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blameyourelf
Joined: Jan 04, 2005
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Hi, just wondering if there is any difference in cost, or any advantage in using one or the other of these options. Obviously the O2 active allows you to send media messages, but is GPRS wap alone better if you're not bothered about mms?
I'm using o2 active at the moment (just got a new k700 last week on o2 pay monthly), and it seems like simple browsing is using more bytes than it should (1mb should allow about 1000 wap pages according to o2) at least according to the data counter on the phone (can't see what I've used so far on my online bill for some reason). |
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mkush
Joined: Nov 15, 2003
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From: UKSA
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Um mms's get sent via gprs?.. Dont they am i missing sumit ere?
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Rhino8
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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Mms use a gprs platform, but in south africa we get different gprs settings for mms coz we only pay for data sent and not like gprs where we pay for send and recieved data.
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MsJ
Joined: Dec 20, 2004
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Theyr all the same.My homepage stil says genie.co.uk but wil end up at o2 active. The mms mailbox just means u can send and recieve mms msgs, store photos and pictures etc without having a mms fone.
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MsJ
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Erm. . . Think yor answr has just been on bbc watchdog (18 jan)
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peanut
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On 2005-01-17 17:35:25, blameyourelf wrote:
Hi, just wondering if there is any difference in cost, or any advantage in using one or the other of these options. Obviously the O2 active allows you to send media messages, but is GPRS wap alone better if you're not bothered about mms?
I'm using o2 active at the moment (just got a new k700 last week on o2 pay monthly), and it seems like simple browsing is using more bytes than it should (1mb should allow about 1000 wap pages according to o2) at least according to the data counter on the phone (can't see what I've used so far on my online bill for some reason).
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Firstly don't do what a lot of people do and confuse WAP with the method of connection - it has nothing to do with it.
1) O2 Active os simply the over the top name for O2 wap portal or 'landing page'. It comes in two flavours:
O2 Active - everyone gets this it's fully WAP based delivering normal pages via your browser and can be shown B&W or colour depending on your handset. You can reach this via your GPRS or CSD (Circute Switched Data or Dial up via either 07 number or shortcode 915000 - mistaken for the term WAP) settings. You can also view it over WIFI on some PDA but that's another story.
O2 Active 2 - this is a small applet available for some Nokia phones, it requires a GPRS connection and delivers a menu driven system that is updated twice daily. Headlines and teasers scroll across the screen and you click to visit, normal charges apply.
2) To send MMS you must have GPRS tariff, normal CSD won't do.
3) On CSD connections (called Basic Wap on O2) you don't worry about the page size, just the call length.
4) On GPRS connections (called O2 Active on O2 - see the confusion?) the page sizes vary from anything to 1kb or 10kb (according to their site) BUT this is only for the pages they host via the portal. Go outside, say to BBC wap, and it's a different story. Come accross a full web page by accident and it's another story again - your usage will fly up.
5) Your meter on the phone isn't accurate by any means. I reset mine before I wrote this and the O2 landing page comes in at 24kb - it most certainly isn't that!
Hope that helps - if it hinders apologies. It doesn't help that all the networks like to use grand names for their (frankly useless) portals. |
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Posted: 2005-01-17 17:35
