Mobile

November 11th, 2008

CECT cell phone, it’s getting more and more popular on the
internet right now, you can see then on eBay, youtube and other online advertisements.
Actually CECT cell phone is owned by QXMC Corporation, a leading domestic manufacturers
of mobile handsets in China.

The most typical CECT cell phones are big touch screen, Iphone alike appearance,
dual SIM card supported, well equipped speakers, extremely long standby and
talk time and the all-in-one features. And the main reason why CECT are getting
popular, it’s because of the price, it costs USD 100 something, and you can
get a brand new cell phone with 1 year warranty. It shines with its price and
quality.

There are many CECT cell phones that you can name, the most popular one is P168,
as it has been considered as the Iphone clone, and many people trying to compare
it with Apple Iphone, so it makes a hot topics before. For the other models
like HIPHONE, A8, A380I, 599 and K530i, they inherit the features from P168,
always with a big touch screen, 3 to 3.5 inch, support dual SIM card, Bluetooth
and internet browser. The speakers are always well-equipped, surrounded sound
system with 6 speakers installed, you can make it a portable mp3 player anytime
you want. And it brings a new technology on some cell phones, it’s the shake
control, which means that you can simply shake your cell phone to change the
wallpaper and songs.

Even CECT cell phones have advantages on it’s price and quality, but there are
some disadvantages that we should know, you can’t upgrade the firmware for your
phone or install any software on it, and most of the CECT cell phone doesn’t
support java game, so there is no way to play java games on the phone.

So if you are planning to buy a CECT cell phone, ask your seller some more details
before the real purchase to avoid any misunderstanding.

Premium SMS

November 11th, 2008

The maximum single text message size is either 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters. Characters in languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese or Slavic languages (e.g., Russian) must be encoded using the 16-bit UCS-2 character encoding (see Unicode).

Larger content (Concatenated SMS, multipart or segmented SMS or “long sms”) can be sent using multiple messages, in which case each message will start with a user data header (UDH) containing segmentation information. Since UDH is inside the payload, the number of characters per segment is lower: 153 for 7-bit encoding, 134 for 8-bit encoding and 67 for 16-bit encoding. The receiving handset is then responsible for reassembling the message and presenting it to the user as one long message. While the standard theoretically permits up to 255 segments, 6 to 8 segment messages are the practical maximum, and long messages are often billed as equivalent to multiple SMS messages. See Concatenated SMS for more information.

WAP

November 11th, 2008

WAP Push is a method of sending personalised, interactive messaging or advertising to a WAP Push enabled device.

There are two efficient means of proactively sending (”pushing”) content to a mobile device: by the Short Message Service (SMS) or by the mobile device maintaining a permanent GPRS (mobile originated) session with the content server.

There are two types of WAP Push message – Service Loading (SL) and Service Indication (SI), and the experience encountered when receiving a WAP Push message varies considerably for each type, depending on the mobile device:

an SL Push message could initiate a WAP session to download additional information (such as a WAP page with images or an application) without user interaction (as long as the mobile device settings are set to enable such actions).

SL Push message functionality is technically very similar to MMS – the first the user may know is after the content has been downloaded.

a SI Push message could consist of a simple WAP page with an action that will require user interaction (e.g. a link to a page on a Web server).
(Note that no session will have been established with the WAP gateway until the user makes an action.)

The following diagram shows the transaction flow of a SI Push message.