Mobile message type specification - VCard SMS
(SMS message type, SMS message format)

You can use this message type to send a business card to a mobile phone. You can include your name, phone numbers (home and work), your fax number, your e-mail and homepage address, the date of your birthday, as well as a note.

Why it is convenient

An electronic business card can be used to replace a business card made of paper. This way both the sender and the recipient are more environment-friendly. Also, having a business card stored in a mobile phone is more practical: the information as an SMS message in the phone is easier to store, organize, modify and handle than information on paper, and a mobile phone is more likely to be at hand at any time than a business card.

Message type

SMS:VCARD

The format of the message data is:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:family name;given name
TEL;VOICE;HOME:home landline phone number
TEL;VOICE;WORK:work landline phone number
TEL;CELL:mobile phone number
TEL;CELL;WORK:work mobile phone number
TEL;FAX:fax number
EMAIL:e-mail address
URL:homepage address
BDAY:date of birthday
NOTE:note text
END:VCARD

Look at an example:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Smith;Paul
TEL;VOICE;HOME:+440111222333
TEL;VOICE;WORK:+4413497545
TEL;CELL:+4420111000222
TEL;CELL;WORK:+440444555666
TEL;FAX:+4413497545999
EMAIL:info@info.info
URL:http://www.info.info
BDAY:19770304
NOTE:These data are not true!
END:VCARD
If you only want to include your name and your date of birth: 
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Smith;Paul
BDAY:19770304
END:VCARD

SQL example:

If you use the Database user to send and receive SMS messages with Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway, you can use the following SQL statement to send a VCard message: 
insert into ozekimessageout (receiver,msgtype,msg,status) values (’+36205222245’,
    ’SMS:VCARD’,’BEGIN:VCARD\r\nVERSION:2.1\r\nN:Smith;Paul\r\nTEL;VOICE;HOME:+440111222333\r\n
                 TEL;VOICE;WORK:+4413497545\r\nTEL;CELL:+4420111000222\r\nTEL;CELL;WORK:+440444555666\r\n
                 TEL;FAX:+4413497545999\r\nEMAIL:info@info.info\r\nURL:http://www.info.info\r\n
                 BDAY:19770304\r\nNOTE:These data are not true!\r\nEND:VCARD’,’send’)

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