Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Swisscom launches Mobile I.M.

Via textually.org by way of Unstrung ... :

Swisscom Mobile announces the launch of Ogo, the first real mobile instant messenger. In addition to the Instant Messaging function of the pre-installed MSN Messenger, the device supports the receipt and transmission of e-mails."

I wasn't actually aware of the Ogo device - there's a Flash demo at http://www.ogo.ch. On first glance it looks a little like Danger's sidekick. Instant messaging seems to be limited to MSN, but given the very high penetration of MSN in Europe this is probably not seen as a problem by Swisscom...