It's specific to T-Mobile US... and it doesn't actually use SMS as a
transport, it's an OMA IMPS implementation (which is a TCP/IP
protocol).

The IM shell app has a plug-in mechanism, but it's not exposed through
the SDK (for obvious security concerns).

JBQ

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Anders Aagaard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Been looking into it and it seems it's only enabled in the US client,
> as it uses sms's to send and receive those messages.
>
> Looking into ways to configure a jabber server a a gateway to gtalk
> now so I can use my msn and icq contacts through that, haven't had
> much luck yet though.
>
> Is there a api interface to the IM system?  Would be nice if you could
> just add more protocols into the same client.
>
> On Apr 17, 11:50 am, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Android doesn't detect anything. The UK phones don't have the same system
>> image than
>> the US ones, which are the only one featuring the MSN client pre-installed,
>> as far as I know.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Anders Aagaard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>>
>> > I'm from norway, but I got my phone from the uk, and I can't seem to
>> > get msn etc on the IM application that comes with the phone.  I've
>> > seen some of the alternatives available, but I'd prefer using the
>> > stock client if I can.
>>
>> > Now I'm guessing T-Mobile doesn't want msn on the device?  Which is
>> > fair enough, but how does the android detect what to block access to?
>> > I'm not in the UK, and I wish the t-mobile limits didn't apply to me.
>>
>> > Also if anyone know any lightweight clients for msn and or jabber (not
>> > the gtalk server, so I can setup my own and use the jabber gateways to
>> > other systems), that'd be great.  I dont really love the ones that
>> > keep your password on their servers for a single signin system.
>>
>> > Anders Aagaard
> >
>



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