interfacing mobile to a microcontroller/PC

Hi guys,

   Is there any way by which I can interface a mobile phone to a
microcontroller or PC ?

 I am working on a hobby project where my objective is to ask the
mobile to send
 an SMS to a particular number.  I have a PC/microcontroller that would
some how
 direct the mobile phone to send some specific message to a specific
number.

 Alos, if some message is recieved on the mobile, it should send the
contents along with
 the sender number to PC via some interface, where the message will be
stored in PC harddisk
 or microcontroller memory.

 Is there any way this can be done ?  Is there any I can interface the
mobile to a PC or
 some microcontroller.

 Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks for any help in advance ....

junky_fellow@yahoo.co.in wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
>    Is there any way by which I can interface a mobile phone to a
> microcontroller or PC ?

Which moble phone ??

Which country ??

If your in the US, I have not found any phone here that can send 
messages by an off the shelf cell phone and serial cable.

This looks interesting, but I have not used it:
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=757


> 
>  I am working on a hobby project where my objective is to ask the
> mobile to send
>  an SMS to a particular number.  I have a PC/microcontroller that would
> some how
>  direct the mobile phone to send some specific message to a specific
> number.
> 
>  Alos, if some message is recieved on the mobile, it should send the
> contents along with
>  the sender number to PC via some interface, where the message will be
> stored in PC harddisk
>  or microcontroller memory.
> 
>  Is there any way this can be done ?  Is there any I can interface the
> mobile to a PC or
>  some microcontroller.
> 
>  Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks for any help in advance ....
> 

Donald wrote:
> junky_fellow@yahoo.co.in wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >    Is there any way by which I can interface a mobile phone to a
> > microcontroller or PC ?
>
> Which moble phone ??
>
> Which country ??
>
> If your in the US, I have not found any phone here that can send
> messages by an off the shelf cell phone and serial cable.
>
> This looks interesting, but I have not used it:
> http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=757
>
>
> >
> >  I am working on a hobby project where my objective is to ask the
> > mobile to send
> >  an SMS to a particular number.  I have a PC/microcontroller that would
> > some how
> >  direct the mobile phone to send some specific message to a specific
> > number.
> >
> >  Alos, if some message is recieved on the mobile, it should send the
> > contents along with
> >  the sender number to PC via some interface, where the message will be
> > stored in PC harddisk
> >  or microcontroller memory.
> >
> >  Is there any way this can be done ?  Is there any I can interface the
> > mobile to a PC or
> >  some microcontroller.
> >
> >  Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks for any help in advance ....
> >

WinCE / Symbian / Brew / other Mobile Headset OS have some SDK/toolset
for doing this.
You just need to do some Application level programming on the Mobile
side and an application in the language you prefer on the PC side.

Need to understand some basics about SMS via google and Understand the
setting up of the
development environment for your mobile.

Best Regards,
Karthik Balaguru

"junky_fellow@yahoo.co.in" <junky_fellow@yahoo.co.in> writes:

>    Is there any way by which I can interface a mobile phone to a
> microcontroller or PC ?

You can interface some models to a serial port or USB. You can also
interface to a celluar provider over the Internet for sending SMS to
other phones. Here's an API description from one of the local
providers here in Norway:

https://netcom.no/bedrift/tjenester/pcsms/smsbedriftapi_techndoc.pdf

Petter
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junky_fellow@yahoo.co.in wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>   Is there any way by which I can interface a mobile phone to a
> microcontroller or PC ?
>
> I am working on a hobby project where my objective is to ask the
> mobile to send
> an SMS to a particular number.  I have a PC/microcontroller that would
> some how
> direct the mobile phone to send some specific message to a specific
> number.
>
> Alos, if some message is recieved on the mobile, it should send the
> contents along with
> the sender number to PC via some interface, where the message will be
> stored in PC harddisk
> or microcontroller memory.
>
> Is there any way this can be done ?  Is there any I can interface the
> mobile to a PC or
> some microcontroller.
>

You should look for a GSM/GPRS phone which has a serial port
in the accessory connector.

Many such devices has "data cables" which can be connected
to a serial port of a PC - Or your embedded system.

Then you need to send AT commands to the Phone.

There are GPRS module available where most of this stuff actually is 
documented...

> Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks for any help in advance ....

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Ulf Samuelsson
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Peter

<junky_fellow@yahoo.co.in> wrote in message 
news:1164094931.723507.91940@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi guys,
>
>   Is there any way by which I can interface a mobile phone to a
> microcontroller or PC ?
>
> I am working on a hobby project where my objective is to ask the
> mobile to send
> an SMS to a particular number.  I have a PC/microcontroller that would
> some how
> direct the mobile phone to send some specific message to a specific
> number.
>
> Alos, if some message is recieved on the mobile, it should send the
> contents along with
> the sender number to PC via some interface, where the message will be
> stored in PC harddisk
> or microcontroller memory.
>
> Is there any way this can be done ?  Is there any I can interface the
> mobile to a PC or
> some microcontroller.
>
> Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks for any help in advance ....
> 

Ulf Samuelsson skrev:
> You should look for a GSM/GPRS phone which has a serial port
> in the accessory connector.
>
> Many such devices has "data cables" which can be connected
> to a serial port of a PC - Or your embedded system.
>
> Then you need to send AT commands to the Phone.
Exactly! Look into the GSM/3GPP specification called TS 27.005 and find
what you need.

http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/27_series/27.005/27005-700.zip

Br
Thomas