h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

can u get the guide acess on your cell phones using sms messeges? if so how do u do it, if not... well why?

Using sms messaging costs money. That'll be the why not.

It used to be possible to get access using a WAP phone, but because of legal agreements signed by the bbc before they took on the Guide that become no longer possible.

There is a project by a few coders called inject2g2 which provides a scaled down version of h2g2 for palm top computers and in a way for WAP phones.

How would you use SMS for the guide? Would it just tell you someone has replyed to your post, etc.?

Tango

no i was thinking you could send in what u were looking for in the guide, like a search. and it would send u the entry. but ohh well

Aren't most guide entries too big to be sent in text msgs?

Tango

Where can I find more info on injecth2g2? I've tried searching with google but came up with nothing...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A809705

Of course it never occurs to me to use the h2g2 search engine.

We are looking into whether we can have h2g2 available on wap phones, but I don't think they use SMS technology.

They don't.

Simply, WAP is very similar to normal internet access, except scaled down to restrict the amount of data that has to be sent through the air.

SMS is a method of sending text strings.

It *is* possible to write the scripts to recieve requests sent by SMS and then send out the relevant information, but it's usually not worth it. SMS is limited to something like 140/160 characters, I think. And is pretty much one way. No cookies, everything done server side, and a lot more hassle than it's worth.

It would be nice to see h2g2 made available for phones again though. What with the way phones are going...