Hi All,
I recently got some news on a BIG company that had teamed up with a mobile application developer to get working on a mobile IM client and they plan to give it out FREE. It is gonna be multiIM that allows you to have unlimited number of accounts and any IM service.
The planned features are:
1] Secure IM communication - encryption
2] Compression of data - so lesser bandwidth
3] Ability to use SMS to exchange data - though you will still be using the client, it will communicate to server via SMSs instead of data connection - a way to save your bills
4] always on - ability to receive and forward messages in case you are disconencted from the server due to data connection failure etc.
5] Initial proposed IMs supported are AIM, MSN, GoogleTalk, Y! and jabber, but planned for more like Skype, MySpace, etc.
The reason I posted it here is to gather more expectations from you on this IM client - the basic part is ready and you can expect it in two to three months time for a public/private beta.
I can communicate with the team to convey consolidated messages from this thread and I think the company memebers should already be registered in here.
One more expectation is that it MAY BE OPEN SOURCE Too
[Something like a mobile gaim/pidgin version]