Sametime Mobile clients

In Sametime 8.5.2, one of the most important items was the announcement of support for Sametime on several additional mobile devices including Androids and iPhones/iPods/iPads. Additionally, a Sametime meeting client is also available for Blackberry.

Sametime Mobile for Android

New in Sametime 8.5.2 is the support for Sametime Mobile on Android devices. The new client offers some interesting features. If a user is running the Sametime client in the background, they will now be notified when new messages are received. The use of the camera is now integrated into chats. A user can take a picture and send it to the chat participants, or they can select and include a picture from their picture library into a chat. The new text-to-speech feature will read chat messages aloud, enabling a user to visually focus on something else during a chat exchange. Finally, the Sametime geographic location information is updated from the GPS receiver on the device. More information can...