AIM, MSN, Yahoo use SMS? Say it ain't so!

[sleebus.jones]

With the $25 data plan, why don

 

[Huey Freeman]

This is directly from TMO's site. linky

So yeah, looks like if you are a heavy AIM, MSN or Yahoo user, you're going to have to pony up $10/mo additional to get unlimited text messaging. I took a quick look around to see if there were any AIM apps and came up empty. So, until we get a 3rd party developer coming up with one, we are going to be stuck with lame SMS messaging. This is really dissapointing.

..wait u dont use more than 400 msgs a month?

 

[Cryptic79]

I don't. I'm using about 250-300. Then again, I don't IM regularly with my phone. Most are text messages to the wife and the rest are to other friends (maybe 25-35).

 

[sleebus.jones]

..wait u dont use more than 400 msgs a month?

I think you read my post wrong?

I'm saying that heavy IM users will want to go the route of the unlimited SMS package. I'm on AIM a fair bit, and I will definitely burn through those 400 messages.

 

[Huey Freeman]

Gotcha. With my sidekick I normally blow through 2000 txts a month, of course thats sent and received. I don't use aim all that much.. but does anyone know if the sidekicks AIM feature works the same way as the G1's?

 

[gtd3]

I hope it does!! The sidekick keeps you signed on forever. I switched from SK to Wing about a year ago and the AIM is probably one of the things I missed most.

 

[sleebus.jones]

It's going to seem like it does, but it's going to use SMS as the backend, so yea, AIM/MSN/YaHOO will count against your SMS total. It will show up in a separate app tho.

 

[johnkzin]

It's kind of weird that it uses an SMS backend, considering the actual AIM/Yahoo/MSN protocols are also internet based, and not SMS based.

Add-on programs will probably use the real thing, instead of the SMS version.

(I do enough SMS, though, that that alone justifies unlimited messaging)

 

[armooo]

Most likely it is using IMPS for everything but gtalk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMPS
I have a IMPS to AIM proxy I have been using with my razr with the 5.99 data plan (but it is not push). There IMPS server bills messages like texts.

 

[Deleted User]

Dude, i send over 900 to my girlfriend alone. At the end of the month, i end up with over 3000-4000 sms sent and received...

 

[Shoo]

Dude, i send over 900 to my girlfriend alone. At the end of the month, i end up with over 3000-4000 sms sent and received...

what DA.... do you talk at all? 4K SMS???

 

[Cryptic79]

Since Yoono got blocked at work, it seems that I will be doing much more IM'ing on Y!/MSN through the G1.

I guess that means I'll be upping to the unlimited message plan.

 

[armooo]

You should be able to setup a transport on your gtalk account. http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/general-other-im-news/33739-connect-google-talk-aim-msn-yahoo.html

 

[GODMODE]

You would always try meebo.com its a unified client. Not to bad, then again, not like a real native phone app either. Its good when you are in a stranglehold

The apps will come, no worries. Its still a young platform.

 

[macleem]

just upgrade to the 35buck plan and call it a day

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[Spyral]

I agree. I used to go thru over 6500 messages a month with my Sidekick LX and Sidekick 3. I'm a textfiend ... hahaha.

 

[RaQHoliday]

You should be able to setup a transport on your gtalk account. http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/general-other-im-news/33739-connect-google-talk-aim-msn-yahoo.html

Now THAT looks interesting; OK, so having read over the page, let me ask this; would it be necessary to keep the jabber app running on a PC in order for Gchat to keep consolditating IM clients?