Funny thing is that in the most recent software we put in loads of effort to make an "overseas mode" which would allow the end user to configure their own mail service and ISP phone numbers etc. with a view to being able to sell the units overseas (or even domestically) at a small upfront hardware profit and then no ongoing usage costs (cos you got to say which phone number it would call for email) but the "suits" then decided not to make use of this facility. Ho hum.
Cliff
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin O'Donovan [mailto:kev@coastalcontainer.co.uk]
From what Cliff said, it sounds like it will. It's a real
shame there isn't an option to buy an unsubsidised one, but I can see why amstrad might not want to take that route. If my emailer had been dialling out daily since I bought it, it would have cost me about £250 by now, since it was about £100 to buy back then.
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That's a shame..... I do wonder how many people are prepared to pay this daily call...... I know I'm not. I suppose a lot of people will take a while to twig what's actually going on.
While the mobile phone analogy works to a point, it's now a primarily usage based charging model, and anyway, mobiles have a network to support. Maybe if Amstrad had gone for usage rather than affectively daily rental plus usage charges, they may have sold a few more.
Great shame, but it's back in the box, I think ..... glad I only paid £20 for it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Lawson" clawson@amstrad.com To: "'Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software'" e3-hacking@earth.li Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 1:02 PM Subject: RE: [E3-hacking] E3 Emailer
Funny thing is that in the most recent software we put in loads of effort to make an "overseas mode" which would allow the end user to configure their own mail service and ISP phone numbers etc. with a view to being able to sell the units overseas (or even domestically) at a small upfront hardware profit and then no ongoing usage costs (cos you got to say which phone number it would call for email) but the "suits" then decided not to make use of this facility. Ho hum.
Cliff
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin O'Donovan [mailto:kev@coastalcontainer.co.uk]
From what Cliff said, it sounds like it will. It's a real
shame there isn't an option to buy an unsubsidised one, but I can see why amstrad might not want to take that route. If my emailer had been dialling out daily since I bought it, it would have cost me about £250 by now, since it was about £100 to buy back then.
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Damn shame. I write software for a worldwide shipping group, and the list of people I might phone is huge, as is the average length of a telephone number. The emailer's address book would be ideal for my office phone.
Kev
-----Original Message----- From: Cliff Lawson [mailto:clawson@amstrad.com] Sent: 17 July 2006 13:03 To: 'Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software' Subject: RE: [E3-hacking] E3 Emailer
Funny thing is that in the most recent software we put in loads of effort to make an "overseas mode" which would allow the end user to configure their own mail service and ISP phone numbers etc. with a view to being able to sell the units overseas (or even domestically) at a small upfront hardware profit and then no ongoing usage costs (cos you got to say which phone number it would call for email) but the "suits" then decided not to make use of this facility. Ho hum.
Cliff
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin O'Donovan [mailto:kev@coastalcontainer.co.uk]
From what Cliff said, it sounds like it will. It's a real
shame there isn't an option to buy an unsubsidised one, but I can see why amstrad might not want to take that route. If my emailer had been dialling out daily since I bought it, it would have cost me about £250 by now, since it was about £100 to buy back then.
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