Background I've been catching up on one of my favorite podcasts, recently: Tuxjam, and I just finished listening to Episode 120: Tunnels & Texts. In this episode, they were reviewing a FOSS app called Deku SMS which initially seemed to promise the ability to send photos by SMS (not MMS!), but that seemed to have been a theoretical/experimental feature that never got implemented. The guys (Kevie, Andrew, Dave, and Al) were excited by that possibility, but it was sadly a non-starter. Now, I'm no Claude Shannon, but I thought I would give it a go at mocking up a potential system for sending photos and other data via SMS. Now, don't get too excited: when I say mocking-up, I mean just laying out some theoretical groundwork. There's no app or even screenshots of this. There will, however, be a some sample images of what might be possible. Methodology Digging into the SMS Specifications as summarized by Wikipedia, it seems that SMS messages can be sent in one of several different text…
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