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	benny1967	2008-10-03 , 12:38
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Originally Posted by thp

By "dpkg -x"'ing the .deb, you can find out some interesting things, like the first test build has already been made on the April 2nd 2008, then nothing until August 29th and September 2nd (the current version, 0.3).

Originally Posted by thp

There is nothing in this package that links or calls any GPS libraries, so I guess it's just another Jabber client package with branding. Also, no display of your buddies' GPS location as far as I can see...

Interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

Originally Posted by thp

By the way: There is already a Jabber "standard" for GPS location publishing: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0080.html - I think it won't be too difficult to implement that - with the added feature of not being dependent of "Nokia Chat" but being able to use it with other Jabber/XMPP clients, too.

I know. People commented a lot about this and how bad it is that Nokia doesn't make use of it in the Nokia Chat Blog right after the first public release. While most questions, suggestions etc. were answered in this blog by Nokia staff, I cannot recall any Nokian commenting on this particular issue. I remember we got the feeling back then that this is something they were not allowed to talk about.

The other thing is that Telepathy-developers left some hints on the web that they're planning on integrationg XEP-0080 in Telepathy. So this may lead to XEP-0080 on the tablets, which in turn might (maybe, eventually, provided there's good weather in Finland) lead to a compatible implementation in the S60-version.

Anyway... I don't see where this whole Nokia Chat thing is going. I mean they don't expect people to change from whatever account they're using to Nokia Chat, do they? It would be cool to have it as a generic XMPP-client, but the way it is restricted to Ovi makes it pretty much useless.

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