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Hi All,

I've been waiting ever so long to buy the P1i, now that it's finally dropped to a price thats affordable (for me), I'm looking to buy it next month.

So far feature wise its been great, more or less does everything I want.

I do have a question though, which I have seen asked a few times, but I didn't see a clear cut answer.

Is the P1i able to send and receive faxes? via a third party free app perhaps? I figured it be really handy for me to be able to receive faxes or something fax a purchase order from my phone, as the Nokia communicator series can do this.

Appreciate any replies, cheers

PS: Has anybody tried Google Doc's on the P1i yet?

Kinson
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Posted: 2008-05-25 15:59:11
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There's an option when you compose sms that says "send as fax". But you can't attach pictures, so I'm not sure what good it would do (or if it works). I guess it's probably just not implemented (along with various other things). So the closest would be some sort of fax to e-mail service. Or an operator dependent "notify" and web- based service, at least for receiving. (Which isn't what you'd choose for receipts or contracts, and so on, maybe..).

I faxmachines.
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Posted: 2008-05-25 16:24:53
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Thanks for the speedy reply

So does that "send as fax" work if I just send as text? Meaning I could probably just fax a SMS to their fax machine, kinda.

Any fax is better than no fax, so thanks for the info

To be very honest, I don't see why faxing should be such a hard issue to implement. I'm not an expert on this (I barely know how to use fax, but when I do use it, i love it!), but as far as I know, faxing is same as making a call..kinda, it just makes the appropriate noises to the machine...so I don't see why handphones can't emulate that easily....unless it needs some kinda fax modem.

Cheers,
Kinson
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Posted: 2008-05-25 16:44:30
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If you text a fax machine and it works let us all know.
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Posted: 2008-05-25 17:00:21
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Yes, I'd like to know if it works, too

.. And it would've been awesome to do this with an mms- template (say, two lines of text on a page, and a picture scaled to a4..).

(And no, it's not difficult to implement. But.. it has to be implemented. And through the wonder of the Telecom business, that..... *cough*)
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Posted: 2008-05-25 17:12:02
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@LondonLad123:

Haha, sure. I promise I'll try that out within the first 24 hours of me getting my paws on my new P1i (be prepared to wait for a month or so though!).

Cheers,
Kinson
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Posted: 2008-05-25 17:51:45
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