[JDEV] Nokia Series 60 and Wireless Village

[Iain Shigeoka]

On 12/24/02 2:51, "Richard Dobson" <richard at dobson-i.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have just come across this info on the Nokia website that shows that
> Wireless Village is not dead as someone here has claimed but is very much
> alive, it shows Nokia is building Wireless Village instant messaging into
> the Series 60 platform and has even got their own Wireless Village im server
> software on the way.
> 
> Series 60 Terminal Software Suite
> http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,5184,2802,00.html
> 
> Nokia Presence Server
> http://www.nokia.com/networks/product_catalog/pc_product_announcement/1,5561
> ,,00.html?prod_id=MIA00035&path=ann
> 
> So I think we need to start seriously looking at Wireless Village
> interoperability.

I believe that Symbian will be making WV a standard optional feature (like
email and WAP) of the OS so we should see WV support built into many new
mobile phones. Despite protests from one of our list members, I agree that
this is something we should target for interop.

Even if WV ends up being as dead as that poster claims, I think it will be a
useful task that will teach us a lot about making XMPP interop with other IM
systems. Shall we start a working group or something? I'm pretty short on
bandwidth so if someone else could kick start this I can contribute.
Otherwise, I can try to put something together in Jan when I dig out from my
current todo backlog.

-iain