Wednesday, September 20, 2006
SLAM - Social Location Annotation Mobile
Posted by Rocco Augusto in "SOFTWARE" @ 01:43 PM
http://www.msslam.com/
"Slam is a Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group research project, developed in conjunction with the Microsoft Photo and Imaging eXperience (PIX) team. It is a mobile device-based application that enables lightweight, group-centric real-time communication, location awareness and photo-sharing. The core concept behind Slam is a �Slam�, a group of people with whom you can exchange messages and photos. When you send a message in Slam, it is automatically sent to everyone in the group to which you sent it. For smartphone users that have the Slam client installed, their phone will buzz and they will have an indication on their phone�s home screen that there is a new message. For SMS users, they will receive the message as an SMS from the Slam server. Like smartphone users, SMS users can be members of multiple slam groups. SMS users will send / receive messages to a different phone number for each slam group they a member of."
I was really looking forward to trying this program out but unfortunately it does not appear that I will be able to do so anytime soon. The problem with SLAM is that it needs to be installed directly to your phone. Through the website you enter in your mobile phone number and cellular carrier and you receive a SMS with a download location. Here is the fun part, the program is over 2MB in size which you have to download to your phone!
I have two questions for the people at Microsoft that created this program. Question one, do they know how long it would take to download over 2MB worth of data on a GPRS or EDGE connection? Question two, who do you actually know that can afford 2MB of free space on their handset? Even after a fresh install I'm left with only 9MB of free space on my Cingular 2125 and even less than that on my older WM2003 devices. I'm starting to think that no one over there actually uses a Windows Mobile Smartphone. :(
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