Originally Posted by tgalal (Post 1172370)

So you trust whatsapp with your private conversations and your whole address book, but not with your mobile number?

Originally Posted by malkavian (Post 1172760)

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Originally Posted by dcastrog (Post 1172386)

nice! is there any challenge at the login (how are we going to login, with what password)??

Originally Posted by rash.m2k (Post 1172499)

Whats the point of binary coding (I'm assuming this is base64) the stanzas first?

Are you sure it's not just GZIP compression?

BTW - impressed with the client, it looks basic, but impressive non-the-less.

EDIT:: Google talk video calling is also available on the ovi store.

Originally Posted by don_falcone (Post 1172538)

Will this end as a proper Pidgin or IM plugin, or do we go the Android/iOS route with individual "apps" for every function/service? (not that i will use it, just curious if there's a change in approach for Maemo)

Originally Posted by tgalal (Post 1172892)

Although it would be nice addition for many users, but I find no advantage for having the password chosen/entered manually (yet).



Well one advantage is that tags and attributes are maintained mainly on server and client side. And so you'd only send and receive references to these data to use to reconstruct a stanza. This means less data transfer over the network..



Whatsapp has some features which aren't going to be available or utilized if implemented as a plugin. For example; message delivery to server and delivery to friend indicators. It might eventually end up as both (a standalone app and a plugin), however, my priority now is a standalone app.