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Anonymous   04-22-2004 at 07:07:37 PM

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I'm starting to get intrigued with all of the things you can do
nowadays with your cell phone. I was hoping someone could answer some
basic questions and kind-of point me in the right direction to learn
this stuff:

1) Ringtones. It seems like a million websites are saying they have
free ringtones, but then its just a bunch of characters to program
your phone. How do you get the ringtones to download directly to your
phone? Is it sent as an SMS message? Do I need a Web-enabled
service?

2) Pictures. If I want to put a .jpg as the background image of my
Samsung phone, do I send it to the phone using a special type of
message? Again, is this an SMS thing, or a web-enabled service that
is required?

3) SMS. I love SMS. I forward my email to my cell phone when I am
on the road by forwarding to the email address associated with my
phone (9995551122@tmomail.net). My question is, does every SMS phone
have an email associated with it? Is there a "directory" of sorts to
figure out what providers use what standards?

Thanks!

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Anonymous   04-23-2004 at 01:53:39 PM
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First, you should find the correct newsgroup ... x-posting is frowned upon.
You have a Samsung and are asking qeustions to a Nokia audience...

> 1) Ringtones. It seems like a million websites are saying they have
> free ringtones, but then its just a bunch of characters to program
> your phone. How do you get the ringtones to download directly to your
> phone? Is it sent as an SMS message? Do I need a Web-enabled
> service?

They will be sent to you in a similar format to SMS. Your phone will pipe up
and state that "A new tone has been received" and give yhou the options to
play, save and delete it. If your phone has a composer option, try
investigating this ... compose your own ringtones and you do get them free.
Look for the composer option in with the ringtones section on your phone ...
if so, then start looking on the net for RTTL and KEYPRESS ringtones.

> 2) Pictures. If I want to put a .jpg as the background image of my
> Samsung phone, do I send it to the phone using a special type of
> message? Again, is this an SMS thing, or a web-enabled service that
> is required?

This varies from phone to phone.

> 3) SMS. I love SMS. I forward my email to my cell phone when I am
> on the road by forwarding to the email address associated with my
> phone (9995551122@tmomail.net). My question is, does every SMS phone
> have an email associated with it? Is there a "directory" of sorts to
> figure out what providers use what standards?

A phone only has it, if the user has enabled it and no there's no directory.
The format (as I have seen) is usually:

" reference/phonenumber @ serviceprovider . ( com | co.uk | net ) "

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Joseph   04-23-2004 at 03:48:36 PM
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On 22 Apr 2004 13:07:37 -0700, TomRossi7@yahoo.com (Tom Rossi) wrote:

>3) SMS. I love SMS. I forward my email to my cell phone when I am
>on the road by forwarding to the email address associated with my
>phone (9995551122@tmomail.net). My question is, does every SMS phone
>have an email associated with it? Is there a "directory" of sorts to
>figure out what providers use what standards?

Each carrier has different address schemes e.g. @tmomail.net,
@messaging.sprintpcs.com, @vtext.com etc., but the easier way rather
than trying to remember what they all are is to do [ten
digits]@teleflip.com e.g. 3115552368@teleflip.com the message will get
delivered to the correct carrier.

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