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| Unsolicited "Ringtone" message from tms.widelive.com |
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| message from Peter X on 24 Jun 2005 |
Hi all,
I've just received a text message that doesn't show any sender number,
just the title of "Ringtone" and the content is a link to
tms.widelive.com whoever they are!
The link is (query-string tweaked to protect the innocent):
http://tms.widelive.com/index.wml?id=205000e0000eee_00000&first=true
FYI I'm using an SE K599i on Orange.
I've not actually "read" the message, but have only selected the
"information" sub-menu option. I imagine that "reading" the message may
activate it or something?
I'm assuming the message came in via WAP or GPRS or something? Anyway,
my "Push" settings are "Allow push msg = Always ask" so surely if the
message actually *did* anything, then the phone would ask me first?
bloody technology.... I only bought a phone to talk to people !! ;-)
Regards,
Peter.
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| Brian Morrison replied to Peter X on 24 Jun 2005 |
But the networks want to sell you something that extracts as much cash
from you as possible. Didn't the contract refer to "their half" of
everything?
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| Peter X replied to Brian Morrison on 24 Jun 2005 |
LOL! Yeah I missed that bit of small print!
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| J@b.com replied to Peter X on 25 Jun 2005 |
I got this. The company is called the music solution. They have a phone
number http://www.themusicsolution.com/contact.htm which I phoned and was
put though to speak to a real person who I got to be cross at. And they
removed my number from their list.
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| Kevin I Chapple replied to Peter X on 24 Jun 2005 |
You mention "bloody technology.... I only bought a phone to talk to people
!! ;-)".
How does that work then??
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| Peter X replied to Kevin I Chapple on 25 Jun 2005 |
Its a feature that I believe to be unique to the SE K599i where the
device contains a built in microphone and speaker, thereby allowing the
user to *talk* and *listen* to another person!! Not sure if it'll catch
on though -- its probably one of those things that looks cool but in
practice you only use about once before going back to the usual text
messaging! ;-)
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| Kevin I Chapple replied to Peter X on 25 Jun 2005 |
Sounds interesting "PaterX". Are these units freely available? Do I need any
special equipment/network configuration, so that I am able to "talk" to
toher people?
Am I likely to find many others that have the same technology?
I guess it may be something like "3", where not a "great deal" of people
have this type of device?..
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| Dave Gill replied to Peter X on 24 Jun 2005 |
Yes, these spamming/scamming gits seem to pick mobile numbers out at
random. It's a "WAP Push Message". In your SE's Messages menu there
should be a sub-menu for Push - set it to Never Allow and you won't be
troubled by WAP Push Messages again. (Of course, if you actually want
to buy a downloadable ringtone from somewhere in the future you'll have
to temporarily re-enable WAP Push to do it.)
Would that be similar to the K500i by any chance? ;-)
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| Brian Morrison replied to Dave Gill on 25 Jun 2005 |
It's a K600i with a Pentium CPU core.
:-p
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| Peter X replied to Dave Gill on 24 Jun 2005 |
[ahem], yes it is very very similar!! :D
Thanks for the reply btw! I've now changed my push settings to disallow.
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| Jon replied to Peter X on 27 Jun 2005 |
Are you sure you don't mean a WAP push message? Not quite the same as a
text message.
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| Peter X replied to Jon on 28 Jun 2005 |
I honestly don't know what it was! I think (if I remember correctly) the
icon was slightly different to the normal text... [/me shrugs shoulders]
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