive, and can send an instant reply to, all of
my keitai messages as long as I've got Internet access.
Do you really have coverage in Japan? Or would you just be stuck if you
spent two weeks here?
cjs
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Received on Mon Jan 20 11:23:28 2003