New SMS notification service: Arrived OK

petkow · **New SMS notification service: Arrived OK -** 25-03-2009, 10:42

A tool for travelers to instantly notify friends and family when you arrive at your destination
ArrivedOK.mobi

I think this might be an interesting but not particularly useful idea. It is a paid service and doesn't even appear to be that cheap! The idea is that it somehow monitors a foreign network, and the moment that you switch on your phone in the destination country, and it registers into a network, a nominated list of recipients gets some pre designated SMS notification. All it really does is save you typing an SMS to that paranoid family member. However, how many paranoid family member does the average person have?

If you chose to do it the old fashioned way, you can chose to send the SMS at a socially acceptible time for the recipient. There is also of course the cheap work around, where the paranoid family member sends you a blank SMS inflight, and then the moment you land, he/she gets the delivery notification. (Incidentally, I wouldn't be surprised if this is just how their system works... i.e. their SMS gateway sends you an SMS, and waits for a delivery notificaton!)

I haven't thought this through, but there may be other potential uses for this service. I think the Arrived OK SMS can be customized and contains your new location, so perhaps a notification could be sent to a server for puposes of changing a callback number to a local SIM or something along those lines.

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	New SMS notification service: Arrived OK - 25-03-2009, 10:42 A tool for travelers to instantly notify friends and family when you arrive at your destination ArrivedOK.mobi I think this might be an interesting but not particularly useful idea. It is a paid service and doesn't even appear to be that cheap! The idea is that it somehow monitors a foreign network, and the moment that you switch on your phone in the destination country, and it registers into a network, a nominated list of recipients gets some pre designated SMS notification. All it really does is save you typing an SMS to that paranoid family member. However, how many paranoid family member does the average person have? If you chose to do it the old fashioned way, you can chose to send the SMS at a socially acceptible time for the recipient. There is also of course the cheap work around, where the paranoid family member sends you a blank SMS inflight, and then the moment you land, he/she gets the delivery notification. (Incidentally, I wouldn't be surprised if this is just how their system works... i.e. their SMS gateway sends you an SMS, and waits for a delivery notificaton!) I haven't thought this through, but there may be other potential uses for this service. I think the Arrived OK SMS can be customized and contains your new location, so perhaps a notification could be sent to a server for puposes of changing a callback number to a local SIM or something along those lines.