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.
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).
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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