Re: Phone Info Dialog

>>We should even be able tointerrogate the phones to find the ESN/IMEI 
>>and then label them "Jack's Phone" "Jill's Phone" etc.
> 
> Where would users enter such info, the Settings panel?

Once we can auto-detect the existence of a phone, we can then get
the unique identity for it.  We need somewhere to store config
information.  The two choices are as a compressed file on the 
phone itself, and in the config database of the host machine.
If we can't find either then we can prompt the user for the
name of the phone and some settings (eg first last or last
first).

Those settings need to be available to various routines,
with appropriate defaults.

>>Imagine a dialog that has fields for carrier, manufacturer, model, 
>>com port etc.
> 
> Hopefully, the detection scheme would work well enough so that we don't 
> need any of those info.

True.  Working out the carrier will be interesting :-)

> For now, I'd like to start by adding a simple Phone Info dialog with 
> some basic phone info such as: Manufacturer, model, phone #, firmware 
> version, signal strength/quality, battery level, and other misc info.

Go for it!

Roger


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