CWD wrote:
I am also looking to see if anyone is working to develop
a dial-up application so you can retrieve your e-mail even when
there
is no 3G or EDGE coverage or simply you don't want to pay for the
data plan.
I have this feature now on the Nokia 9290 which runs Symbian OS
and
most windows based handests have this abilitry, so I don't know
if it is a
question of analog vs digital. Yes it will be very slooooow.
On Oct 2, 6:50 am, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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