Hi Marcel, > why does the user have different needs here? Where are these needs > coming from?
You want real life user cases? :) OK, I give you some. Personally nr 1 is my favourite one as that is such a common thing to happen. 1) Have you ever been drunk and written stupid messages you really don't want to reach their destination the next day anymore if they have not already (maybe you wish they never would have reached the destination but all the mistakes can't be prevented..) 2) You have a situation that you want to buy something important and there are two options of which you prefer other one. You can not reach the guy with preferred option via call so you send a message, but you want to be sure that you know the situation before the other offer closes. Of course the preferred option's seller expects you to make the commitment right away for purchase so text message can not be sent in vain. 3) Example from the wonderful world of Internet: http://www.developershome.com/sms/sms_tutorial.asp?page=basicConcepts > How does a normal user actually know what this means for him and the > network he is using? The normal user knows this by reading the manual if he does not understand it directly when seeing the setting in the device. And if there is a chance that network does not support all features that device can offer, a disclaimer about that can be added to manual or help files. > Is the network actually honoring these values at > all these days Whether the network is honoring this case or not is not the issue here. If such would be the reason for dropping features then many things would never get completed when people would just discuss who should do what first. I have not met a situation at least in Finland where network does not support it, but I have not made comprehensive study about this. If the network does not follow the request then that is a network issue and should be handled through other channels. The truth is that if oFono does not allow this setting through the API, then devices using oFono have no means to offer this choice to its users even if the network would support it. One more thing, Meego also has a requirement about this in Featurezilla: Feature 4564 - [FEA] Cellular - SMS Validity period BR, Miia ______________________________________________ ofono mailing list ofono@ofono.org http://lists.ofono.org/listinfo/ofono _______________________________________________ ofono mailing list ofono@ofono.org http://lists.ofono.org/listinfo/ofono
