Integrating apps with messengers thru API

[Stephen Miller]

Thanks Thad.

Just out of interest here is a story. In about 1996 I was involved in a
project with the Optus system which was very new at the time. The network
engineers were all ex Telstra which was for a long time the govt controlled
monopoly.  They told me that at senior meetings inside Telstra - when the
specs for the new mobile service were finalised they  had the options to
allow text messaging or to disallow by default for all users. Apparently
they tortured themselves over this issue and most of the senior staff
couldn't think of any reason why someone would send a text message instead
of just ringing and leaving voice mail. They decided to turn it on by
default - not expecting much use. They put a stupid charge per message - I
think it was 25 cents!!!!!

Kind Regards,

Stephen Miller

0455461581








On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 at 12:52, Thad Bogert <thad at technosolver.com> wrote:

> Not sure if it’s available with your phone carrier, but many carriers in
> the states have an email gateway for sending messages.  i.e.
> 2485551212 at vtext.com <mailto:2485551212 at vtext.com>
>
> Perhaps you can create a trigger in your application to send an email?
>
> > On Mar 26, 2023, at 7:58 PM, Stephen Miller <stephenmiller1958 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > Have just about decided that I am going back to a Nokia Flip phone - and
> by
> > that I don't mean the expensive dual screen one but the updated old
> > flip phone we all loved. It is about the same size as the original and
> has
> > 15 to 21 days standby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On top of that you can just keep
> it
> > in your pocket and forget about it. (I hate phones).  You can still use
> > this phone as a USB internet emergency tether and it supports dual sim
> > cards. It is about 120 pacific pesos,
> >
> > The problem - I would like to integrate it with my desktop Windows 10
> > google environment so that I can use the calendar and alarms. In this
> case
> > just a simple sms service would be sufficient.
> >
> > Got me thinking I am sure someone has done large scale integrations for
> > corporates - courier companies etc - I would love to here how you did it.
> >
> > In my case initial research indicates a Samsung hidden API which
> > doesn't help me  but Google does have the ability to add SMS to Alarms
> and
> > Calendar entries so I will start with a simple integration first.
> >
> > Still love to hear what has been achieved.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Stephen Miller
> >
> > 0455461581
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