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Long weekend in Poland, a lot of time... I have finally found time to play with gammu.org and software.

First few words about site:

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Holidays after me. Few comments:

• I have put my diploma work about data/user authorization in computer systems (in Polish language) into my www. PDF file with it has got some interesting features: included inside attachments, index, bookmarks,... (all done with free software)

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Do you know what ?

Michal speak about new API for Gammu and I have new idea too ;-). Currently MMS can have many files inside. Let's make decoding SMS using the same stuff.

Do you want to have text inside ? Add one "file" with "text/plain" MIME type. Nokia Smart Messaging bitmap ? One "file" with bitmap/gif... etc. etc.

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I would like to pronounce new MileStone release:

20060521 - 1.06.15
[+] new -smsname for --savesms
[+] partial support for decoding EMS text formatting
[+] 6170/7270 ID                                                      (unknown)
[+] Series 60 1 and 2 devices:
    * added compiled gnapplet 0.6.12 (and source 0.6.2)
    * new connection "bluerfgnapbus"/model "gnap" (stable) and new
      connection "irdagnapbus"/model "gnap" (experimental) for communication
    * implemented:
      * identification
      * getting phone time

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Evolution or revolution ?

We had this topic visible here few times. I want to return to it again.

Let's show few things. First Microsoft. Do you remember problems with joining two Windows families (one started with Windows 95 and one with Windows NT) ? We had Windows 2000, which wasn't the best for users, but finally company released Windows XP and it was big success. Now we hear about Vista incompatibilies and part of reports say clear - because of it may users won't be interested in getting new OS for longer time.

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Few facts:

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I decided too, that Gammu bugs should be added to Michal's bug tracker. Expect disabling Gammu project in bug tracker on gammu.org soon

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Well, I have decided to write few words after reading Michal's blog and some other... First facts.

In first Nokia phones with GPRS (like 8310, 6310, 6310i, 6510, 3510 and maybe some other) phone was able to display "G" char instead of char displayed below network level. It was clear, that phone is in continuous GPRS session and downloading some data won't be connected with starting new session (in many networks connected with new money for operator). If phone end GPRS session after leaving WAP browser or data connection (no "G" char), it had disabled continuous GPRS sessions (it was done for example after upgrading firmware in service). Simple "gammu --nokiasetphomenus" "repaired" it.

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Many personal notes and joined with it notes about development...

• new Gammu+ (for example SMS support for Series 40 3.0 phones) available. I planned it few days earlier, but... The same I planned new test Gammu in previous week, but still want to make some things with it...Please give me day or two (definitely I should make everything during this week)...

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very short news from me: I'm working hard on new release. Decoding EMS and some other SMS features already work, I'm testing/writing EMS editor + EMS packing functions. If everything will go fine, Gammu+ will have soon support for such EMS functionalities:

Text formatting: YES
Predefined sounds: YES
User-defined sounds: YES
Predefined animations: YES
Large pictures: YES
Small pictures: YES
Object Distribution Indicator: YES
Variable pictures: YES
User Prompt Indicator: YES
User defined animations: DECODING

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Few new things:

• I'm thinking a little about last wiki change about hacking... it looks to be stupid joke, but...

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My comment to http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/05/15/why_do_people_buy_non_document... :

you are generally Michal right. Well documented hardware = less problems...

But: very often people buy, what they know and what is compatible with their other hardware (like memory cards). Sometimes not well documented hardware is much better than documented. I remember times of Nokia 3310. You simply didn't have cheap and so good phone...

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First: I hope, that this report (and each next) will start discussion on mailing list and here...

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Gammu

Siemens & OBEX improvements, added support for new SMS formats, updated ID for some Nokia models.

Released as test source tarball.

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Gammu+

Released as test source tarball and win32 binary builds.

What is available now ?

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Again, some ''blog'' and some project related things.

Project:

Gammu 1.08.25 - mainly Michal's work, a lot of stuff for SE devices and OBEX, it must be tested & bugs removed now. I hope, that you will give a lot of feedback to Michal. There some other fixes too...

In Michal's code I had to remove strndup (replaced with malloc + memcpy) and make shorter file names (to 8+3)

Blog:

"Moim największym marzeniem było zbudować stabilną firmę, w które ludzie będą chcieli tworzyć świetne produkty. Wszystko inne schodziło na drugi plan. Pewnie, dobrze jest mieć zyski, bo to właśnie pozwala robić świetne produkty. Ale motywacją były właśnie one: produkty, a nie pieniądze."

"Niektórzy mówią: "Dajmy klientowi, czego chce". Ale to nie jest moje podejście. Naszym zadaniem jest ustalić, czego klient będzie chciał, zanim tego zapragnie. (...) Ludzie nie wiedzą, czego chcą, dopóki się im tego nie pokaże"