Hi, I believe any cellular coverage required GPRS or similar low bandwidth data connectivity, which should be used to do what you need. It will be slow, but it will work. Regards, Shushu
On 25 אוקטובר, 01:46, CWD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > > > Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, > > 2009http://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
