Mercuro with MMS

Support for MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) messaging has been added in the last release of Mercuro IMS Client.
MMS messages are sent over the network using MSRP/SMIL to one or multiple contacts (using conference factory).

Rich Communication Suite phase 1

RCS (Rich Communication Suite) is a join industry effort aiming to speed up the evolution of mobile phone communication towards rich communication. The RCS initiative includes network operators, network and device vendors (Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, SK Telecom, Sony Ericsson and Samsung).

The main purpose of RCS is to allow interoperability between network vendors and software editors.

RCS phase 1 defines 4 main features:

1. Enhanced Address Book (Service capabilities, presence contacts information, Video Call, …)
2. Content Sharing (Video Share, Image Share, …)
3. File Transfer (based on OMA Simple 1.0 specifications)
4. Converged Messaging (base on OMA Simple 1.0 specifications)

The RCS Initiative has defined a core feature set, developed reference implementations of the services and conducted interoperability testing in multi-vendor environment.

In next posts I will introduce all features mentioned above and explain how they are used in IMS Clients (Mercuro).

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Suite
http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/global/Press/Press+releases/news-archive/Rich_Communication_Suite_Initiative.htm

New Version of UCT IMS Client

The latest version of the UCT IMS Client v. 1.0.12 is now available for download. The main new features are support of MSRP (only message transfer support and not yet fully compatible with the RFC 4975), RTSP (I haven’t tested this feature so all feedbacks will be useful) and EPG for UCT advanced IPTv.