Marcel Kilgus writes:

>> A friend of mine may just have won his court case thanks to an SMS he had
>> the foresight to keep! (Mine are more likely to get me into trouble, but
>> what the hell! Id like to keep them all the same ;)
>
> Wow. I mean even I can send any text message with any sender-number
> attached to it by directly dialing the Vodafone SMS gateway using
> appropriate software. At least I used to be possible to do this,
> haven't tried in some time (the possibilities for mischief are endless
> of course).

You know too much for our own good ;)

However, the case was more complex than I was able to describe without 
venturing way off topic. Anyway, in Norway now service providers are 
required to keep much better track of sms messages than before.

>>> Huh? Even my 3 year old Siemens S55 can do that just fine. Backup
>>> (phone or SIM memory), restore, sending of messages. All possible
>>> through the PC software.
>> Just check that it will actually save your text messages on the PC, 
>> 'cause
>> thats the one that seems to be as rare as hen's teeth.
>
> No need to check, have done that often enough. Cannot imagine any
> Siemens phone not being able to do this. Same with Nokia, even my
> ancient 3210 could do that, IIRC. It's just a question of the right
> software.

Well my mobile guru can do it directly from software on his fone, and the 
one Ive got certainly cant, although it can do every useless thing 
imaginable otherwise.

>> This one has a blutooth COM port, but for some unfathomable reason it has
>> set its heart on COM10!. Will check if other software has grabbed the 
>> lower
>> ports and try to change it.
>
> High COM ports are not unusual for Bluetooth. But why is that a
> problem? Even QPC can handle up to COM32 ;-)

ahh, had forgotten about the mapping ;)

Per 
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