Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 02 February 2007 13:43:52 Dave Crossland wrote: For the recipients who are on Jabber (such as Jabber conversant phones) this is a good idea. For everyone else, MMS as the least preferred but available option is quite neccessary. Tho I do wonder how much GPRS traffic it would generate

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 02/02/07, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 February 2007 13:43:52 Dave Crossland wrote: For the recipients who are on Jabber (such as Jabber conversant phones) this is a good idea. For everyone else, MMS as the least preferred but available option is quite neccessary.

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 02 February 2007 14:13:32 Dave Crossland wrote: I imagine that low bandwidth proxies will emerge for all kinds of protocols both as the developed-world power users like OpenMoko owners want cheap omnipresence, and as the developing world wants to make best use of very limited

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Jimenez
I think a good Jabber client could totally supplant MMS - it support file transfers, which is all MMS really does (I think), as well as things MMS never dreamed of like encryption and presence and etc. Putting a good mobile-UI on, say, Psi or one of the other open source Jabber clients shouldn't

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-01 Thread Knight Walker
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:48:15AM -0600, Jonathon Suggs wrote: That sounds very interesting. I very much like the concept and look forward to seeing how it is implemented. Although it is an overall travesty, Windows Mobile has a single messaging program that you can configure all of your

RE: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread David Schlesinger
no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko On 2/1/07 4:30 AM, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, who uses MMS? Only pretty much the majority of actual cellphone users in Europe, based on the market research and carrier requirements I've read... IMHO

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread jsuggs
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: You might be right. But I personally feel that MMS is fundamentally flawed. Costs aside, it's just not the way I think media should be transferred. The benefits are just too low for the end user. We're trying to fix this. I agree. I have never used MMS, and very

RE: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread David Schlesinger
Now, that doesn't mean that I am a representation of the *average* user... I promise you, you're not. A _person_ is intelligent; _people_ are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.--Tommy Lee Jones as K in _Men in Black_ We *must* be able to easily/effectively communicate with

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread Knight Walker
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:48 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: I, personally, do not use MMS. I'm not even sure if that service is available here in Calgary, AB with the carriers here. I've had a dinky, free phone since the start waiting for the right phone (this one) to come along. However, we should