They mean if you use your phone number's text email address for the push notifications the notification they send is formatted to fit nicely in a SMS/Text message, am not sure if they also format all other push emails that way now or not.
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They mean if you use your phone number's text email address for the push notifications the notification they send is formatted to fit nicely in a SMS/Text message, am not sure if they also format all other push emails that way now or not.
My guess is it knows your email address is a phone based on the 6 digit number. THerefore, simply reformats for a phone.
This company is just spot on.
/me waits for some whiner to complain "but what if my email address actually is 1234567890@gmail.com?"
PS. you meant 10 digit number I'm sure!
/me waits for some whiner to complain "but what if my email address actually is 1234567890@gmail.com?"
PS. you meant 10 digit number I'm sure!
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It's just a 2 part email. We don't parse the email addresses. Should work fine regardless of your email address. HTML emails on the phone will show the button and be formatted, SMS emails will be text only.
There is an issue with SMS notification on AT&T. Basically unicode characters won't show up correctly on AT&T, so if someone sends you a message in Russian or Japanese, the text will come across garbled on AT&T SMS, but this is an AT&T email to SMS problem... Out of our hands.
Presumably the SMS will come across on other carriers that have to deal with unicode characters more frequently, maybe someone out there can verify?
MobileChat were putting up smoke and mirrors touting SMS notifications as a feature where simply it was AIM's servers that can be setup to SMS you if you are away/offline and get IM'd by someone. The notifications people are referring to as SMS here with Beejive are emails sent by the Beejive server to an email address that forwards the email as a text/SMS to your phone number.
This should work for all IM protocols and I can state for a fact that it works for me on MSN, Google Talk and Yahoo IM with XXXXXXXXXX@txt.att.net, so maybe it is something with your provider?
Note: Theoretically MC would be able to be setup to use the same email->text address and send the same alerts but that would require their service to actually work as advertised and for them to switch the email notifications on as last I looked they hadn't flipped the switch to lighten the load.
Does it really matter what it sends? I don't even read the messages just open Beejive when i get the notice. Aslong as it buzzes then that's good enough for me.
I guess it would matter for those with a set number of text messages on their plan where received messages count against their plan.
Oh, okay. I thought incoming SMS were free. I guess they charge maybe in the USA same as for incoming calls? If so I certainly see the complaint.
Correct here in the USA received texts along with received calls are charged, which boggles the mind especially when you can get both unsolicited.
Then again it is sort of offset because most American carriers give weekends and evenings free nation wide. As far as I know I have never seen that here in Europe.
AT&T is 5000 nights and weekends, which is basically unlimited. We also have rollover minutes.. Anytime minutes we dont use, go to the next month.
To all you new beejive buyers......welcome aboard!!!
i hope good quality apps like beejive will help change all these juvenile notions that just because most of the apps on the iphone are free, .99 or under 9.99, that anything greater than that is simply a rip off.
devs put untold hours of work into their products and quite frankly should be rewarded, especially when they roll out products such as beejive that sets an excellent high standard for future apps to match, but beejive did it right out of the gate with version 1.0 unlike 99% of the apps out there where quality was sacrificed in the dev's rush to market to simply make $$$$
i hope good quality apps like beejive will help change all these juvenile notions that just because most of the apps on the iphone are free, .99 or under 9.99, that anything greater than that is simply a rip off.
devs put untold hours of work into their products and quite frankly should be rewarded, especially when they roll out products such as beejive that sets an excellent high standard for future apps to match, but beejive did it right out of the gate with version 1.0 unlike 99% of the apps out there where quality was sacrificed in the dev's rush to market to simply make $$$$
I had my push set to a yahoo mail account yesterday. I switched it to push by sms to my att number, and finally switched it to that mail2web.com email service with exchange. Now when i get messages when beejive isnt open i am getting some messages to my email, and some are still going to my sms. I am also getting email pushes from beejive when i am logged into my AIM and GTalk screen names through meebo.com while i am at my desk. Anyone else encountering this problem? Whats going on here beejive?! im a loyal beejive customer ever since my blackberry over a year ago, and have been waiting for this app since i got my iphone last year. I hope, hope, hope, these issues will be resolved with the next update...and even with these minor possible bugs...I LOVE THIS APP!