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IMPS stands for Instant Messaging and Presence Service. It is an OMA
Open Mobile Alliance

The Open Mobile Alliance is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry....
 enabler for Instant Messaging and Presence. The Wireless Village
Wireless Village

Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence information. It is intended to be a standard for cellphones and mobile devices to use these services across platforms....
 consortium developed the first cut of the specifications. After Wireless Village
Wireless Village

Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence information. It is intended to be a standard for cellphones and mobile devices to use these services across platforms....
 was merged with OMA, its specs became OMA IMPS 1.0 specifications. IMPS is widely deployed but not necessarily marketed. Interworking between several operators IMPS platforms is being performed under a GSMA initiative that encourages interworking and deployment of Instant Messaging.

Vanilla terminals often have IMPS clients.

On Nokia
Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finland Multinational corporation communications corporation, headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki....
, the chat client is accessed via the "" menu.

On Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established on October 3, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones....
, it's called "My Friends".

On Motorola
Motorola

Motorola, Inc. is an United States, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, also designing and selling wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers....
, it's called "IM".






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IMPS stands for Instant Messaging and Presence Service. It is an OMA
Open Mobile Alliance

The Open Mobile Alliance is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry....
 enabler for Instant Messaging and Presence. The Wireless Village
Wireless Village

Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence information. It is intended to be a standard for cellphones and mobile devices to use these services across platforms....
 consortium developed the first cut of the specifications. After Wireless Village
Wireless Village

Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence information. It is intended to be a standard for cellphones and mobile devices to use these services across platforms....
 was merged with OMA, its specs became OMA IMPS 1.0 specifications. IMPS is widely deployed but not necessarily marketed. Interworking between several operators IMPS platforms is being performed under a GSMA initiative that encourages interworking and deployment of Instant Messaging.

Vanilla terminals often have IMPS clients.

On Nokia
Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finland Multinational corporation communications corporation, headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki....
, the chat client is accessed via the "" menu.

On Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established on October 3, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones....
, it's called "My Friends".

On Motorola
Motorola

Motorola, Inc. is an United States, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, also designing and selling wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers....
, it's called "IM". The phones' chat clients are generally designed to be provider neutral, so you have to put in the Wireless Village server settings.

If your phone doesn't have an inbuilt chat client, you might still be able to get a third-party chat application that runs on your phone's Symbian, Java ME, BREW
Brew

GeneralBrew may refer to:*Brewing, the production of beverages and fuels through fermentation*Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, a development platform for mobile phones...
, or other application environment. You need to get a chat client which is "Wireless Village
Wireless Village

Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence information. It is intended to be a standard for cellphones and mobile devices to use these services across platforms....
 compliant presence-enabled".

Note that it is still necessary for the operator to provide the IM service and/or one will have to connect to a third party server for connection with others for IM'ing

Compatible terminals

This is only a partial list. Many phones sold today support IMPS, especially phones from these manufacturers.
  • Nokia
    Nokia

    Nokia Corporation is a Finland Multinational corporation communications corporation, headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki....
    • 3220, 3500, 6020
      Nokia 6020

      The Nokia 6020 and 6021 are mobile phones made by Nokia. The Nokia 6020 has a camera while the Nokia 6021 does not have one. However, 6021 supports Bluetooth and the 6020 does not....
      , 6021, 6120, 6220, 6230, 6230i, 6300, 6630, 6820, 5140, 6810, 7200, 7260, 7270, 7610, 8800, E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E65, E70, E71, N70, N72, N73, N95
  • Motorola
    Motorola

    Motorola, Inc. is an United States, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, also designing and selling wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers....
    • V500, V600, E398, V3, V3xx, ZN5
      Motorola ZINE ZN5

      The Motorola ZINE ZN5 is a quad-band camera phone manufactured by Motorola and is the first of the ZINE series . It was released in China July 2008, and November 2008 for T-Mobile as the first 5.0 megapixel phone subsidized on a major US carrier....
  • Sony Ericsson
    Sony Ericsson

    Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established on October 3, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones....
    • K310, J300i, F500i, K300i, K310i, K500i, K510i, K550i, K600i, K610i, K700i, K750i, K790i, K800i, S700i, T206, T630, T637, V800, W550i, W200i, W800i, W810i, W850i, W880i, W900i, Z500A, Z800, Z1010
  • Siemens AG
    Siemens AG

    Siemens Aktiengesellschaft is Europe's largest engineering Conglomerate . Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany....
    • CX70, CX75, M65, SK65, S75
  • BenQ-Siemens
    BenQ-Siemens

    BenQ-Siemens is the mobile communications subsidiary of Taiwan BenQ. The division was formed out of BenQ's acquisition of the then struggling Siemens AG mobile group in 2005....
    • S68, E71, EL71, M81

See also

  • Wireless Village
    Wireless Village

    Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence information. It is intended to be a standard for cellphones and mobile devices to use these services across platforms....
  • Open Mobile Alliance
    Open Mobile Alliance

    The Open Mobile Alliance is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry....
     - an industry consortium that manages the IMPS specification


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