Presence and IntComm WG

[Deke Kassabian <>]

Looks pretty interesting.  Reasonably large screen and resolution,
good media formats.  A bit light on memory (~64MB usable?) and a bit
heavy in the hands (8.1 ounces).  But yes, this looks like a very
interesting platform for at least im+voice.

^Deke

--On Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:33 PM -0500 Ben Teitelbaum 
<> wrote:

> 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=98396ba3b8ebb0
> 196db9f4e557e83f3a 3. http://www.minisip.org/index.html
>
> --
> Ben Teitelbaum   http://people.internet2.edu/~ben/



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Deke Kassabian,  Senior Technology Director
Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania