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webchalkboard has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there,
Does anyone know if there are any perl modules for connecting to mobile phones?

Thanks,
Tom

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Re: mobile phone Perl modules
by idsfa (Vicar) on Sep 27, 2005 at 14:33 UTC

    Perhaps you need to be more specific about what you mean by "connect"?


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Re: mobile phone Perl modules
by davidrw (Prior) on Sep 27, 2005 at 14:27 UTC
    What brand/model of phone? You'll probably do much better searching (googling) for a specific phone/model .. cpan search for phone isn't too useful, but something like nokia could be ...
Re: mobile phone Perl modules
by webchalkboard (Scribe) on Sep 27, 2005 at 14:47 UTC

    Sorry about the vague nature of the question, i'm interested in building an application that would let me connect from my PC to my phone and download my text messages.

    Maybe the Bluetooth socket module will point me in the right direction, thanks i'll take a look at it now.

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