(keitai-l) Re: i-Mode push Technology

From: Curt Sampson <cjs_at_cynic.net>
Date: 08/09/04
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0408091531140.690@angelic-vtfw.cvpn.cynic.net>
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Frengle, Nik, VF-JP wrote:

> ...i-mode mail does not allow binary attachments.
> I-melodies, as someone already mentioned, use an ASCII code scheme
> to send melodies. Ken is right, DoCoMo did have to do something to
> compete with sha-mail, and the answer was i-shot. It is an inelegant
> solution which involves once uploading the picture to a server, and
> then appending a link to the mail which points at the picture on
> the server, which allows a DoCoMo customer to see the picture by
> clicking on the link, thereby opening a web browser, which *can*
> view and receive binary information.

Actually, that's just for mail to other docomo phones. If you send the
mail off-network, the mail arrives in MIME format with the picture
attached.

And in fact, if my recollection is not failing me, there have been
services offered since before Docomo had camera phones that would
take a MIME e-mail, detach the image, put it on a server, and forward
the message and a link to that image as an e-mail to a Docomo phone.
(This is how J-phone users could first send picture e-mail to Docomo
customers.)

cjs
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Received on Mon Aug 9 10:22:51 2004