On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 08:18 +0300, Marechiare wrote:
> solarwind wrote:
> Here on the list someone from Toronto said he could easily find
> nearest pizzas etc with his HTC Diamond Google Maps. Why do you need
> wasting your precious time on developing another solution? Is the
> mobile internet realy that expensive?

That may have been me.

I too once was developing an SMS based solution to these sorts of
problems. I did it through an SMS-email gateway, I'd sms an email to an
address, my server would receive the email, interpret the commands and
if appropriate issue a response back through the email-SMS gateway.

It never got much out of an alpha stage, but it did work. I soon however
gave up on it and just bit the bullet and got a data plan, haven't
looked back since. It is so amazingly useful that I would give up many
other things now before I'd give up have what amounts basically to a
whole internet connected computer in my pocket 24/7.

TTYL

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