When I first got my FreeRunner, I was excited by being able to run Pidgin on it and not only use AIM but Jabber/XMPP and other chat systems (I even wrote a plug-in so that pidgin could use the FreeRunner's vibrator for alerts).
I quickly realised, however, that the general `chattiness' of internet IM protocols kept data flowing through the modem all the time, which meant that the FreeRunner could never remain suspended for very long--incoming data would quickly wake it up. AOL IM can get around this issue (not in Pigin, but in general...) by way of a SMS<->AIM gateway that AOL provides (which has a nice `SMS API' that can be used to configure whether--and how-- messages from AIM buddies are delivered to a phone as SMS messages and SMS messages send from the phone are delivered to AIM buddies over the Internet; this is also what sets the `phone' status, and `phone' icon, for people in an AIM buddy-list who are using AIM via their phones). It occurred to me that I could probably write a module for Pidgin that would allow it to use the AOL SMS gateway for AIM..., but I'd really rather move off of AIM (for various reasons) and just use Jabber. The issue with that, though, is..., where's the analogous XMPP<->SMS gateway? Is there any such service in existence? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community