On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:11 AM, Kozlov Konstantin <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
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> 30.11.2012, 12:26, "Kevin Smith" <[email protected]>:
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>  Looking at http://xmpp.org/registrar/disco-categories.html I notice
>>>  that we have disco identities for "client/handheld" (e.g., PDA) and
>>>  "client/phone" (e.g., mobile phone), but I think those are a bit
>>>  old-fashioned by now. We might want to add an identity for
>>>  "client/smartphone" (i.e., a phone that can do a lot more than the
>>>  old-style phones we had in mind when we defined "client/phone").
>> 
>> If this thing is capable of running an XMPP client on it, it's a smartphone.
> Why?! Any cheap J2ME-enabled phone can run XMPP client without any problem.
> Usually we call "smartphones" only mobile devices with operating system 
> (Symbian, Windows CE/Mobile/Phone, iOS or Android).
> So, if you call any Java-enabled mobile phone "smartphone", you should agree 
> that no mobile phones produced today at all. Only smartphones!


While our current crop of smartphones can potentially support things like file 
transfer, A/V, and rich text, I do think the general usability concerns are not 
significantly different from feature phones; limited screen real estate, 
connectivity obstacles, limited text entry (http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/ 
is evidence enough for me) to name a few.


- m&m

Matthew A. Miller
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