Presence and IntComm WG

[Ben Teitelbaum <>]

Has anyone in this group played with integrated communications apps on
the Nokia 770?  The 770, which went on sale in the US today, is an
interesting device (see [1]).  It has WiFi, Bluetooth, a web browser,
and a media player; it is not a cellphone, comes with no softphone,
and has no in-line microphone jack (though presumably a Bluetooth
headset could be made to work).  It's Linux-based (source code and an
SDK are available) and several minutes of Google sleuthing reveals a
few softphones that have been tested on it ([2] [3]).  Evidently, GAIM
has also been ported to run on the Nokia 770.

It's refreshing to see some innovative thinking about mobile devices.
Moreover, the Nokia 770 seems like it might be a good platform for
experiments in campus-enabled mobile communications.  Thoughts?

-- ben

1. http://www.nokiausa.com/770
2. 
http://www.movial.fi/en/products/index.html?PHPSESSID=98396ba3b8ebb0196db9f4e557e83f3a
3. http://www.minisip.org/index.html

-- 
Ben Teitelbaum   http://people.internet2.edu/~ben/