GPRS IP Networking

[Samuel Melrose]

Hey,
Erm, you say that SMS is free, or at-least receiving them is. Maybe if  
you could implement such an application, you could get your server to  
SMS your phone when you have important messages with a special trigger  
code, and then you're phone would connect and download the messages?
Not sure if this is possible, or if it would be cheaper / waste of  
time... But if you were going with text messages, it'd be expensive to  
fit anything more than a small message on?
Or just the old fashioned way of the server sending you a text alert  
for you to read, to say that you need to go download then, because  
there is (x) new messages.

Thanks,
Samuel Melrose
sam at feel-the-darkness.co.uk

On 19 May 2008, at 17:15, Steven Kurylo wrote:

> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Brandon Kruse  
> <admteamkruz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Either way, you could write a simple program on the phone to keep  
>> connecting
>> to an end point (server) and give the server reverse access  
>> (stunnel) back
>> to the device.
>
> Yeah, thats what I was hoping to avoid :-)
>
> I was thinking of looking at the cost savings of implementing a mail
> push system versus imap idle.  The server would push important mails,
> but otherwise my client wouldn't check unless I asked it too.
> Obviously the break even point depends on how many messages you get an
> hour.
>
> Though around here incoming SMS are free, so I could push that way...
>
> -- 
> Steven Kurylo
>
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