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Consumer Products => Avast Mobile Apps => Avast Anti-Theft for Android => Topic started by: NON on May 03, 2012, 08:20:43 AM

Title: Feature Suggestion: Use shorten URL or use E-mail instead of SMS
Post by: NON on May 03, 2012, 08:20:43 AM
Hello,

Today I try to LOCATE my phone to test its functionality, then I got broken SMS that contains invalid URL like "https://ta-m.avast.com/maps.srv?l".
I found its cause, some Japanese cell-phone carriers (including mine) uses non-standard SMS systems (100/140 bytes maximum) so the length of reply exceeded this limit.

So here I suggest to add settings to use shorten URL, or to use E-mail instead of SMS.
Also this could avoid troubles regarding translations, because translated SMS strings could be longer than original and exceed SMS limit.