GPS+sms apps

[Crane, Matthew]

Ok, yea, they aren't often free, but they are often free to send even
with the basic plans.  In the case of an application where it's sending
to a central server and notifications go out much more rarely, then free
to send is preferable.  I think the basic plans often charge 10-15c.
For reference, Canadian $ getting closet to parity with USD lately.

Matt



-----Original Message-----
From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Mikko J
Rauhala
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:56 AM
To: community at lists.openmoko.org
Subject: RE: GPS+sms apps

On ti, 2007-05-29 at 09:15 -0400, Crane, Matthew wrote:
> I guess SMS is generally more accessable and tends to be a lot
cheaper,
> often free, in Toronto and most of Canada.

I didn't know SMS are often free; here they cost a bundle, though a bit
less if you take a bulk deal in your monthly fees. OTOH, here we have
quite affordable no-limit GPRS(/EDGE/UMTS).

Clearly it would be good for a locator service to be able to communicate
via both methods, depending on what kind of a mobile plan the user has.

As for availability, for a GPRS-preferred user of such a service you
could pretty much assume that they are connected whenever the phone is
on and has coverage, so not that different from SMS...

-- 
Mikko J Rauhala <mjrauhal at cc.helsinki.fi>
University of Helsinki


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