Wireless telephony and instant messaging programs had lately become the preferred real time communication methods, for either personal use or inter-corporation. The increasing virus threats and spam floods made email a little less popular.
Joining mobile telephony and instant messaging seems like a perfect combination, given the broad coverage area and ease of communication, in a secured environment.
Research
in Motion (RIM), a company whose name is already associated to the mobile email concept, will release a mobile IM solution in association with two instant messaging networks.
RIM already announced that its next generation of smart phones will allow either classic (voice) communication, either chat within the Yahoo! messenger network. Yahoo!'s contribution to this method development is solely providing the chat program, the logistics being ensured by RIM.
The users will be able to know at all times which contacts are online, and they will be able to send messages and hold several simultaneous conversations. The graphic interface will be very similar to that we are already used to on our PCs, and even the emoticon exchange will be possible.
Presently, the partnership between the two companies allows the BlackBerry users to access Yahoo! Mobile Internet, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Sports.
RIM is likely to propose similar collaborations to other instant messaging service providers, so that AOL users could soon enjoy the mobile chat.
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