The One Ring, Google Voice for Telepath (Maemo devices and Empathy)

I wanted to take a moment and mention The One Ring. It's a project that caught my eye a few weeks back, after reading a post in the telepathy mailing list. Today Ed Page, the founder of the project, made the official announcement.

    "The One Ring is a plugin (Telepathy Connection Manager) that integrates Google Voice into Empathy, Maemo 4.1 RTComm, and Maemo 5 RTComm."

The features include support for Google Voice contacts, sending and receiving calls to and from any number, text messaging, and much more. Check out the announcement at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=488632.

For the official website and download, please visit http://theonering.garage.maemo.org/download.html.

One thing I would like to mention is that Empathy support is still very early in development and may not work (I haven't been able to get it completely working in Karmic) so good luck!

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Comments (1)

Jan 22, 2010
 said...
Actually Empathy is the best supported client, its just an issue of what version. Due to similarities in software versions with Maemo 4.1, I have decided not to upgrade my machine and stick with Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and the version of Empathy found on it.

I have done no testing on 9.10 (Karmic) though it should be somewhat similar to Maemo 5's RTComm in terms of what version of the Telepathy Spec is used. I don't expect too many issues to be present.

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