Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Why T-Mobile picture messages are resized

Found an explanation for why TMobile messes with your picture messages:



http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1064299&highlight=prepaid



So the problem is that T-Mobile is doing this intentionally in their MMS gateway. There are a couple of hacks to get around this, but they are non-trivial.



There's a slight difference between MMS (multimedia phone messages) and emails, which is why sending a picture as an "email" gives different results.

Friday, May 5, 2006

Cell Tower Mapping

I ran across this about six months ago, forgot where.

http://www.cellreception.com/towers/

Also has an area to post notes on cell phone dead spots.I've also noticed that many carriers are improving their onlinecoverage maps, but these tend to show "signal strength" by broad areaswithout explicitly depicting the location of towers...