both are functionally the same. however, the softmodem takes plenty of CPU cycles
compared to it's hardware brethen, and sometimes has issues with platform availabilty
(ie. nokia 51/61xx modem specs are not publicly available, therefore 3rd party
developers sometimes has to experiment/reverse engineer it first before they can use
it. unless of course nokia issues the specs out)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>so what can I do with a real modem that I can't do with a softmodem? does
>softmodem mean that it has a modem programmed in the firmware?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:15 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Re: [plug] Linux, and GSM Phones
>
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, eric pareja wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:43:15PM +0800, Ian C. Sison wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Pushing this discussion further, if ever a connection via serial port
>can
>>> > be made to a GSM phone, would it be possible to offer GSM-dialup
>services,
>>> > simply because it's cheaper to have a cel-cel connection rather than
>>> > landline-cell? THe concept is you dialing up to your own linux server,
>>> > using a palm connected to a 7110/62xx via IR, to a GSM phone hooked up
>to
>>> > your linux server...
>>>
>>> So what Nokia models can be connected via comm port to Linux? What's
>>> the cheapest model one can spend on to experiment with this kind of
>>> setup? Orly might have some leads and I'm too lazy at the moment to do
>>> the searching myself.
>>
>>AFAIK only the phones with WAP have a built-in GSM modem. That limits you
>>to 7110/62xx/88xx.
>
> the 51xx and 61xx series has softmodems
>
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