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September 29, 2004

Free World Dialup as a Wireless/Mobile Instant Messaging Network

A funny thing happened during the alpha testing of pulver.Communicator for RIM, PocketPC and PalmOS…we realized the cool implications of being able to use Free World Dialup as a public Instant Messaging network that transcends: PC desktops, Wi-Fi and Cellular (GSM and CDMA) Networks. Presence information and Text are the common denominators that we are able to share across ALL these networks. Even cooler is the ability to use these mobile devices to demonstrate SIP based third party call control.

For the past couple of days, I’ve been demonstrating to everyone who has dropped by my office this new ability of mine to send instant messages from my T-Mobile powered RIM device thru the Internet to my PC desktop. I just found the entire experience to be real cool. In fact, there was no real noticeable delay in the delivery of the messages across these platforms.

So instead of paying for SMS on a per message unit basis, the software application running on my RIM is able to send/receive an unlimited number of messages on the T-Mobile GPRS network. When/If I can get the attention and interest of enough people who normally use SMS and these mobile devices, I believe the implications for what this represents could be pretty significant…and this is only a sign of the things to come.

To date while Skype for PalmOS has been just hype, in less than three weeks we will be demonstrating the ability to send/receive Instant Messages and share presence information from Free World Dialup on the PalmOS platform on a Treo600 with pulver.Communicator on Windows XP as well as with a HP PocketPC and our RIM devices..

I’m currently working on the public demonstrations for the variations of pulver.Communicator that we will have on display in the Free World Dialup Pavilion on the Fall 2004 VON show floor.

I’m open to ideas on the best way to present this platform and these emerging technologies.

Posted by jeff on September 29, 2004 01:39 AM | Permalink

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Comments

Very interesting the implications of communication utilizing a RIM, PocketPC and PalmOS
Have you thought about a j2me version for java phones? Could there be a development of the pulver.Communicator for a mobile phone??

Posted by: Walshie at October 5, 2004 08:30 AM

How does one get a hold of the PalmOS version?

Posted by: John at September 29, 2004 02:50 PM

Sounds very nice :) Alas, I’d still have to pay like 13 HUF per 10KiB GPRS here.

Posted by: Ralesk Ne’vennoyx at September 29, 2004 07:07 AM