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| RE: How to determine if device has wireless connection? |
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Fri, 2 May 2008 12:56:37 +0200 |
Hi Folks,
I think that this is a VERY bad idea.
Take, for example, my GF. She has had a Treo 650(now a GSPDA M70), Wireless
enabled - but no Internet contract as of now(f*** T-Mobile Austria).
If your app automatically assumed GSPDA M70=GPRS box=data available, she'd
run up insane costs(6 Euros/MB) very swiftly...which would guarantee you of
her lifelong love to your products!
IMHO, asking the user works best. Hey, even Palm itself did so with their
Palm.net service - IMHO, the wireless char still is in the ASCII set ;).
Just my 2 cents though
Tam Hanna
http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com
>"Bill MacAdam" <bill_macadam@mindspring.com> said:
>You might consider identifying the device by using the manufacturer and
>model ids that are on the device. This page
>http://www.mobilegeographics.com/dev/devices.php provides a fairly complete
>list. The set of devices that have wireless connectivity is relatively
>small so you could just see if the device is in the list and continue from
>there.
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