[BitPim-user] Got a GSM Phone? Wammu is amazing

[Justin G. <jus...@gm...>]

I was looking around sourceforge for a decent and free contact manager, and
found something called "ericsson desktop", which claims to be capable of
sending sms directly from a computer using the phone. The description says
"Ericsson Desktop it is the complex utility for work with SonyEricsson
phones Editing of contacts, sending and reception of SMS, T68i and T300
theme creation and editing,adjustment of parameters of the phone,phonebook
manager" which is very intriguing. Just think of all the useful things you
could do with that! I wonder, is there an equivalent cdma software that can
send sms messages, and dial your phone for you?

Also after some further looking around I found some more interesting
software:

Wammu. This originates from Europe so it mainly supports GSM phones, except
for the Nokia 3205 cdma phone. Their web phone database has a neat feature
where you can find phones that support what you want (Phone information,
Sending and saving SMS, Basic phonebook functions (name and phone number),
Enhanced phonebook entries (eg. several numbers per entry), Calendar
entries, Todos, Filesystem manipulation, Reading and making calls, Logos,
Ringtones, Multimedia messaging). So if you've got to have certain pc-sync
features, it makes a great buyers guide. Wammu is the gui frontend to the
gammu daemon, which is where the rubber hits the road as far as phone
support. Also it runs on Windows and Linux afaik.

http://wammu.eu/



floAt's Mobile Agent. FMA is a SMS Manager, Mobile Phone Monitor, Remote
Control Agent, Phonebook Manager, Organizer, Fun and much more; whatever you
want it to be, it is whatever a mobile phone should have :-) (Currently
based on Sony Ericsson features set).


ObexTool

ObexTool is a graphical frontend for ObexFTP which is able to communicate
via the Obex protocol. Siemens S45, S45i, SL45i, SL45, M50, C55, S55, C65,
C65V, Ericsson R320, T68i, T300, Ki700, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6670
have been reported to work.


All these well-supported GSM phones makes me wonder why can't a computer
make calls and send SMS through CDMA phones? Is it because of the big,
greedy US phone companies or the network design?