Chris Ridd

On 2007-12-01 22:39:39 +0000, Ian Robinson <junk@canicula.invalid> said:

> On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:25:30 +0000, Danny Thompson wrote
> (in article
> <75949f29-455a-4248-b6d8-7376a7c4e0af@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>):
>
>>> Doesn't it sit in some outbox waiting?
>>
>> No.
>
> It does if you don't click cancel in the SMS compose page. If I'm
> writing a txt, and use the home button to go to the home page and use
> some other app, when i go back into the SMS app the txt I was working
> on pops right up again. You can't save as a draft, but you can leave it
> partially done. You can't have multiple drafts at ones though.
>
> I hope everyone is filling feedback requests.

At least you can copy the message you're about to send and then paste
it into a new one...

Cheers,

Chris

Sarah Brown

In article <fit602$bko$3$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>,
Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co. uk> wrote:
>
>> You also can't address an SMS to multiple recipients.
>
>Same problem: the standardised GSM language has no way to give multiple
>recipients for an SMS. It has one 'space' to enter one recipient number.

But other phones overcome that in their UI by letting you send the
same SMS to multiple people. It's a pretty basic usability thing.

Sarah Brown

In article <fit602$bko$3$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>,
Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co. uk> wrote:
>
>> You also can't address an SMS to multiple recipients.
>
>Same problem: the standardised GSM language has no way to give multiple
>recipients for an SMS. It has one 'space' to enter one recipient number.

But other phones overcome that in their UI by letting you send the
same SMS to multiple people. It's a pretty basic usability thing.

Sarah Brown

In article <fit602$bko$3$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>,
Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co. uk> wrote:
>
>> You also can't address an SMS to multiple recipients.
>
>Same problem: the standardised GSM language has no way to give multiple
>recipients for an SMS. It has one 'space' to enter one recipient number.

But other phones overcome that in their UI by letting you send the
same SMS to multiple people. It's a pretty basic usability thing.

Sarah Brown

In article <fit602$bko$3$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>,
Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co. uk> wrote:
>
>> You also can't address an SMS to multiple recipients.
>
>Same problem: the standardised GSM language has no way to give multiple
>recipients for an SMS. It has one 'space' to enter one recipient number.

But other phones overcome that in their UI by letting you send the
same SMS to multiple people. It's a pretty basic usability thing.

ric

On Nov 29, 11:25 am, Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
> On 2007-11-29 11:15:53 +0000, pjwalt...@nospamdsl.pipex.com (Phillip
> Walters) said:
>
> > Has anyone found a way to forward anSMSmessage, cant see anything in
> > the manual and no obvious way presents itself on the phone. Am I missing
> > something obvious ?
>
> AniPhone-owning friend of mine has mentioned this to me - he says it's
> not possible. Hopefully a future software revision or something will
> sort the problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Ian

Think you're misunderstanding. Not an auto-forward, a manual
forward. Autoforwarding (like an SMS divert, if you will) isn't
possible as part of the GSM spec (although a lot of smartphones can do
this with additional software, just not semi-smart ones like the
iPhone). The problem is if you receive an SMS and think "ooh, bob
would like to see that" you can't manually forward it to anyone.
You'd have to C&P it. This seems like such an obvious oversight that
I'd imagine it was left out accidentally - I can't see why adding it
would have given Apple any problems, in much the same way I can't see
why they wouldn't have the ability to send an SMS to multiple people.

Ian McCall

On 2007-12-03 10:40:06 +0000, ric <publicmail@infobubble.co.uk> said:

> On Nov 29, 11:25 am, Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>> On 2007-11-29 11:15:53 +0000, pjwalt...@nospamdsl.pipex.com (Phillip
>> Walters) said:
>>
>>> Has anyone found a way to forward anSMSmessage, cant see anything in
>>> the manual and no obvious way presents itself on the phone. Am I missing
>>> something obvious ?
>>
>> AniPhone-owning friend of mine has mentioned this to me - he says it's
>> not possible. Hopefully a future software revision or something will
>> sort the problem.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ian
>
> Think you're misunderstanding. Not an auto-forward, a manual
> forward.

That's what I meant. By "not possible" I should have said "not possible
with an iPhone" perhaps, and made things more clear.


Cheers,
Ian

Simon Slavin

On 02/12/2007, Sarah Brown wrote in message <kopb25-
mue.ln1@narcissus.dyndns.org>:

> Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co. uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >> You also can't address an SMS to multiple recipients.
> >
> >Same problem: the standardised GSM language has no way to give multiple
> >recipients for an SMS. It has one 'space' to enter one recipient
> >number.
>
> But other phones overcome that in their UI by letting you send the
> same SMS to multiple people. It's a pretty basic usability thing.

Sure. By using software in the phone. /Not/ by having the phone tell the
teleco that the message has multiple recipients. And that means that one
message sent to five recipients will cost the same as five different
messages.

The same is true of forwarding SMS messages: the phone itself can be
programmed to do it. But if your phone is turned off, or out of contact
with the network, nothing will happen.

Simon.
--
http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk

Simon Slavin

On 02/12/2007, Sarah Brown wrote in message <kopb25-
mue.ln1@narcissus.dyndns.org>:

> Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co. uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >> You also can't address an SMS to multiple recipients.
> >
> >Same problem: the standardised GSM language has no way to give multiple
> >recipients for an SMS. It has one 'space' to enter one recipient
> >number.
>
> But other phones overcome that in their UI by letting you send the
> same SMS to multiple people. It's a pretty basic usability thing.

Sure. By using software in the phone. /Not/ by having the phone tell the
teleco that the message has multiple recipients. And that means that one
message sent to five recipients will cost the same as five different
messages.

The same is true of forwarding SMS messages: the phone itself can be
programmed to do it. But if your phone is turned off, or out of contact
with the network, nothing will happen.

Simon.
--
http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk

Simon Slavin

On 02/12/2007, Sarah Brown wrote in message <kopb25-
mue.ln1@narcissus.dyndns.org>:

> Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co. uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >> You also can't address an SMS to multiple recipients.
> >
> >Same problem: the standardised GSM language has no way to give multiple
> >recipients for an SMS. It has one 'space' to enter one recipient
> >number.
>
> But other phones overcome that in their UI by letting you send the
> same SMS to multiple people. It's a pretty basic usability thing.

Sure. By using software in the phone. /Not/ by having the phone tell the
teleco that the message has multiple recipients. And that means that one
message sent to five recipients will cost the same as five different
messages.

The same is true of forwarding SMS messages: the phone itself can be
programmed to do it. But if your phone is turned off, or out of contact
with the network, nothing will happen.

Simon.
--
http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk