SMS?

[D. R. Evans]

Ignazio Palmisano said the following at 01/28/2008 04:11 AM :

>> The blurb for KMobileTools says:
>>
>> KDE application for controlling your mobile phone
>> KMobileTools is a nice KDE application that allows you to control your
>> mobile phone from your GNU/Linux PC.
>> It's based on a Motorola C350 and C650, but it's also compatible with
>> other mobile phones like Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Which doesn't sound at all like what I am looking for. I don't want to
>> control anything; I just want to be able send an SMS from the computer to
>> people's phones. It doesn't seem right that it should matter what kind of
>> phone they have, since SMS is SMS, regardless of the phone.
> 
> One of the functions is to send a new sms, I've been using it for that 
> :) sorry if it has unneeded functions
> I.
> 

But the text says that it's a way to control MY phone. I don't see the
point of that:

1. If the phone has to be connected the computer, it would be a whole lot
faster just to send the message from the phone directly
2. I have no mobile signal in my basement, where the computer is.
(3. I also don't know how to connect the phone to the computer; I bet it
needs special cables or something, which are doubtless expensive.)

I wish I had started this topic simply by asking what command people put in
the "SMS Text" configuration of Kontact. In fact, I thought at the time
that the question I asked was equivalent to that question, but I guess it
wasn't. :-(

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