Hi Solarwind,

A bit sidetrack, you been working on Carbon for your iphone?

John

--- On Sat, 9/26/09, solarwind <x.solarwind.x@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: solarwind <x.solarwind.x@gmail.com>
> Subject: [OT] SMS Control
> To: "PICLIST" <piclist@mit.edu>
> Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 8:23 AM
> I recently bought a new cell phone
> (iPhone) but did not get a data
> plan because they are ridiculously expensive. I do,
> however, like many
> people, have a far more cost-effective unlimited text plan.
> I have yet
> to find a good interactive SMS (text messaging) service
> which you can
> interact with while on the go to obtain information. An
> example would
> be google sms service (the best one I've found), but even
> that needs a
> little work. Wouldn't it be awesome to interact with your
> computer via
> sms? Ask it to do stuff? Retrieve information (addresses,
> contacts,
> phone numbers, turn off your lights, that sort of thing)?
> 
> We need a way to communicate from the cell phone TO the
> computer.
> Fortunately for us, we have services like twitter and
> facebook which
> allow us to very quickly update our status or post a
> "tweet" via SMS.
> See where this is going? All we need to do is sign up for
> a
> twitter/Facebook account (and make it private) and write a
> very simple
> interface to check for twitter/facebook updates via SMS. We
> can then
> retrieve the text that was sent from the phone.
> 
> So, for example:
> 
> If you want to know the address of the nearest pizza pizza,
> you could
> write a simple program to fetch twitter/facebook updates
> and parse the
> text and perform a search action, for example. The
> possibilities are
> vast.
> 
> Once the information has been obtained, it is very easy to
> send the
> data back to the phone. One way is to email
> <your_phone_number>@carrier.com, as most carriers
> provide a free
> email-to-sms gateway. The phone then receives the
> information it was
> looking for.
> 
> You could also (theoretically) create a data-over-sms layer
> and encode
> the text in base 64 to get a (very) slow... um... Internet
> connection... I don't know if it's even worth mentioning
> since sms
> tends to take at least a few seconds to send/receive.
> 
> What do you guys think?
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