On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Kozlov Konstantin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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!
Yes, that's the point - today's feature phones can do more than yesterday's smart phones, so this distinction doesn't provide any value that I can see. Distinguishing available features of clients is provided through 115/30. /K
