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iPhone chat apps
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The two main native ones are Apollo and MobileChat. On the webapps side, Meebo and Beejive are the two most popular. I do not know of one that will allow you to communicate with Blackberry users.
I love Meebo
Meebo has no software to download and puts all 5 IMs in play. ( AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ & Google talk.
Go to: www.meebo.com
Meebo has no software to download and puts all 5 IMs in play. ( AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ & Google talk.
Go to: www.meebo.com
Lots of choices
Try this page, with tops of Chat apps (both webapps and native apps)
http://www.appsafari.com/category/chat/?sort=top
My vote is for Meebo (web based) and Apollo (native)
Try this page, with tops of Chat apps (both webapps and native apps)
http://www.appsafari.com/category/chat/?sort=top
My vote is for Meebo (web based) and Apollo (native)
good chat app
I use ChatME
this app supports few languages and many accounts in the same time
let's say i am satisfied
and it is FREE
http://itunes.apple.com/by/app/chatme/id459209144?mt=8
I use ChatME
this app supports few languages and many accounts in the same time
let's say i am satisfied
and it is FREE
http://itunes.apple.com/by/app/chatme/id459209144?mt=8
I Phone 4s Message Apps
I have tried many in t he two or so months Ive had the iPhone. Having used a Droid since that first luggy brown one, I have used countless brands Droid attempts. Anyway, one thing I realize spoiled me is the GChat Apps for Droid, which makes sense since its Google's world over there.
Anyway, I tried about all the apps for chatting I saw, avoiding some of the pricey ones that didn't have great reviews.
I settled on Meebo after growing too irritated with discovering and re discovering the failings of each. However, I have grown fed up now with Meebo and the problem it seems is its relationship with Facebook, which is no surprise giving how historically difficult FBook's chat functions have been with each update seeming to make it all worse. Nonetheless, when i have Meebo connected to my Fbook, it seems to overwhelm it too often into crashing when I attempt to access new messages it says i have, even if they are google.
So I either leave my Fbook account signed off to be able to GChat or risk missing some messages, in a timely fashion at least.
Now I seek an alternative if anyone has suggestions?
Thank You.
-jules
I have tried many in t he two or so months Ive had the iPhone. Having used a Droid since that first luggy brown one, I have used countless brands Droid attempts. Anyway, one thing I realize spoiled me is the GChat Apps for Droid, which makes sense since its Google's world over there.
Anyway, I tried about all the apps for chatting I saw, avoiding some of the pricey ones that didn't have great reviews.
I settled on Meebo after growing too irritated with discovering and re discovering the failings of each. However, I have grown fed up now with Meebo and the problem it seems is its relationship with Facebook, which is no surprise giving how historically difficult FBook's chat functions have been with each update seeming to make it all worse. Nonetheless, when i have Meebo connected to my Fbook, it seems to overwhelm it too often into crashing when I attempt to access new messages it says i have, even if they are google.
So I either leave my Fbook account signed off to be able to GChat or risk missing some messages, in a timely fashion at least.
Now I seek an alternative if anyone has suggestions?
Thank You.
-jules
For ease of use, cost, functionality and cross platform compatibility (including Blackberry), Whatsapp is very good.
Found one I hope
Not to jinx it by writing this so soon, but in the hours since i posted above about my woes in trying many different chat apps, I have found IM + and so far its working well.
Not sure why I had not before. My guess is that maybe it's only recently that the free with ads version uses both Google and Facebook
anyway it seems smooth, has multiple tones and emoticons that work and all.
So hopefully saved the 7 to 10 bucks i was considering dropping, probably on Agile Messenger.
Not to jinx it by writing this so soon, but in the hours since i posted above about my woes in trying many different chat apps, I have found IM + and so far its working well.
Not sure why I had not before. My guess is that maybe it's only recently that the free with ads version uses both Google and Facebook
anyway it seems smooth, has multiple tones and emoticons that work and all.
So hopefully saved the 7 to 10 bucks i was considering dropping, probably on Agile Messenger.