Major decisions made about my project: 1) SMS (Short Messaging Service) is a great technology candidate and should be considered my top choice at the moment, 2) T-mobile, as a service, is doing a good job of covering the technologies I want to cover with SMS, including a release of SMS on PocketPC "soon," and 3) Do a proof of concept of my, um, concept using text-only SMS for now; fine to demo with photos etc when the time comes.

Phew! That took forever. I am now carrying around a symbian (I think, not that it matters now) camera phone (Sony Ericsson T300), my PocketPC as well as my laptop on good days. The phones fit in nicely with what I'm trying to do. The only thing beyond my powers was porting over the old address book from my old phone. As of now, my configuration supports SMS and EMS, photos, an infrared link to my pc to transfer back and forth. Still to try out is infrared w/r/t internet access, and of course the T-mobile internet access itself. Also to try out is the PocketPC - phone infrared link. Folks must do this every night, get all their devices pointing to each other like little soldiers and synched up at nighttime via infrared, then off to bed in their chargers overnight.

Suspect this solution involves way too much digging into telecom, but I'm afraid of nothing after going through the windows API. Here are my next web sites (from the Tmobile developer web site. By the way, why are they still talking about WAP? Everyone is still talking about WAP as far as I can tell. Is it truly dead? We'll see)

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Our SMS resource links are a collection of links to HTML webpages that specialize in SMS information. From news and informations sites to SMS directory listings. 
 
allnetdevices.com
This site has a very thorough FAQ section and great examples of how to do just about anything with WAP. 
 
GSM World
Get all you need to know about GSM technology from gsmworld.com. This should be your first stop in learning GSM technologies. 
 
Oreilly Net
General developer information for J2ME, WAP, SMS, and Palm OS. 
 
WirelessDevNet.com
This site is devoted to providing up-to-date news about the wireless industry. The site is divided into channels so you can plug into what interest you.
 

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