shushu wrote: > I am looking for a way to send/receive faxes from Android. Since this > is basically a phone, I believe that it should be possible to use it > as a "fax machine", which can "talk" to standard fax machines.
Standard fax machines are analog devices, IIRC. Modern mobile devices, including Android ones, are digital. Those are two great tastes that don't taste so great together. Case in point: once upon a time, instead of tethering a mobile phone to a notebook to surf at 3G speeds, you would tether a mobile phone to a notebook to dial out to a dial-up ISP. That worked OK for analog cell phones, but once things moved to digital, it worked only for very slow speeds. As I understand it, the digital signal tends to get compressed during transmission, which subtly changes the signal enough that the analog encoding used by modems (and faxes) breaks down. As another example, if you have VOIP at your home or office, you have to get a special VOIP line for faxing, simply so the VOIP provider does not provide compression on that line and therefore does not screw up the faxing. Of course, Android can interface nicely with any Internet-based fax solutions that offer some sort of API. So you might be able to generate a fax on the device, send it to the fax provider, and have them actually fax it on your behalf. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, 2009 http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
