[JDEV] wireless IM

[Thomas Charron]

Quoting Isotope2k at aol.com:
> So, what's on the horizon in the convergence of IM and the wireless
> web?  Will I be able to navigate to a Jabber-enabled WML-enabled
> website via my web-enabled wireless phone where I can send
> and recieve instant messages?  Is this a desirable technology?
> Another wireless "killer app"?

  Without a question.  I can't speak for anyone else on the matter, but I was 
looking at the www.openwap.org project, but they are still VERY preliminary it 
would seem.

  I do have a transport setup that will *send* SMS messages to SMS enabled 
devices, using the smsclient open source project.

> Will I be able to have my Jabber messages forwarded to my
> phone,

  To a netconnected phone, without a problem.  To a voice phone?  Well, that'd 
require some sort of commercial effort, simply to pay for the phone charges.. ;-
P  But overall, I see no reason why there couldn;t be an integration into some 
of the variouse IVR systems that have the capacity to read data.

> or be able to hear my messages through a text-to-speech
> interpreter, much like I can with my email?

  Tex to Speech would be fairly simple for a client package to include, really.

> Is Jabber extensible enough that I can reply to those messages
> verbally and know that they can be heard by the receiver?

  Yes.  A simple iQ request could answer there.  The problem lies in the fact 
that a given client may not support sound.

> Certainly these are all very intriguing opportunities... so what do
> we need to do to make this happen?  I see this convergence as
> the first real opportunity to realise the dream of always being 
> "jacked in".

  You'd be interested in reading the article several of us authored for OS 
Opinions.  http://docs.jabber.org/documents/users/articles/newface.html

> What are your thoughts?  Does anyone have similar projects in
> development?  I really don't mean to slight the all-important 
> groundwork that is being done currently, but I'd like to look to
> the horizon and see how we can exploit this wonderful potential.

  These are the kind of things that will be springing up really fast, now that 
we pretty much have the core system down.

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Thomas Charron
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