Reviews for Mobile Application Development with SMS and the SIM Toolkit: Building Smart Phone Applications (Professional Telecom)

1. I useful (but brief) introduction

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2007

   This is a fairly well written introduction. But it is only that, an introduction. Better suited to managers than developers.
   
   Don't expect this book to allow you to decode or create messages; you need the (freely downloaded) GSM specs for that. Check the 11.14 SAT spec before buying as that's relatively readable for a GSM spec and if you can understand it then this books not worth it. If you can't, it is.

2. Fascinating, helpful, unique book but could go further

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2002

   Guthery and Cronin have set out to explain a fascinating and useful area of mobile phone technology, which has the potential to make the phone in our pockets a much richer source of information and fun (without waiting for 3G which may never come). If you want to develop applications that run on phones, you should read this book. The book's code fragments and "hex" dumps of what should be going on inside the phone are invaluable, but they are incomplete -- it would be great if the authors' source code was available for download from a website.

3. The SMS Standard

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2002

   A useful book on this scarcely written about topic, but a lot of it is filled with just reguritation of the international SMS standard, although he does explain it well.