Jabber Releases PocketPC Client

[Jonathon Watkins]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.jabber.com/index.cgi?CONTENT_ID=408' target='_blank'>http://www.jabber.com/index.cgi?CONTENT_ID=408</a><br /><br /></div>This could be interesting. Jabber "is adding a wireless instant messaging (IM) client suite to its product portfolio, making the company’s product suite the pre-eminent offering to bridge mobile and desktop instant messaging users. This month the company is releasing clients for RIM, PocketPC, Smartphone, Symbian and J2ME compatible devices." Nothing like covering all bases is there? :wink: "According to Jabber, Inc., each of the available clients connects wirelessly to the Jabber XCP server, making them technically interoperable with other IM and presence networks." Now you're talking! IM everywhere to everyone all the time everywhere. (When the software is released of course - it's not there yet).<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/jabber_logo.gif" /> <br /><br />They've got bigger plans for the future as well: "Jabber is much more than an out-of-the-box instant messaging application. It is a real-time communications and presence infrastructure. It is open, natively interoperable, and uniquely capable of extending presence into a wide variety of applications. With Jabber, wireless providers can leverage presence to introduce exciting new offerings, such as real-time gaming communities or dynamic address books with presence indication." You can read more details <a href="http://www.jabber.com/index.cgi?CONTENT_ID=142">here</a>.<br /><br />It's going to be very interesting how the wireless IM market develops. Watch this space.

[Gerard]

Rats, here I am yet again wondering out loud what I'm missing. I used JabberCE as my MSN Messenger client back when my primary device was a Casio E-115, and then with the Casio EG-800. That's going back about three and a half years. Is this not the same Jabber? I had jabber.org as my usual chat proxy server, as jabber.com and others seemed not to work reliably. In my one or two tries with Yahoo IM chat, before I abandoned my Yahoo ID, it worked just fine. I don't think I've even kept the installer around here, as I've been happy with Microsoft Portrait or MSN Messenger for Pocket PC in more recent years, so I guess I've no immediate proof of this, but... surely someone else here used it too, right? It used to be a semi-hot topic in the old Brighthand days, back before it went to PHP, when the boards were a pale blue and looked more like the old PocketPCPassion, back before Steve blew a gasket and all that fun stuff. Maybe dropping the 'CE' from the name makes this 'all new'? Or maybe it adds new features with this version set? As I recall, the old one even supported CE 2.11 devices, as I think I tried it on a Casio E-100 I was selling for a guy.

[Steven Cedrone]

Is this not the same Jabber?

The guys that did JabberCE now have a product called imov. (http://www.movsoftware.com/products/imov/imov.htm) I don't think it's the same people now...

Steve

[blot]

Is this not the same Jabber?

The guys that did JabberCE now have a product called imov. (http://www.movsoftware.com/products/imov/imov.htm) I don't think it's the same people now...

Steve
From the imov site:
What is imov Messenger?

imov Messenger is a Windows CE client for the Jabber instant messaging system. The Jabber platform is expected to be the dominant instant messaging system in the near future.

imov Messenger is based on open standards and is fully interoperable with proprietary instant messaging systems as well as the open Jabber server platform. There are two versions of imov Messenger: the "basic" version and the "Enterprise" version. For an explanation of the differences between the two versions, please click here.

To see how you can deploy imov Messenger in your mobile environment, please read the “Jabber for Mobile Users” white paper.

It looks like it IS the same people.

[Steven Cedrone]

Is this not the same Jabber?

The guys that did JabberCE now have a product called imov. (http://www.movsoftware.com/products/imov/imov.htm) I don't think it's the same people now...

Steve
From the imov site:
What is imov Messenger?

imov Messenger is a Windows CE client for the Jabber instant messaging system. The Jabber platform is expected to be the dominant instant messaging system in the near future.

imov Messenger is based on open standards and is fully interoperable with proprietary instant messaging systems as well as the open Jabber server platform. There are two versions of imov Messenger: the "basic" version and the "Enterprise" version. For an explanation of the differences between the two versions, please click here.

To see how you can deploy imov Messenger in your mobile environment, please read the “Jabber for Mobile Users” white paper.

It looks like it IS the same people.

It's the same people that did the old JabberCE client, but I'm not sure if they are going to be the ones developing the new JabberCE client (since they have their own free and commercial product now)...

Steve

[ricksfiona]

I e-mailed the trillian people about the having a Pocket PC version of their Trillian program. Trillian works great on a Windows XP system and think they could do a great job with a Pocket PC version.