"E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> writes: > I'm surprised no-one has mentioned XMPP yet..
It's a protocol, not an application. I actually thought of it in relation to GoogleTalk (or whatever it is caled thse days - not sure), but Google seem to have dropped server-to-server XMPP so you need a Google account, and I suspect it is not realistic with just a dumb phone. If development of an XMPP app for dumb and feature phones (and deployment of server infrastructure?) is acceptable - how many different models would you need to support? is it feasible to have an SMS/XMPP gateway with the required functionality? - then I suppose it can be hooked to an existing PC/Smartphone infrastructure. I don't know of any dumb phone chat facilities except SMS, which is really not a person-to-person-to-group IM. > Also for newer phones and the type of communication you want (one-way > broadcast) there's cell broadcast if the providers/government are > willing to cooperate. I think the OP clarified that one-to-one messaging was a requirement - this is why Twitter is no good. Can one get really cheap (surplus? used?) Blackberries today? They come with messaging out of the box... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
