i don't know, but that would behighly probable. putting it on the firmware will
allow them to upgrade its capabilites
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>actually, what I wanted to find out is if the 51xx and 61xx series have
>modems programmed in the phone's firmware. sorry if I didn't make myself
>clear
>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: RE: Re: [plug] Linux, and GSM Phones
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> 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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