MobileChat now available in the App Store

Posted by admin 13 August, 2008 (0) Comment

Today Twenty08 released a new instant messaging client for the iPhone/iPod touch. MobileChat (iTunes Link) allows you to connect to multiple IM services, including:

  • AIM/ICQ/.Mac/MobileMe
  • Windows Live/MSN
  • Yahoo
  • GTalk
  • Jabber

In many ways, this application for the iPhone looks like a cross between Adium and AIM for iPhone. This application is feature rich, allowing you to take and send images or IM a phone number from any of your 10 supported IM accounts, Most notably, MobileChat allows you to use Apple’s forthcoming “Push Notification” system for notifications when the application is closed. This feature is built into this release, but will not be active until Apple “flips the switch.” You can download MobileChat today from the App Store for $2.99 (USD).

[via MacRumors]

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Google Talk for the iPhone

Posted by admin 3 July, 2008 (0) Comment

Google has just announced Google Talk for the iPhone (and iPod touch). You won’t have to wait for the App Store to use it, since this is a web app designed for the iPhone’s browser (remember when Apple wanted us to believe that web apps were just as good as fully native apps? My how times have changed).

All you have to do is point your iPhone to www.google.com/talk and soon you’ll be chatting away with your Gmail contacts. Since this is a web app, Google Talk for the iPhone only works when it is the active window in Mobile Safari. Close the web broswer, or switch to a different window and you’ll show up as unavailable in Google Talk.

[via Lifehacker]

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