Instant Messenger roundup!

[blacra]

I'm hoping for everyone's help on this one. I was looking for info on instant messenger applications that work on the Palm OS, and was not able to find any place with concise info on the available applications. What apps are there? How do they work? Do they work on all devices?

Here are the programs that I have found. I haven't used any of them except the Agile Messenger beta, which crashed my TX big time.

QuickIM
IM+
Chatopus
MunduIM
CCLite
Agile Messenger
AIM for Palm
Causerie
Zango

So, do any of you have any experience with any of these? Which ones worked for you? Which ones did you hate? Feel free to add names of other programs if you're aware of them.

TIA for the help. I think that most folks will appreciate being able to find the info in one place.

[Church Punk]

Mundu user here. Its quite good, no crashes whith my TX. You have the option of "background" mode, so browsing the web while hearing some tunes and receiving notifications for messages is not a problem on my device. It supports couple of well known clients like: yahoo, ICQ, msn (i use these 3), aol and mundu.

You could give it a try, its very user friendly and it does its jobe quite well ;)

[JAmerican]

Any AIM/GTalk ones that are free?

JAmerican

[Pdaman]

Any AIM/GTalk ones that are free?

JAmerican I would like to find free Gtalk app too. What I know there aren't even commercial which supports Gtalk. Or is jabber same as Gtalk?

I'm hoping for everyone's help on this one. I was looking for info on instant messenger applications that work on the Palm OS, and was not able to find any place with concise info on the available applications. What apps are there? How do they work? Do they work on all devices?

Here are the programs that I have found. I haven't used any of them except the Agile Messenger beta, which crashed my TX big time.




QuickIM
IM+
Chatopus
MunduIM
CCLite
Agile Messenger
AIM for Palm
Causerie
Zango
So, do any of you have any experience with any of these? Which ones worked for you? Which ones did you hate? Feel free to add names of other programs if you're aware of them.

TIA for the help. I think that most folks will appreciate being able to find the info in one place.


Could you guests and members please use the search button on the 1src. I don't do these threads for nothing.

Check this:
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71118&highlight=verichat+chatopus

[dmitrygr]

if an app supports jabber, it supports gtalk (minus the extensions like voice calls and voice mail)

[Mickets]

I use ICQ and MSN, and tried VeriChat and Chatopus. VeriChat is simples, but an annual subscription must be paid.

Chatopus works with Jabber, but I subscribed to a Jabber server that supports MSN and ICQ, and had no problem working with my ICQ and MSN contacts. And Chatopus has no subscription - pay once only.

From these, I would choose Chatopus, but I haven't seen the later versions, since it's long since I have used them.

[2XS]

I am heavy user of verichat on TX and IM+ on my 680. Verichat is the best and rockstable ... but licensing-option is not acceptable (1 year-description was not mentioned on the german pdassi-softwarestore >:-(
IM+ crashes very often on startup, obviously because of NVFS-issues and/or full cache... it handles background-mode the same way as verichat and stays tuned, even when the treos screen is off (rem-mode or so...) Alertoptions are very basic, no vibration so far :-/

gr33tz 2XS

[kennyd]

Chatopus is awesome. I have had nothing but good experiences with Chatopus. In fact I didn't even know anything about jabber clients except via Chatopus. It is not a very complicated process.

[PinCushionQueen]

Another vote for Chatopus!! I use Chatopus just about every day w/ GTalk (jabber). It's stable, easy to set up and fairly priced (IIRC, it's one of the least expensive of the clients - though not fee) :D

[blacra]

Sorry if I'm rehashing old info. I spent ~45 mins searching for previous threads on the topic before posting. I think the trouble is that I was using "instant messenger" as a search term, and not "chat". Semantics.

[Church Punk]

no problem man, happens sooner or later to anyone of us :)

[Pdaman]

no problem man, happens sooner or later to anyone of us :)Yeah, there are going to be thousands or millions threads if there aren't yet :D Anyway when these threads are increasing best way is create bit of odd or uniq name for the thread, so members can easily find them if someone needs some old information. Like my Medicine -named thread. Though even Medicine word as search word doesn't work as there are plenty medic guys searching software for their pdas. But if you add medicine + devices or bug's then it might found.

Also, finding my threads where are list of different softwares like launcher apps, email apps, im apps list etc. It will easy if searcher uses three or four common example IM apps as search words like "chatopus verichat agile" or for searching my launcher list thread "zlauncher megalauncher yishow" then that my threads should found because those apps will all be there ;) It is better way than searching with thread name.

[preludejtstyle]

anyone know where i can get aim. I cannot find it online. A basic 1src search doesn't pull much up.

[Pdaman]

[QUOTE=preludejtstyle]anyone know where i can get aim. I cannot find it online. A basic 1src search doesn't pull much up. For windows? It is definitely hard to for windows let me say that if I remember right. I will try fast dig it up... Ouh, I did find it with a first try :D

http://www.aim.com/get_aim/latest_win.adp

Anyway if you did ask it for palm os just go software section of 1src. There should be this IM app list thread. Not lyrically but you will see it on the first page. It should be active as people have started posting again to it.

[Gerorne]

I use the free AIM program Toccer on my Treo 650. It does drain battery life though, so I don't know how good it'll be for a TX (I'm getting one this week or next week in the mail. Upgrading from a T5.)

[BaDZeD]

I used to use verichat (which is great) but with it being EOL i switched to Mundu. So far so good, it does everything i want and works in the background.