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

From: Dimitris Tzanerakis <grand_illuminatus_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 08/06/04
Message-ID: <20040806063735.21033.qmail@web53102.mail.yahoo.com>
It may be that users in Japan are more accustomed to
using email on their mobiles, but this is not the case
with users in Europe. Plus, i-Mode is way more
widespread in Japan than in Europe. On the other hand,
if you can accomplish the same thing with email as
with SMS...

Tzanerman
  
--- Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote: 
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Dimitris Tzanerakis
> wrote:
> 
> > My company already has a wap "push"
> > scheme, where a user will send an SMS to a 4-digit
> > number (say s/he wants to get a new wallpaper or
> > ringtone), the company server then sends a reply
> with
> > a link, which the user then uses to get what he
> wants.
> > Is this thing feasible via SMS in i-Mode?
> 
> You'd be crazy to do this with SMS on Docomo phones;
> nobody uses it. For
> example, I have received a total of two SMS messages
> in three and a half
> years here; the last one was more than two years
> ago. I've sent one or
> two, but just to play with it. By comparison, I have
> sent and received
> several thousand e-mail messages in the same period.
> 
> You really want to just do this via regular Internet
> e-mail. Just set up
> an e-mail address that has an auto-responder behind
> it.
> 
> cjs
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Received on Fri Aug 6 09:37:40 2004