Wireless Village is a set of specifications developed by the Open Mobile Alliance for mobile instant messaging and presence services. It is intended to be a standard for cellphones and mobile devices to use these services across platforms. The Wireless Village application (also renamed to My Friends/IM/IM presence depending on the OEM) ships on almost all major cell phones such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Samsung and Siemens. But unfortunately untill now, there was no free Wireless Village service provider to support the protocol for different instant mesaging services such as AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live, Google Talk and ICQ.

Packetbox is a new service in Beta that allows you to configure this inbuilt instant messaging app and use it with any instant messaging service without paying for any third party application such as IM+, QuickIM, etc

Packetbox features(from HoFo):

-Doesn’t use SMS/MMS
-Allows you to create private/ public chat rooms for group chatting
-Chat with users of any IM service- AOL, Google Talk, Windows Live, Yahoo! and ICQ
-Supports PC Clients such as Miranda, iChat, Etc.