how to send FAX with SonyEricsson k850 or k800 ?

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Roland Schweiger - 14 Nov 2007 16:05 GMT

Certainly, the need for sending faxes is almost outdated but i think of the
following scenario:

Hand-writing something on paper, taking a picture with the SonyEricsson
k850i
and then sending it via Fax to a fax machine.

This would require a software that converts the colour picture to
black-and-white / 200 dpi
and it would also require a fax-emulating-software.

Does such a thing exist, for instance as a JAVA application ?

greetings from Dresden in Germany

Roland Schweiger

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Evan Platt - 17 Nov 2007 16:49 GMT

>Certainly, the need for sending faxes is almost outdated but i think of the
>following scenario:
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>black-and-white / 200 dpi
>and it would also require a fax-emulating-software.

And it would require the phone to have hardware to communicate faxes,
which I'm not aware of any phone that does.

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John Henderson - 17 Nov 2007 19:05 GMT

> And it would require the phone to have hardware to communicate
> faxes, which I'm not aware of any phone that does.

All but the cheapest mobile phones have the low level hardware
and firmware to send faxes, a least by "remote control" from an
attached computer (attached by cable IrDA or Bluetooth).

They support a rich set of "AT+F" fax-related commands.

Roland is asking for software to reside on the phone and take
advantage of those commands, in much the same way as a mobile
phone uses its own low level SMS capabilities for text
messaging.

John

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Roland Schweiger - 17 Nov 2007 21:56 GMT

"John Henderson" <jhenRemoveThis@talk21.com> wrote to us the following

> All but the cheapest mobile phones have the low level hardware
> and firmware to send faxes, a least by "remote control" from an
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> phone uses its own low level SMS capabilities for text
> messaging.

That was EXACTLY what i was thinking about!
I know of the AT+F commands that could even be used with the CHEAPEST phones 10 years ago,
when you connected them for instance via IrDA to the notebook, you could then use the mobile phone as a
"fax machine" because Windows provided a virtual fax-modem
but the actual AT commands worked "inside" the phone and not on the virtual modem...

So i am thinking of some JAVA Midlet that can do the job,
i.e. converting the picture to black-and-white (with user definable threshold level) and then faxing it to a phone number.

Wondered if such a JAVA software is around, so far i was not very successful on search engines,
if such a thing doesn't exist, i wonder if i could get enthusiastic in trying to write such a thin myself,
as i am just about to "learn" Java...

greetings

Roland Schweiger

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