piAccess Link adds AT commands to Symbian OS

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piAccess Link adds AT command support to Symbian phones for SMS and phone book retrieval. This allows you to access text messages and contacts over Bluetooth from a PC with standard AT command software (such as piAcess Mail). Features include support for both incoming and outgoing Bluetooth serical connections, reading and deletion of all SMS (sent or received), reading of contacts and access to additional phone information such as the IMEI.

piAccess Mail allows you to access text messages via a POP server (thus allowing you to receive your text messages in any mail program such as Outlook, Thuderbird or Eudora).  A UIQ version of piAccess Link is now available with S60 and Series 80 version in development. piAccess Mail is available for both Windows and Linux with an OS X version in development.

Author's Description:

piAccess Link enables Symbian OS users to access their SMS messages and contacts from their personal computer using Bluetooth and any standard AT command compatible software.

Symbian OS phone users, with piAccess Link can finally access, backup or manage SMS text messages and contacts trapped in their advanced Symbian OS smartphone from Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Now, thanks to piAccess Link, using popular phone manager applications such as FMA and MegaCell X, as well as piAccess Mail, lets you simply get and keep all your SMS text messages and phonebook contacts forever.

There is no need to even 'synchronise', piAccess Link lets you access your SMS and phonebook data any time you want.

piAccess Link for Symbian OS phones:

    * Lets you access your phone's text messages and contacts over Bluetooth from any personal computer.
    * Adds AT command support to Symbian OS for SMS and phonebook retrieval.
    * Enables listing, reading and deleting of SMS messages.
    * Supports retrieving read, unread, sent and draft SMS messages.
    * Supports reading of phonebook contact records.
    * Supports both incoming and outgoing Bluetooth connections.
    * Gives you control to dissalow incoming connections for SMS and phonebook access.
    * Advertises its service via Bluetooth SDP for easy connection.
    * Enables reporting of the phone's IMEI and IMSI(*) numbers.
    * Enables reporting of signal quality. (*)
    * Enables reporting of battery charge. (*)
    * Provides custom AT commands to list/read SMS messages with phonebook integration.
    * Adds custom AT command to read phonebook records with multiple phone numbers and/or email addresses.

        (*) not supported on all phones.
 

Press Release: 

piAccess BREAKS THE LIMITS OF YOUR SMS
London, - January 10, 2006 – Pragmaticomm Limited introduces piAccess.

piAccess removes the barriers on the use of messages and contacts on mobile phones, especially Symbian OS™ devices. piAccess makes text messages available to standard Email applications, so that a user's messaging is unified in one place and archiving is now simpler. A mobile phone's memory size is no longer a limit to how many messages can be stored forever by the user.

For Symbian OS™ phones, piAccess adds support for the industry standard method – AT Commands – of sharing SMS and contacts between the phone and computers or other devices. piAccess also implements several openly documented extensions to this standard, allowing third-party Windows™, Linux and Mac OS X™ application authors to provide more features for Symbian OS phone owners.

piAccess consists of two components:

piAccess Link for UIQ based Symbian OS™ allows users to access their contacts and text messages from their Windows™, Linux and Mac OS X™ Bluetooth-enabled computers using their favorite phone manager applications as well as piAccess Mail.

piAccess Mail for Windows™ and Linux computers makes text messages available on any standard Email program such as Outlook™, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora™ and many others. From now on, text messages can simply exist together with the user's emails.

For more information visit http://www.piAccess.com/ Developers can connect now by visiting http://www.piAccess.com/trac/wiki/Developer