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On most Nokia phones you have "My Friends" in your phone. This is known as Wireless Village.
I am developing a new Wireless Village Community, at this time you can join a limited beta group (Need 300-1000 users to beta test).
1. You will not have to use a 3rd party application to IM (Better than IM+, etc. as it uses no overhead and memory, WV "Wireless Village" or "My Friends" is embeded in your phone.) You will not install anything on your phone!
2. You will use NO SMS/MMS (no nickel and diming fees, etc.)
3. Wireless Village allows you to create private/ public chat rooms for massive group chats
4. Chat with your contacts on AIM, ICQ and MSN at this time. (Yahoo and Google comming in the next week or two)
5. We support PC Clients such as Miranda, iChat, Etc.
6. Soon will support Email to Wireless Village and Wireless Village to Email messaging too.
Phone(s):
1: Nokia N97 Black NAM
2: Nokia E63 Blue NAM
3: Nokia 5800 NAM
Provider(s):
AT&T
Joined: Apr 2004
From: Texas baby!
Posts: 14,444
I've been using it all morning on my 6131 and it's simply tremendous!
1. you can set custom IM notification in the OS - so you get a different chime for an IM than a SMS
2. you can get pop-up notification when users come online
Phone(s):
1: Current phone: E51
2: Past phones: E61i, N73, 6620, 3390, A1228d
3:
Provider(s):
Rogers
Joined: Jul 2005
From: Canada
Posts: 631
How is that going to work anyways, is it a service where we'll be able to sign up and such or everyone needs to go through that one guy to setup or change any setting? Also what does that WV give that normal IM systems don't, is there like chat channels and such?
How is that going to work anyways, is it a service where we'll be able to sign up and such or everyone needs to go through that one guy to setup or change any setting? Also what does that WV give that normal IM systems don't, is there like chat channels and such?
The biggest thing with WV is that it can be used through the built-in client on your phone. So you have notices, alerts, etc at the OS level. For example, when I get an IM from Ricky, it shows up just like an sms notification does (i.e. instead of saying "1 new Message" it says "1 new IM"). It can be configured (though the beta isn't there yet), to aggregate all of your IM clients into one, just like AGile... but unlike Agile, it's way more stable because it's a part of the OS itself, rather than being a 3rd party app (and appears to use way less RAM).
For right now you have to sign up through the guy that's putting on the beta test, but after it's out of beta, it should be something you can just sign up for at will.
Phone(s):
1: Current phone: E51
2: Past phones: E61i, N73, 6620, 3390, A1228d
3:
Provider(s):
Rogers
Joined: Jul 2005
From: Canada
Posts: 631
Seems weird that there isn't more services like this since it's on pretty much all Nokia phones. I know of Yamigo but that site hasn't been updated since 2003 lol
Phone(s):
1: Apple iPhone 3G
2: Apple iPhone
3: Nokia N73
Provider(s):
AT&T
Joined: Feb 2005
From: Somewhere in CA
Posts: 580
well can we chat using the internal community? my username is kaplanfx. Also I'm using AIM, outgoing messages are fast, but when I send a message back to the device it takes forever to recieve. I'd say almost a minute of delay or so.
I just signed up for this as well...
Already it's better than Yamigo - it logged in.
I tried with a new AIM account, so I can't talk about importing of buddy lists etc. But the messages come in nicely, and I like that I get standard S60 notifications when IM's come in, as opposed to IM+ which I've tended to leave logged in and receiving dozens of IMs and not noticing.
03-26-2007, 13:06
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