As I've said, I've never tried with vCards, sorry. As far as I know,
many phones recognize a text message that starts as "BEGIN:VCARD" as a
vCard (That's not EMS of course!) and Nokia has it's own
implementation over SmartMessaging (binary) or //SCKL (text). Neither
are EMS also.

I've read that the EMS vCard support was added later on the EMS specs
so they are not _so_ widely supported, but I cannot assure you the
feasibility for that info...

I've googled around a little and I've easily found the EMS white
paper. As I've told you, NowSMS have also many forum postings with
examples of EMS (not vCards but ringtones and picture messages).

Here is the white paper:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jidlaw/pages/emswhitepaper.html

I think there is only one vCard format for EMS, the other formats
dancing around are Nokia implementations and simple text (not
delivered over EMS anyway)

EMS was developed by a consortium formed by Siemens, Motorola, Sony,
Ericsson and Motorola. All those brands usually support EMS messaging
and all treat the data the same way, so there _should_ be no EMS
differences between them... I hope ;)

Hope it helps,



On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:10:30 -0600, Baden de Bari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> But for vCards, don't different manufacturers have different header
> specifications?  As I'm still new to this, I need a bit more detailed info
> :).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alejandro Guerrieri" 
> To: "[email protected]" 
> Subject: Re: UDH Headers for different manufacturers? 
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:47:08 +0100 
> 
> > 
> > Baden, 
> > 
> > EMS is supposed to be an standard, so all manufacturers _should_ use 
> > the same headers. 
> > 
> > I've never tried with vCards and vCals, but I did tested delivery for 
> > Ringtones and Logos and I've always used the same headers for all 
> > manufacturers (and it worked). 
> > 
> > EMS headers are somewhat cumbersome because they include content 
> > length and other "niceties", but there are lots of info about it 
> > available on the internet. Try the NowSMS forums (there are some 
> > examples for RT's) or even the EMS consortium white pages (if you like 
> > the techie reading). 
> > 
> > Hope it helps, 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:15:55 -0600, Baden de Bari wrote: 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'd like to start playing around with EMS, but need the proper UDH
> header 
> > > info for sending things like vCards and vCals. Is there a list of
> headers 
> > > for different manufacturers? Once the header text is set, is the 
> > > hex-encoded message the same for all 
> > > manufacturers, or does this require different formatting? 
> > > 
> > > 
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