Text Message

"pb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> hi everyone,
>
> well, i've tried my#@messaging.sprintpcs.com, and my#@sprintpcs.com, (via
MS
> outlook) with no message to my nokia 3588i. i'm on the SPCS f&f plan.
>
> i CAN receieve messages from messaging.sprintpcs.com (website). and i CAN
> send a message from my nokia to my email address (outlook).
>
> calls to 2 CSRs said that i either a) can't receieve emails with a nokia,
or
> b) i have the wrong plan.
>
> looking for the help from this knowledgable NG to assist,
> thanks,
> parker

You've seen some excellent replies here. I'd add one thing. If you trying
sending a TM via Outlook, Outlook will also send header information within
the TM and you could be exceeding the allowable # of characters with the
header information included.

If all you want to do is send a quick & short TM, i.e.: 36 characters or
less and that's including spaces between words, send a TM via Outlook via
###########@messaging.sprintpcs.com (xxx... is your telephone number) and
just put the message in the subject line. It works as I just did it, and one
does not need to open Vision to read it.

Bob

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He has a voice phone not a Vision phone, therefore I don't think he has
a user name and can not send or receive e-mail.

"Jerome Zelinske" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> That phone is not on the Sprint PCS web site anymore so I can not check
> the specific features, but the accessories section lists it as a voice
> phone, not a Vision phone. IIRC it should not send or receive any
> e-mail. The csrs were right about that. IIRC it should receive text
> messages from the Sprint PCS web site (from the opening page, click on
> the "Send a text message" link at the bottom of the page), and from
> Sprint PCS Wireless Webb phones. I was not aware and was surprised to
> hear that it could send a text message to an email address.

Jerome ... you should have checked the Nokia site before posting the above.
The phone is capable of TMs per the following page -
http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/3588i...feat:1,00.html

Bob

Jerome Zelinske wrote:
> He has a voice phone not a Vision phone, therefore I don't think he
> has a user name and can not send or receive e-mail.

Jerome, I assume you are speaking to me. But it would be nice if you had
the courtesy to quote.

In any event, I did not bring up sending email. (Though the original
poster said he successfully sent one from his phone.) I merely explained
the process and that [email protected] couldn't possibly work.
It's not my fault SPCS disabled the browser that the phone contains.

But that's not the issue: text messaging is, and his phone is indeed
capable of using it. The only issue is whether he can send a TM as email
to the phone, like I and probably thousands of others do all of the
time. The phone is certainly capable of it. So if sending email to
[email protected] does not work SPCS doesn't want it to
(just like the browser); merely to position the phone--at the time--as a
low-end model and for those who whine, "all I wanna do is make calls."


--
Mike

"Tinman" <[email protected]> wrote in news:3ecic9F2es2nU1
@individual.net:

> danny burstein wrote:
>> In <[email protected]> "Tinman"
>> <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> pb wrote:
>>>> hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> well, i've tried my#@messaging.sprintpcs.com,
>>
just send it to your 10 number phone number

one bit of info i'll add as i con't attempts, i have gotten the following
message...

WARNING: COULD NOT SEND MESSAGE FOR PAST 4 HOURS
Mail Delivery Subsystem [[email protected]]
**********************************************

** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **

** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **

**********************************************

The original message was received at Tue, 10 May 2005 11:12:25 -0500 (CDT)
from msa2-mx.centurytel.net [209.142.136.132]

----- Transcript of session follows -----
<[email protected]>... Deferred

Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until
message is 5 days old

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since i see this message is generated by my ISP, that means it's not even
making to the sprint server?

Jerome Zelinske wrote:
> He has a voice phone not a Vision phone, therefore I don't think he
> has a user name and can not send or receive e-mail.

but he should be able to receive SMS text messages.

On the other hand, someone should probably go look at sprintpcs.com and see if
the 3588 is listed as a SMS (text-messaging)-capable phone.

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Jerome Zelinske wrote:
> That phone is not on the Sprint PCS web site anymore so I can not
> check the specific features, but the accessories section lists it as a
> voice phone, not a Vision phone. IIRC it should not send or receive any
> e-mail. The csrs were right about that. IIRC it should receive text
> messages from the Sprint PCS web site (from the opening page, click on
> the "Send a text message" link at the bottom of the page), and from
> Sprint PCS Wireless Webb phones. I was not aware and was surprised to
> hear that it could send a text message to an email address.

http://phonescoop.com/

search for 3588

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Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / [email protected] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED

"The wisdom of a fool won't set you free"
--New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"

Like I said in one of my earlier posts, that model is no longer listed.
I think it should get Text Messages, whether or not they are SMS I do
not know.

i have a nokia 6016 as well, and it doesn't perform any differently, yet on
the spcs website it says...

sms text messaging capable: instantly send and receive sms text messages
across the room blah blah blah...






"Jerome Zelinske" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Like I said in one of my earlier posts, that model is no longer listed. I
> think it should get Text Messages, whether or not they are SMS I do not
> know.

"Jerome Zelinske" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Like I said in one of my earlier posts, that model is no longer listed.

Yet, there are a number of sites which do list the phone, including the
manufacturer, which has the last say in the matter.

> I think it should get Text Messages, whether or not they are SMS I do
> not know.

They are..

Bob

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> well, i've tried my#@messaging.sprintpcs.com, and my#@sprintpcs.com, (viaMS
> outlook) with no message to my nokia 3588i. i'm on the SPCS f&f plan.
>

pb, look for another post from me in another thread. There's a setting
for this at the Sprint PCS web site. And a big, wet, fart-smelling
raspberry to the techs for not even mentioning it. There's a tool we
used when I worked there called the "BMG". We had a GUI for it that
including the same three check boxes you'll find on the web site.
Somehow, I doubt they even looked. The 3588i has SMS, and email
[email protected] works for any phone with SMS *or* the
older Shortmail.


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A thing moderately good
is not so good as it ought to be.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue,
but moderation in principle is always a vice.
+Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792+

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
> but he should be able to receive SMS text messages.
>
> On the other hand, someone should probably go look at sprintpcs.com and see if
> the 3588 is listed as a SMS (text-messaging)-capable phone.
>
Look like you've already been told, but yes, it is.
--
RØß
O/Siris
-+-
A thing moderately good
is not so good as it ought to be.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue,
but moderation in principle is always a vice.
+Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792+

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> That phone is not on the Sprint PCS web site anymore so I can not check
> the specific features, but the accessories section lists it as a voice
> phone, not a Vision phone. IIRC it should not send or receive any
> e-mail. The csrs were right about that. IIRC it should receive text
> messages from the Sprint PCS web site (from the opening page, click on
> the "Send a text message" link at the bottom of the page), and from
> Sprint PCS Wireless Webb phones. I was not aware and was surprised to
> hear that it could send a text message to an email address.
>

The 3588i was the first non-Vision phone to be able to use the "new" SMS
feature. And yeah, emails sent to [phone#]@messaging.sprintpcs.com get
received by the 3588i as SMS messages.

--
RØß
O/Siris
-+-
A thing moderately good
is not so good as it ought to be.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue,
but moderation in principle is always a vice.
+Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792+

First, should be 10 digit phone number @ messaging.sprintpcs.com (ie
[email protected])

Second, this is infact a problem with the mail server at your ISP. I had a
DNS problem preventing e-mails being sent to Aol.com on mine before.

Bill

"pb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> one bit of info i'll add as i con't attempts, i have gotten the following
> message...
>
> WARNING: COULD NOT SEND MESSAGE FOR PAST 4 HOURS
> Mail Delivery Subsystem [[email protected]]
> **********************************************
>
> ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
>
> ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
>
> **********************************************
>
> The original message was received at Tue, 10 May 2005 11:12:25 -0500 (CDT)
> from msa2-mx.centurytel.net [209.142.136.132]
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> <[email protected]>... Deferred
>
> Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until
> message is 5 days old
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> since i see this message is generated by my ISP, that means it's not even
> making to the sprint server?
>
>