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malkavian	2012-03-01 , 20:22
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Originally Posted by tgalal

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

Ops, you are right. Conversations are not a huge problem for me, but sharing my address book is another big reason for not using whatsapp. I would need to have a separate address book for it, wich is more difficult to happen. Long live to gtalk!!! XD

RobertHall	2012-03-01 , 20:41
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hey dcastro sent you a PM

Dontales	2012-03-01 , 22:16
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Soon Whatsapp on the N9! Great!

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malkavian	2012-03-01 , 22:19
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Soon, more data for Whatsapp inc for selling to spammers! Great (for them)! ¬¬

	Hariainm	2012-03-01 , 23:16
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Originally Posted by malkavian

Blahblahblah

Dude, just... c'mon

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tgalal	2012-03-02 , 03:00
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Originally Posted by dcastrog

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

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

Originally Posted by rash.m2k

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.

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..

Originally Posted by don_falcone

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)

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.

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baem90	2012-03-02 , 03:51
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just a quick question, does it support push notification?

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dcastrog	2012-03-02 , 03:57
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well, in my opinion a plugin looks like a cleaner option for MeeGo/Harmattan, but the "received message" confirmation is a core feature of whatsapp, something that might only be achieved with the stand alone app. I will use either app

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Arie	2012-03-02 , 04:43
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Originally Posted by tgalal

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.

Can we also get the whatsapp info integrated into the system? That would be amazing, like a vibrate function for messages and a message on the lockscreen? For the N9 of course. OMG.... YES!

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tcbl50	2012-03-02 , 05:51
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i thought this was a developer thread?? theres another thread in the forum if some guys want to rant and rave...

I'm not a developer but just watching this thread with interest. Lets not spam this thread and let the developers get on with it

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