I’m the lucky owner of a “Qtek 9100″ mobile phone so I decided to try out Microsofts Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK by creating a simple SMS application for it. Actually I made this because a BIOS upgrade would wipe out all information including my sent and received SMS’s and I like to keep all my conversations.

After downloading the SDK I took a look at the samples included and they were pretty cool. Using just a couple of lines it was possible for me to intercept an SMS and do whatever I wanted to do with it - powerful stuff. I wrapped this up in a real simple application which would create an XML document of the “SmsMessage” class and perform an “Insert” request on a new “IqSms” service (based on a custom schema) using a core Iquomi web service. The full code is less than 30 lines and now whenever I receive an SMS it will automatically forward this to my Iquomi store where it’s possible for me to see it. Later it should be no problem to attach an XSLT and make my SMSs viewable in a nice format but for now it’s just inserting information so I’m able to work on it later.

So 30 lines of code in all, less than 20 minutes of development time and you have SMS backup through Iquomi .. that’s pretty cool
Here’s a screenshot of the Iquomi iqSms subscription data if you would like to see how it’s stored.