Cell phone to send SMSs?

[Ehud Karni]

On Tue, 17 May 2011 23:12:05, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the cheapest (or just a cheap one) GSM phone with a
> USB interface that is supported by a Linux program to send SMSs?
>
> In other words, I want to write a program to monitor various
> conditions and then send me an SMS if they out of the proper range.
> I'm looking to spend as little money as possible.

We use a bluetooth phone (An old Nokia 6230) with the gnokii software
for receiving and sending SMSs (and also tracking incoming Rings).

For sending SMSs only, I think a cheaper solution is to use an Internet
SMS gateway (We use UNICELL).

Check "sms gateway israel" in google.

Ehud.


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