Yes, but (certainly on my phone) it cuts the GPRS while you do so.
Fair enough, mine doesn't, must be a limitation either with your
handset or your network provider (I would expect its just the
handset trying to maximize battery life and radio usage, as you
arn't entirely likely to be needing to use it while on a call
rather than being a limitation of GPRS), does yours send incoming
calls to voicemail as Rachael says hers does when you are doing
GPRS transfers?
Generally GPRS behavior depends on the specific tower cell you are
connected to on your GSM network. Some are built to prioritize data
over voice (incoming calls will go straight to voicemail), others are
built to prioritize voice over data (GPRS/EDGE connections will be
put on hold or dropped). Most field-test type apps will actually
tell you which cell type you are connected to.
T-Mobile's network, for instance, is primarily (perhaps even
entirely) the latter; if I was on via AgileMessenger and someone
called me, when the call was done, Agile would have lost all
connections. (This has happened to me many a time.) AT&T's is
primarily the former; if I were using Agile on AT&T's network, calls
would go straight to voicemail while I was online.
AT ANY RATE, the nature of how to implement GPRS on a GSM network is
very off-topic for this list. The only reason I brought it up was to
query if the bandwidth-sparing file transfer suggestion was
suggesting something similar, turning your existing XMPP stream
temporarily into a data stream, then returning to normal usage. So,
let us not get derailed... back to file transfers! :)
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