If you own anyone of these phones: Nokia 3220, Nokia 6220, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6230, Nokia 5140, Nokia 6810, Nokia 7200, Nokia 7610, Motorola V500, Motorola V600, Motorola E398, Sony Ericsson T637, Sony Ericsson T630, SonyEricsson F500i, SonyEricsson K500i, SonyEricsson K700i, SonyEricsson S700, SonyEricsson Z1010, SonyEricsson T206, chances are you have a Wireless Village client in your mobile phone. For Sony Ericsson they call it My Friends. And now you can USE IT!
Wireless Village started out with the Wireless Village initiative that is composed of
different companies wanting to integrate Instant Messaging into mobile phones. But instead of creating another IM standard, they used the existing ones and provided a client for all famous IMs (i.e. Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ & AOL). This is pretty much the same as with the Agile Messenger in PocketPC's and VeriChat for the PalmOS devices but this is in the cellular phone itself. The wireless village is a part of the Mobile IMPS (instant messaging and presence services) initiative formed by Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia in 2001.
There are four key features of wireless village: presence, IM (instant messaging), groups or chat, and shared content. Presence is an extension to IMs. It will include your status (online/offline/on a call/in a meeting), device capabilities (GPRS, text, voice, multimedia), device availability (is the phone or mobile device on/off), and your mood and hobby information. IM will be essentially the same as today, with interoperability between desktops and mobile devices.It will allow you to create and manage chat groups. These groups can be taken a step ahead by having an online storage for this content. It will also include access control features to enable or disable the above-mentioned services.
Ok, so you have the WV-enabled phone, what now? How do you set it up? It has been thought that it's the telcos that will be putting up the structure based on the specifications from Wireless Village. Up 'til now, no telco has put up that structure, thus we are left waiting, and the client in the phone is just another useles application.
Lo and behold, a website is offering to help us with our problem. www.yamigo.com is now offering FREE service for us to use the Wireless Village application in our phone. Unfortunately though, we will be forced to get/invent another username to add to the thousands we are using already. But after that, it's chatting on-the-go!
I've tried it on my K700 and I was able to log-in 5 minutes after I set-up my FREE account in yamigo.com. Though there are still some quirks like, Buddies from your IM is NOT added automatically, meaning you have to add your contacts/buddy one-by-one. And for Motorola and Sony Ericsson users, they are still figuring out how to do this since there seems to be some conflict with the firmwares of the said phones. One consolation though (for SE and Motorola owners) you can still add any registered Yamigo user.
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