USSD on iPhone

Originally posted on February 2, 2008 in Russian.

Reposted in May to demonstarte the use of USSD.

Played with iPhone a few days ago. Installed 1.1.2 firmware. From what is new I found that USSD Phase 2 intractive dialogues are now supported. One should have expected something like that because firmware was released for the launch in Europe. And as we know, our colleagues from Cellicium made a USSD portal for Orange. Orange, most likely, had pressured Americans to add support for USSD in the new baseband which comes with 1.1.2. I checked USSD functionality on MTS portal *111# which we are developing. Here are the screenshots. Read more

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