Gtalk: The forgotten app?

I see it the other day to message the misses and it was a lot quicker at coming through than a txt...

 

You'd think Google would put a bit more into GTalk, what with IM being such a big thing these days (think of all the 3rd party apps that consolidate various services). Perhaps texting has become more popular overall?

I know once thing I don't like about the desktop version is that it won't do offline messages. Is it the same on Android? I've not used it too much since I got my Vibrant.

 

My wife and I use GTalk exclusively; we don't even have any texting on our plans.

 

Love Gtalk. There were some problems with Rogers to Bell texting here in Canada a while back so my buddy and I used Gtalk (He has BBM). Wish they would do updates for it like they do maps, youtube, etc.

 

I didn't give Gtalk much thought at first, but now I use it to suppliment my texting, be it my wife from her PC at work, or my friends that have Android phones but aren't on Verizon. It's quite handy.

 

How do you resolve your phone going off every time someone sends you chat through the gmail web interface? I spend a lot of time at a computer with gmail open, and when I did have Talk on I didn't like my phone duplicating everything that I already had on the computer.

 

is gtalk on the market? i cant find it on my phone im thinking I may have deleted it lol

 

I have almost 70 gtalk contacts... I use mine quite a bit.

 

I use GTalk exclusively.

I've been a gmail user since beta, and have been using the talk feature since its inception. So, naturally I use the app as much as possible. I use it and it only. Have almost all my contacts included, and since Android has exploded these past 2 years, people are slowly trickling over and have started using it.

I recently had a friend with a Nokia dumb phone who was a text o'holic. My wife and I at the time had the minimum amount of texts on our plan per month. My friend texted so much we would occasionally get close to our limit. I badgered, hassled, and nagged enough over the course of a year to stop texting me, that he finally went out an bought an EVO. Now we really don't talk all that much anymore since he moved out of state But hey, he's better off for it afaic.

 

Check out eBuddy... good hybrid chat program that will let you do Talk and so much more