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04-04-2008, 06:27 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: melbourne
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telstra's pocketnews application now works on iPhone
hey all,
i can't go 5 minutes without knowing the footy scores, so i've been loving telstra's pocketnews application on my old phones. basically it was an application installed via the SIM that allowed you to request a sms that contained the requested news for 0.5 cents or similar.
not suprisingly, this didnt work with my iPhone... until today when i tried it again.. it now launches it's own application which works as expected!!
are telstra preparing their network for the iPhone?
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04-04-2008, 06:50 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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How exactly does it function? Does a PocketNews application show up on the homescreen?
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04-04-2008, 07:00 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: melbourne
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nope, under settings, then phone, then SIM applications, then Pocketnews, and it launches..
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04-04-2008, 08:30 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: melbourne
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because it's friday night and i'm sick as a dog at home, i took some pics
after going to settings, phone, you see the following menu, with SIM Applications at the bottom
open that and see pocketnews.. previously pressing that did nothing.. but now opening that launches..
the application.. you can choose from any of those as per the regular telstra app
that's sports scores.. AFL, NRL, and cricket
AFL teams to choose from
i dunno if this is custom written by telstra or what.. but it comes up with requested.. a "cancel" and "accept" button down the bottom
about 5 seconds later.. the SMS with your news!
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04-04-2008, 09:19 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Seymour, Vic.
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Cool! I just tried this out on mine. Works well (Although I didn't really need to see that Essendon V Geelong score again!)
Cheers!
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04-04-2008, 09:20 PM
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I'm crackin' skulls
Group: Forum Leaders
Location: Melbourne
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I wouldn't read too much into this - my Optus iPhone does the exact same thing with the PhoneBook Group and SMS Group applications, including a screen almost identical to the one in your second last photo (says "PhoneBook Group" instead of "PocketNews Requested", with the same cancel and accept buttons).
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04-04-2008, 09:25 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Probably the iPhone itself doing it more so then Telstra.
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04-04-2008, 09:28 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: melbourne
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Keving
Probably the iPhone itself doing it more so then Telstra.
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granted.. but it didn't work last weekend when i tried, nor the weekends before that.. and it works now..
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04-04-2008, 10:14 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Lancaster, UK
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Hah, I remember Pocketnews! I'd request news or tech reports to make it look like I was receiving and sending SMS messages. God, that was sad.
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05-04-2008, 02:26 PM
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Group: Member
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jeez, thats really scraping the bucket...
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06-04-2008, 07:28 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: melbourne
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find me another way to get live AFL scores on the iphone
afl.com.au is laden with flash, so it doesn't work
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06-04-2008, 09:28 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melb
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I used this ages ago when I first got my iPhone, it has always worked for me
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06-04-2008, 11:07 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PAddLePoP
I used this ages ago when I first got my iPhone, it has always worked for me
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Same here. Worked ever since I have had my iPhone.
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06-04-2008, 05:05 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: ...
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These are 'flash' SMS messages, are they not? Which means like many VoiceMail notification SMSes from various carriers, they delete or override the previous version of the message. They only started working with the 1.1.2 (or was it 1.1.3) update. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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06-04-2008, 05:12 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Newcastle
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When I got my iPhone back in October it always worked for me. Now I dont have an option for Sim Apps as I'm with Virgin. I dont miss it at all because I never used it apart from weather every blue moon. The weather app now does it cheaper and nicer 
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Originally Posted by Edge
These are 'flash' SMS messages, are they not? Which means like many VoiceMail notification SMSes from various carriers, they delete or override the previous version of the message. They only started working with the 1.1.2 (or was it 1.1.3) update. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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I have never seen, or even heard of, this kind of SMS message :S it never happened when I used pocketnews back in the day. can anyone shed some light on this as Im interested to find out if this is true or not, as i think this is not the case. |
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