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AIM, MSN...YAHOO...considered SMS's??? What da hell?

jucadroid

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I was reading one of the reviews on the g1 and this guy was saying that the only true instant messaging application as out of the box....is Google talk...the other ones , AIM, MSN, and YAHOO are gonna be considered sms's what kinda bs is this TMOBILE??? Arent those supposed to me INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICES???? I cannot believe this....it is a suuuper deal breaker for me. I pay $140 for my service so i can have unlimited everything ....$150???? Give me a break TMOBILE
 
I was reading one of the reviews on the g1 and this guy was saying that the only true instant messaging application as out of the box....is Google talk...the other ones , AIM, MSN, and YAHOO are gonna be considered sms's what kinda bs is this TMOBILE??? Arent those supposed to me INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICES???? I cannot believe this....it is a suuuper deal breaker for me. I pay $140 for my service so i can have unlimited everything ....$150???? Give me a break TMOBILE
Not really surprising. Same thing as on the Dash.

If you have unlimited everything, then there's no problem, is there? "Everything" should include messaging.

Hopefully you have at least one other person on your plan at that rate. I pay WAY less than that for my wife and I to have Family MyFaves (no m2m), inet & email, 400 msgs each, 700 minutes.
 
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This is the way it was with the iphone for a while until enough people ended up with huge bills they weren't expecting.

As for a workaround, I imagine someone will release an app that uses gtalk for those other services as well. It's currently possible to do with the desktop gtalk app. Shouldn't be much harder to do on android.
 
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I was reading one of the reviews on the g1 and this guy was saying that the only true instant messaging application as out of the box....is Google talk...the other ones , AIM, MSN, and YAHOO are gonna be considered sms's what kinda bs is this TMOBILE??? Arent those supposed to me INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICES???? I cannot believe this....it is a suuuper deal breaker for me. I pay $140 for my service so i can have unlimited everything ....$150???? Give me a break TMOBILE


It has NOTHING to do with Tmobile, its how the IM programs were contstructed - bitch at google. ITs using the SMS gatewat to tunnel the IMs to the application. MOST IM programs do this, with the exception of the sidekick, and most news phones. Wait.. isnt this 2008? :)
 
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Take in to consideration that SMS is a reliable protocol. It'll work where data will not work and the reason it has been untouched for so many years is that it doesn't need to be. Let's go back to the old saying, "if it isn't broken, don't fix it." I've personally found data based IM to be less reliable than SMS and also consume more battery power. At the same time there will definitely be the option to grab a 3rd party application that will allow data IM (mentioned previously in this thread).
 
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No... I think Verizon and AT&T's Data and TXT message plan is ridiculous. Anyhow, I've provided my 2 cents on this subject. The messaging services using TXT messages is hardly anything to be upset about and definitely not a deal breaker.

BTW, as far as I know it's been like this for all the phones except with the MSN messenger service on Windows Mobile phones.



You don't think it's ******** that you've got unlimited data and you still have to pay 10 bucks a month extra to avoid being ass-raped for IM?

You're broken.
 
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I suppose its the way the data is transferred. I'm guessing since its charged as an SMS the process is acting like an SMS. Perhaps T-Mobile could bundle the $10 into the "Unlimited Data" but they'd still have to charge $10 more for that package.

That being said, you CAN access AIM from GTalk these days so I agree with what someone else said that the G1 should somehow have this "problem" fixed with an update.

But if not... the beauty of Open Source... someone will probably make an application - possibly AIM themselves - that handles Instant Messages as a regular data feature and not as an SMS.

We'll see... but its an interesting point to bring up. By the way, where was the original review where you read this?
 
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Take in to consideration that SMS is a reliable protocol. It'll work where data will not work and the reason it has been untouched for so many years is that it doesn't need to be. Let's go back to the old saying, "if it isn't broken, don't fix it." I've personally found data based IM to be less reliable than SMS and also consume more battery power. At the same time there will definitely be the option to grab a 3rd party application that will allow data IM (mentioned previously in this thread).

Nice post.

you guys seriously need to quit your bitchin every other company does the same thing. Its not googles fault that companies dont program their stuff the way you want. If you dont like it dont use it.

Things rarely change if people don't bitch about it.
 
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