bike alarms that send msg to your cell phone?

[r6girl]

i did a search on alarms here, looked through the first 3 pages of search results (sorry, i couldn't take it anymore), and didn't find any specifics. i see these advertised in the british bike magazines all the time, but have never heard of them in the u.s. that's probably a sign that they're not available here, but i thought i'd check around anyway...

anyone know of a motorcycle alarm that can send a text message to your cell phone to alert you when it's being tampered with?

i know of the ones that come with a little pager (that work only when you're within a certain radius of the bike), but i'm looking for one that will use the cell phone network so the message gets to you anywhere your cell phone works. for an idea of what i mean, see www.mstinternational.com - they do these alarms but in europe only :mad .

any information would be greatly appreciated!

marianne

 

[Sane_Man]

Here is the only system I could find.

Cycle Trak

 

[TylerW]

The british are obsessed with cell phone text messaging, they use it for just about everything, it's an established part of their phone service as much as things like voicemail are here. We still don't have a standard for text messaging, each network uses their own format, it's usually not translateable between networks. That's more than likely why we haven't seen it crop up here just yet.

Perhaps as more networks give up cdma/tdma architecture and move forward using GSM, this might be one change we can look forward to.

 

[r6girl]

sane man - thanks for the link! i'll be checking that out...

wintermute - the u.s. does seem to be a little behind/disconnected in cell phone standards than western europe. i sure hope we get things sorted out soon - not that i want to spend more time fixated on my motorcycle, but it would be nice to know if it's being tampered with when i'm not around.

marianne

 

[ksaintg]

Not that cdma is behind GSM at all... just very different. Actually, cdma is regarded as superior to gsm in many ways. Unfortunately the marketing for cdma didn't do near as well over there and now GSM is a way of life for europeans. Even worse is that the next generation cdma (CDMA-2000, right?) will be backward compatible with current US standards, but will not incorporate GSM. If i remember correctly, Japan's next-gen will be backward compatible with GSM.

All about ad compaigns and nothing with technological superiority. Kinda like Beta-max.

 

[slowpoke]

What happens when you can't get a signal???

 

[Eisernkreuz]

If you're having signal problems, chances are, you're not on Verizon. Verizon rules..get off Cingular and you'll be ok.