Wireless IM
from the Driving-and-instant-messaging-can-cause-damage-to-your-health dept
News.com has a teaser story that AOL and Motorola are going to extend AOL Instant Messenger to run on Motorola wireless devices. Finally, I’ll be able to instant message while I drive! More as the story develops.
Update: Full story is here
Comments on “Wireless IM”
What will nokia do ?
I have a feeling that we’ll be seeing a few more teaster stories before telecom 99. I guess nokia could link up with aol or msn to match motorola.
Full story
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-851560.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.1005-200-851560
This must be iDen-targetted. Doing it over WAP seems silly since WAP’s use of SMS in 1.0 is notoriously lame. I can’t imagine them using anything else for the inbound message.
IM over GPRS is gonna be a lot more fun. No need for WAP at all then, it’ll all be IP (UDP).
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