Bout time more development is put into the UI than the hardware... Don't get me wrong, I love new hardware too.
It'd better have access to the chat app in gmail... damn phones / companies ripping us all off with text messages when we're paying for unlimited internet data...
There are MANY IM applications, regardless of OS, for mobile phones.....Jivetalk, IM+ to name a couple of multi-client apps. Google and AIM both have official clients for many OS's.
Oh yeah, if you want to PAY for an IM app... I mean I'd gladdly pay for IM+ if it were $5, but it's $40. $40!!! Sorry, I don't have that kind of money to spend on phone apps.
Trust me, IM on mobile phones have a ways to go. Currently on Palringo and even then you have to signup for their service to use. WHY can't there just be a simple AIM app where I don't have my username and pass through another company. I gon't have to sign up for a PIDGIN account to use PIDGIN then why do I need a Palringo account?
The AIM for Mobile developed by AOL doesn't even have a CAB available, So I can't even get it on my WM6 phone without having to set up active sync. Which shouldn't be required when you have no Windows XP to install Active Sync on.
There is an older version of the AIM application floating around. If you know where to look you can find it. Check out HoFo or the XDA forums.
You dont need another user/pass to log into IM+ or Jivetalk. You are correct, neither of these arent free(maybe the iphone version is...) (webmessenger on BBerry is free though)
There are free versions of AIM, Gtalk, MSN, and Yahoo available on the blackberry OS. All official clients.
Android will have IM apps, so u dont need to worry about your text charges. Relax people.
"The com.google.android.xmppService package has been replaced by the com.google.android.gtalkservice package. This is driven by the fact that the GTalk API is not XMPP compliant, and will be less so going forward. The reason is that XMPP is too verbose and inefficient for mobile network connection, and the GTalk API will be moving to a binary encoding for the protocol between the client and the server. There will also be mobile specific protocols added. For M5, however, XMPP is still used in general, but not 100% compliant."
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a @ Feb 13th 2008 3:51PM
Bout time more development is put into the UI than the hardware... Don't get me wrong, I love new hardware too.
It'd better have access to the chat app in gmail... damn phones / companies ripping us all off with text messages when we're paying for unlimited internet data...
gibber9583 @ Feb 13th 2008 3:58PM
There are MANY IM applications, regardless of OS, for mobile phones.....Jivetalk, IM+ to name a couple of multi-client apps. Google and AIM both have official clients for many OS's.
Jon Shipman @ Feb 13th 2008 4:30PM
Oh yeah, if you want to PAY for an IM app... I mean I'd gladdly pay for IM+ if it were $5, but it's $40. $40!!! Sorry, I don't have that kind of money to spend on phone apps.
Trust me, IM on mobile phones have a ways to go. Currently on Palringo and even then you have to signup for their service to use. WHY can't there just be a simple AIM app where I don't have my username and pass through another company. I gon't have to sign up for a PIDGIN account to use PIDGIN then why do I need a Palringo account?
The AIM for Mobile developed by AOL doesn't even have a CAB available, So I can't even get it on my WM6 phone without having to set up active sync. Which shouldn't be required when you have no Windows XP to install Active Sync on.
gibber9583 @ Feb 13th 2008 4:52PM
There is an older version of the AIM application floating around. If you know where to look you can find it. Check out HoFo or the XDA forums.
You dont need another user/pass to log into IM+ or Jivetalk. You are correct, neither of these arent free(maybe the iphone version is...) (webmessenger on BBerry is free though)
There are free versions of AIM, Gtalk, MSN, and Yahoo available on the blackberry OS. All official clients.
Android will have IM apps, so u dont need to worry about your text charges. Relax people.
Max @ Feb 14th 2008 5:50PM
From the release notes:
"The com.google.android.xmppService package has been replaced by the com.google.android.gtalkservice package. This is driven by the fact that the GTalk API is not XMPP compliant, and will be less so going forward. The reason is that XMPP is too verbose and inefficient for mobile network connection, and the GTalk API will be moving to a binary encoding for the protocol between the client and the server. There will also be mobile specific protocols added. For M5, however, XMPP is still used in general, but not 100% compliant."