In the last week I’ve been working with sending and receiving SMS messages using a mobile phone connected to the computer. For that I had to use something that I was familiar with back in 1995/1996…. AT Commands .

So far I’ve used:

I must say that the worst phones for this task are the most expensive . The P990 and the E50 both use the Symbian OS, and as far as I can tell they do not support the AT+CMGL for listing or the AT+CMGR for reading messages.
The Siemens uses some other protocol BUT there is the scmxx software that works fine getting and sending messages.
The 7250i is a bit strange. AT+CMGL=”ALL” for listing all messages gives an error. And the AT+CMGL just lists new messages, after that will output an empty list. Also I had to play with AT+CMGS=”ME” for it to fetch messages from the internal memory. AT+CMGS=”MT” gives an error, although AT+CPMS=? reports that it exists…

The Nokia 6210……. Just works…. They don’t make them like they used to…….