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ApolloIM and MobileChat join forces

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Aug 20th, 2008

Both ApolloIM and MobileChat were jailbreak applications for chatting on the go with your iPhone/iPod touch. Alex Schaefer, ApolloIM's founder, has recently joined the MobileChat development team. In a blog posting by the developer of MobileChat, he said that both applications underwent "friendly competition" and that, while there was no clear winner in the iPhone IM business, users got the benefit from the ongoing competition.

Now that Alex has joined the other team, you can expect that MobileChat will only get better. The post goes on to mention that Alex will be working on stability and user experience for the application.

MobileChat definitely got off to a rough start on launch day due to server problems, but seems to be working much better now.

Tags: ApolloIM, instant message, instant messaging, InstantMessage, InstantMessaging, iPhone, MobileChat

Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, App Store

MobileChat now available in the App Store

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Aug 12th, 2008

Today Twenty08 released a new instant messaging client for the iPhone/iPod touch. MobileChat (iTunes Link) allows you to connect to multiple IM services, including:
  • AIM/ICQ/.Mac/MobileMe
  • Windows Live/MSN
  • Yahoo
  • GTalk
  • Jabber
In many ways, this application for the iPhone looks like a cross between Adium and AIM for iPhone. This application is feature rich, allowing you to take and send images or IM a phone number from any of your 10 supported IM accounts, Most notably, MobileChat allows you to use Apple's forthcoming "Push Notification" system for notifications when the application is closed. This feature is built into this release, but will not be active until Apple "flips the switch." You can download MobileChat today from the App Store for $2.99 (USD).

[via MacRumors]

Tags: .Mac, AIM, App Store, AppStore, GTalk, ICQ, instant messaging, InstantMessaging, Jabber, MobileChat, MobileMe, MSN, Twenty08, Windows Live, WindowsLive, Yahoo

Filed under: Beta Beat, iPhone

Beta Beat: MobileChat iPhone AIM Client debuts

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Sep 4th, 2007

Gallery: MobileChat

Stop the presses! Today brings not just one iPhone IM beta--but two. The MobileChat iPhone AIM client just showed up on Installer.app. It lacks Apollo IM's run-in-the-background features but it brings an attractive client with both talk bubbles and Away/Available message control. The gallery that accompanies this post allows you to see the software in action. It's pretty basic but its undeniably slick looking. I don't quite get the half-a-parrot-head as an icon though.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in.

Tags: Mobile Chat, MobileChat

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