Today Palringo is unveiling their “vocal instant messaging” on iPhone. It lets users send the equivalent of a text message, but by voice. Sound familiar? Of course. It’s the service we’ve all come to know and love as “push to talk”. But unlike traditional push to talk services, this one spans handsets from Apple, Nokia, RIM and Windows Mobile OEMS, plus carriers.
That’s a paradigm shifter.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=59556669-e7d6-43c2-8d0e-f64e950d3317)
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
{ 1 trackback }