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Fast IM, SMS, and Email on mobile phone/PC in one program

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mmforum	Fast IM, SMS, and Email on mobile phone/PC in one program	Lead	[-]
Posts: 89 (04/14/08 12:57:34) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Like many people, my computing time is shifting from my PC to my phone (many young people are skipping the PC step altogether). What's bothersome about the phone is that it's slow to handle all my communications. Some people communicate via SMS, some via email, and still others via IM so I end up having to toggle between programs on the phone checking for messages which is inefficient. SMS, IM and email are similar in that they're just a blast of words sent between people. I shouldn't have to launch multiple programs to send and receive them - it should all happen in one place. Read the entire article here: www.michaelrobertson.com/...ute_id=260
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Posts: 3 (05/07/08 09:10:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	This is a nice integration, although if you're talking about "it should all happen in one place" then Gizmo needs to look at the convergence between the PC and phone, and more specifically, the Web and telephony. To many, "young people are skipping the PC step altogether" just sounds like the parroting of a telco's marketing hype. I agree with Lee's comments "Voice will become just another mode within a multi-modal offering. The multi-modal offering (be it device/client/site) will itself be integrated with content sharing ................ It makes no sense to imagine much of future for standalone discrete audio streams known as telephone calls ... ". As I read through the various forums and sites run around Gizmo (and Skype, etc), it continues to strike me as very odd. As Lee says, "the World Wide Web (WWW) has largely failed to integrate communications aside from website based messaging. Of course there are plenty of website bolt-ons so that you can click to call or convey a presence status but it's anything from integrated or with appeal". As you say, it should all happen in one place (at a time).

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