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WM6 Smartphone or Dumbphone?

I previousely had a Nokia E50, that is not considered "Enterprise" enough by WM6 users, But it had some basic features missing in WM6 Smartphone, does any one know how to overcome them:
1. I can not only Send mails, its always send & Recieve.
2. I can not send mails to a group of mail ids, I have to select contacts individually.
3. I Can not assign a assign a specific ringtone to a group of contacts.
Is Microsoft Stupid or What? Or do they keep everything for PPC version (I dont know since I do not have one)? Or do they think that they are giving the smartphone edition as a obligation, a social service of sorts?

1. Why do you only want to send mails and not receive. Its not possible as of now.
2. Use the software EssentialContax Pro that can send mails to a group.
3. You can assign ringtones to individual users. To do it for a group try using photo contacts pro. It has many additional features too.
Both features might be supported by one of these softwares, so check on the developers website for that

Re: Softwares
Thanks for the infor, but my point is, when you are buyig an enterprise device, these features should be inbuilt. Why do I have to pay extra for getting some basic features (the price of HTC S710 is double that of Nok e50)?
I have checked flexmail, but its pretty expensive! (in Indian Context).
Re: Why I just want to send mails: GPRS connectivity in India is exceptionally slow, so If I have to urgently send a mail, I wont have to wait for the downloading of all the mails thats in my inbox!

in the advanced settings of a mailaccount you can choose to send/receive or not when you click send.
i don't know if it is only a wm6.1 option, but on mine you can choose that!

shaunak.it said:
Thanks for the infor, but my point is, when you are buyig an enterprise device, these features should be inbuilt.
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Why? Because you feel those features are 'basic'?
I've looked at Nokia E devices, but they lack certain functions which I feel are essential. Main problem for me is that Nokia is not able to sync all calendar / contact information with Exchange. Does that make the E-series 'dumbphones' ? No. It only means that I am not satisfied with the functionality I get in *my* situation.

Re: Exchange Sync
StevenK said:
Why? Because you feel those features are 'basic'?
I've looked at Nokia E devices, but they lack certain functions which I feel are essential. Main problem for me is that Nokia is not able to sync all calendar / contact information with Exchange. Does that make the E-series 'dumbphones' ? No. It only means that I am not satisfied with the functionality I get in *my* situation.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but dont you think there are a lot more people who prefer sending sms or mails to a group of people than those who has an exchange server in office for syncing contacts etc?

Thats how I went about getting the S710... defined some "must haves"
1. MUST sync with outlook (exchange) Calender, mails, contacts.
2. MUST have a normal keyboard somewhere
3. Must look pretty much like a normal phone (size/dimensions)
Now that I have my s710 some new demands are added:
MUST run photocontacts pro (the profiling is simply awesome)
MUST be able to easily have more functionality installed (WM)
Thats about it

Jacina said:
Thats how I went about getting the S710... defined some "must haves"
1. MUST sync with outlook (exchange) Calender, mails, contacts.
2. MUST have a normal keyboard somewhere
3. Must look pretty much like a normal phone (size/dimensions)
Now that I have my s710 some new demands are added:
MUST run photocontacts pro (the profiling is simply awesome)
MUST be able to easily have more functionality installed (WM)
Thats about it
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But it does run Photo Contacts Pro! BTW I am not using the official ROM, using WM6.1 Clean ROM

I know it does thats why its a new "must" for my next phone

[Q] Desktop SMS application

Hi Gurus!
Is there any possibility exists to develop an desktop application to send and receive SMS for WP7 ??
Regards

I was actually thinking about making something like this, but there's a problem...A developer cannot send SMS or mail without user intervention, so all we can do is create the SMS, send it to the SMS function, and then the user has to press send himself. As far as I can see, it's not possible to automate it...

It can be automated if you write it as homebrew (ie. not for sale in the marketplace).
That said, this isn't something I would spend time on. I believe Microsoft has said they will bring back SMS sync to WP7 in which case you could send/receive directly from Outlook on the PC. Actually, I do this already as my carrier offers this as a free add-on service.

emigrating said:
It can be automated if you write it as homebrew (ie. not for sale in the marketplace).
That said, this isn't something I would spend time on. I believe Microsoft has said they will bring back SMS sync to WP7 in which case you could send/receive directly from Outlook on the PC. Actually, I do this already as my carrier offers this as a free add-on service.
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Can you help me to get the starting point with this homebrew app. I have installed the unlocked emulator but which api should i used to acces the functionality in windows desktop app ?

shahidpak said:
Can you help me to get the starting point with this homebrew app. I have installed the unlocked emulator but which api should i used to acces the functionality in windows desktop app ?
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Guys, as of yet, we haven't figured out how to access the lower level SMS files. It probably won't be a reality for a while.. maybe until complete R/W filesystem access is achieved. At that point, you would have to make it device independent also which would increase the difficulty of doing such a thing. I would wait a while and monitor the threads discussing the different registry and filesystem findings before thinking of doing this. Right now it's a waste of time.

[POLL] Email-to-SMS

Hi all:
I am a developer for an app that forwards SMS (and other things) to an email address. Obviously it would be elegant to be able to reply to your SMS right from your email account, while the other side still sees your SMS in the normal way, and the app does exactly this.
But to get the reply back to the phone via email, we need the user to enter the email-to-SMS address as part of setup. You know, like [email protected] or @vtext.com. The app has a database for some countries and carriers but obviously its a drop in the bucket.
We are finding out that maybe not a lot of people know of such a feature on their phones, hence this poll! It'll help us try some other ideas, or implement this one differently.
Thanks!
PVS
PhoneLeash - free on Android Market

Rogers (in Canada) has this service.. but they charge us for it. So not many people actually have it.

Thanks to everyone who responded. As a result of the poll results, PhoneLeash now supports forwarding SMS (and missed calls, and location, and battery status) to another phone number via SMS. And replying back to these forwarded SMS' does not require an email-to-SMS feature. If you forward to a Google Voice number (or other PC-based SMS-capable services such as HeyWire, Pinger), you can use a PC, and enjoy a very nice feature set (see this review).

Thanks for the useful development for mobile users and internet users as well.
However, I'm already using this service with the help of third party i.e. TextMarketer.co.uk

Play (Poland) already has such a service. It is free for everyone. Polish speakers can check it here: http://www.blogplay.pl/2010/11/kopia-sms-na-email-beta/

Email related problem

Whenever I reply an email from my phone. Instead of showing the correct sender's email in a quote, It shows a bunch of code. These code display both on the the phone (sent items) and on Gmail web page.
My question are what is causing the problem and how to solve it?
Thank you very much
Enclosed some desmonstration.

Whoa... I've enver seen that before, sorry.
A few questions that might be relevant:
What language is the phone configured to use?
Is the email being sent directly to your Gmail account, or are you forwarding it from another server (and if so, which)?
Did you configure the Gmail account using the Google account template on the phone, or did you set it up as just an IMAP or POP3 email server?
What OS version is on your phone? (There has been at elast one update regarding original message body handling.)
The phone doesn't usually modify the original message at all (something some people have complained about, actually) so this is really weird. On my Gmail account, I've never seen anything like that.

Thanks for replying
The phone is an HTC Radar with HD2O's Dynamics7 1.21 - build is 8779
Language is en-UK
I'm pretty sure it's not about the ROM because I've encountered this problem on stock Mango ROM.
Mail arrives as usual and I reply by pressing Reply button.
It's a mailbox configured by adding Google Account, not manually configured.
I think the problem is on text encoding but don't know how to solve it yet

[Q] Modifying default email service providers?

Is it possible to add or modify the list of built in email providers that Android knows about?
For example, at our company we are using Pantech devices. When the Email application is launched for the first time it asks you to select your email provider: MS Exchange ActiveSync, gmail.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, att.net, aol.com, aim.com, lycos.com, Other(POP3/IMAP).
I want to modify this to include our companies default email settings if possible.
I've already rooted the devices to customize them so that is not an issue; I just simply cannot find ANY information about this. Are they built in to the APK? I've opened the APK but couldn't find anything inside of it that seems to list the providers.