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S60 handset as a fax modem with a Mac?

11 May, 2007 - 03:41 — Sami

My significant other suddenly has found herself in a situation where she needs to receive faxes. Like most Finns today, we do not have a landline anymore.

Has anyone succeeded in using a mobile handset as a fax modem (even just for receiving) with a Mac? If not, do you have experience of online fax reception services with international coverage?

Thanks in advance for any tips!

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21 May, 2007 - 13:51 — Anonymous

Nokia/S60 phones as faxmodem

Unfortunately not many S60 devices supports to be used as faxmodem anymore.

These models of Nokias phones have built-in support to be used as faxmodem:

Nokia 3650
Nokia 3660
Nokia 6110
Nokia 6210
Nokia 6250
Nokia 6310i
Nokia 6510
Nokia 6600
Nokia 6650
Nokia 7110
Nokia 7610
Nokia 8310
Nokia 8850
Nokia 8910
Nokia 8910i
Nokia 9110i
Nokia 9210i
Nokia 9300
Nokia 9500

21 May, 2007 - 19:31 — Sami

Thanks for the list

Thanks for the info (where did you find the list?)

As a fallback, we signed up with Popfax.com, and initial experiments seem encouraging. We seem to be able to send & receive OK, and Popfax even gave us a local fax number.

11 May, 2007 - 15:28 — Anonymous

have you seen following @Apple ? l/i

ups first response on Database Crash was wrong :-(

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301077

Greetings from Germany
Bernd

14 May, 2007 - 13:03 — Sami

Apple instructions

Thanks, I've already followed these instructions, and at least sending a fax will not work. The fax gets queued but the queue will tell me that each fax is to be resent after 5 minutes or so. The console logs will not offer much help either -- the fax is just not going through.

And the emphasis in our case would be on receiving faxes -- has anyone had any luck on this front?

18 May, 2007 - 21:36 — Anonymous

Depends on the phone model

Hi!

I've been using fax sometimes with my Nokia 6600, OS X 10.3.
Sending worked, Receivinng untested.
Newer models, especially the E-Series have new hardware which has no fax capabilities anymore.

Gerhard from Germany

gh.nospam@gmx.de