SMS Voter 2.0 for the Pocket PC Phone Edition Overview

SMS Voter 2.0 is designed to manage adhoc SMS/Text based polls collating SMS Text votes sent from any phone capable of sending Text messages.

SMS Voter 2.0 itself must run on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 (or greater) Smartphones or Pocket PC Phones.

SMS Voter 2.0 supports

1. Collating votes sent from any phone capable of sending a SMS Text Message.
2. 10 Polls with their own score criteria.
3. Polls can be independently opened or closed.
4. Anonymous and identifiable votes.
5. Three vote types: First Vote Wins, Last Vote Wins, Allow Multiple Votes.
6. Prize Draws - randomly selects a submitted vote.
7. Exporting poll data to Excel

I recommend downloading the User Guide from http://blogs.msdn.com/dglover/pages/sms-voter-2-0-online-documention.aspx particularly to understand the vote format.

This application can easily process 300 to 400 Text Votes over a 5 minute period. The gating factor for this application is the speed which your Network Provider can forward SMS Text messages to the phone running SMS Voter.

This application is also available for the Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone at Smartphone.Net.

About the author:

I (Dave Glover) work for Microsoft Australia in our Developer Platform Group (DPE) as a Developer Evangelist (lol, I kid not that is my title:)) I cover Web, Mobile, Windows, Database and Secuity software development.

This is a personal project, it's freeware and no liability is accepted for the use of this application...

For information on the orginal version of this application see http://blogs.msdn.com/dglover/archive/2005/09/06/461023.aspx.