If you've got a phone that can take and send PXTs you should be able to send photos to Vorb direct from your phone. We've been testing this functionality for the past few weeks and it works well for recent phones on Telecom and Vodafone.

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QUICK CONFIGURATION
Send a PXT to vorb[size=0].[/size]@[size=0].[/size]myssage.net and you should receive a TXT with the correct PXT 2 Vorb configuration settings.

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NORMAL INSTRUCTIONS
1.) Go to http://www.vorb.org.nz/ac-sms.html and fill in the relevant information.

2.) Send a PXT to vorb[size=0].[/size]@[size=0].[/size]myssage.net

3.) If your PXT is successful You should receive a TXT in about 5 minutes.

4.) View your photo at: http://www.vorb.org.nz/photos-album-all.html

5.) Those of you who use Mobile Vorb ( http://mobile.vorb.org.nz ) will notice an option appears to add PXTs to your posts.

Photos may take up to 5 minutes to appear. Tama has set up an error logger so we should have a fairly good idea about what is going wrong and why.

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SETTING UP YOUR PHONE
Your phone must be able to send PXT via e-mail (we haven't come across a PXT phone that can't). Because of the differences between Telecom and Vodafone PXTs we can not have it so you just send the PXT to a phone number.

To enable your phone to send PXT via e-mails check out these links:
Vodafone: http://vodafonenz.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ ... faqid=2657
Telecom: http://www.telecom.co.nz/content/0,8748 ... skiptocopy

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PHONES THAT HAVE WORKED SO FAR
Nokia N73, Nokia 6680, Sony Ericsson V800, Nokia 6265, Sony Ericsson K800i, Imate SP5, Sharp GX25, Sony Ericsson K750i, Nokia 6225, Sharp GX17, Nokia 3220, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6100, Nokia 6610, Nokia 5140i, Nokia 5140, Sony Ericsson V600i, Sharp GX15, Nokia 7360, Nokia 6070, Motorola E770v, Sony Ericsson K700i, Sony Ericsson V600i, Sagem MYV-55, Panasonic VS2, Sony Ericsson K750i, Sony Ericsson T610, Motorola 757, Nokia 6235, Motorola V525, Nokia 6235i, Nokia N70, Blackberry 8100, Nokia 3220, Nokia 3200
Please help us with troubleshooting by putting the full name and model of your phone here: http://www.vorb.org.nz/ac-sms.html

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TROUBLESHOOTING
The most common problems we've experienced so far are:

Incorrect PXT E-mail Address
If your phone number is 696969 your PXT e-mail address is most likely 6421696969@pxt.vodafone.net.nz for Vodafone or +6427696969@mms.xtra.co.nz for Telecom. If your photo hasn't appeared after 5 minutes send a PXT to your own e-mail and make sure that your PXT e-mail address is entered correctly here: http://www.vorb.org.nz/ac-sms.html


PXT Not Attached To E-mail
Some phones/ services send a link to the photo rather than attaching the PXT to the e-mail. These will not work, but you may be able to solve it by talking with your phone company. To test this send a PXT to your own e-mail - if you only receive a clickable link then it will not work with PXT 2 Vorb.


Big Photo Files
Some of the more expensive phones have high quality cameras that send very large files. We've found that shooting photos at 640x480 to 1024x768 gives the best performance for PXT 2 Vorb activities. These setting correspond to 0.3-1.0 megapixels. Your phone should have settings that allows you to adjust the size of your picture down to size. It makes things a lot faster to!

Note: Larger photos will be compressed and resampled by the Vorb server so sending them will not give you better quality.

mob: Like this!

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Sony Ericsson K700i works as well

So how does one make the pxt appear in the thread?

wgtngrl wrote: So how does one make the pxt appear in the thread?

Post from http://mobile.vorb.org.nz

(Which can be used by mobile phones or normal browsers.)

Oh I see... now I really wish I hadn't left my phone at home today

mob: Dammit, now I need to go buy a phone capable of pxting (and surfing - rather than using my web browser on the PC)

mob: Don't worry Tom doesn't even have a phone.

james_giant wrote: mob: Don't worry Tom doesn't even have a phone.

Does he still light fires by banging two rocks together?

Tama wrote:

james_giant wrote: mob: Don't worry Tom doesn't even have a phone.

Does he still light fires by banging two rocks together?

Is there a better way?

Updated List

Thanks to Nordy who's been testing various Vodafone phones.

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PHONES THAT HAVE WORKED SO FAR
Motorola E770v
Nokia 3220
Nokia 5140
Nokia 6225
Nokia 6680
Panasonic VS2
Samsung ZV10
Sony Ericsson K700i
Sony Ericsson K750i
Sony Ericsson T68i
Sony Ericsson V600i
Sony Ericsson V800
Sharp GX25
Please help us with troubleshooting by putting the full name and model of your phone here: http://www.vorb.org.nz/ac-sms.html

how much did that just cost my vodafone phone?

Big ups to the Benevolent Despot for this synergy of modern technology on what I assume is a kumara budget.

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I almost want to get a new phone now.

54M wrote: how much did that just cost my vodafone phone?

Depends on your plan - I can send a gigabyte of PXTs (around 5,000) for $49+GST a month.

Whatever the PXT rate is for the call plan you're on, most likely $0.20?

Nordy?