AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy - Gizmodo Comments

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

kai — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:40:45 EDT

as of day-after-launch, meebo wasnt working at all for me on a demo iphone i used, which made sense after i read "no full ajax support" the very next day.

even if it's currently working on the iphone, im gonna have to say "it has to be asstastic" simply based on the fact that i use it at work everyday and if it's that bad on a top-end macbook with broadband, i'd be throwing my iphone against the wall if i had to use it there too.

yay for my sidekick II and it's amazing tabbed IMing capabilities. nay for the fact that that's about the only good thing on the damn phone (oh...and the keyboard owns everything on the market).

kai

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

duntuk — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:29:41 EDT

f this... meebo is 100% doing a mobile version of their service (to compensate for the lack of double click on iphone safari)... they know what's going on with the iphon... they'd be retarded not to do so...

duntuk

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

James — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:45:10 EDT

I agree, NoSauten, I'm heading out as soon as I can. But then again, all carriers charge WAY too much for SMS. I'm really bothered by their SMS overage rates. THe amount of data per message is hardly 10 cents.

James

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

Jumpking04 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:25:15 EDT

ebuddy looks wack.
I use aimonpsp.com
It should work on that phone. It works on anything. Well it works on my phone
T-mobile wing FTW.......HotSpot@home here i come..XP.

Jumpking04

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

nosauten — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:07:01 EDT

It sucks that you only get 200 messages. What a rip-off. Text messages should be unlimited in data plans.

When i-phone goes to t-mobile, I'm switching back. I know, it may be a 5 year wait, but it'll be a wait that's well worth it. You hear that at&t.

nosauten

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

drewheyman — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:41:01 EDT

at&t also bills IM messages as SMS, so i'd be careful with this service the first month i tried it.

drewheyman

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

robotic-mushroom — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:35:05 EDT

It's interesting that Danger was able to offer AIM on the Sidekick with T-Mobile from day one. Both the device and service are less expensive, and the data plan is all-you-can-eat.

Lacking iChat and a more robust Mail client, messaging seems to be the place the iPhone software needs the most improvement.

robotic-mushroom

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

G-stylez — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:37:30 EDT

MEEBO worked fine. Just a little slow to start up on Edge but once in, chatting went smooth. Hope they keep improving... I don't want to pay. I've paid enough.

G-stylez

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

Baberaham Lincoln — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:19:28 EDT

i have been using meebo since yesterday and it's working great...

Baberaham Lincoln

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

ScotteusMaximus — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:15:18 EDT

one of the reasons why i'm still on a legacy AT&T wireless contract (pre-cingular) is because i only get charged for outgoing text messages. if you read the fine print of any new AT&T contract, they charge you for incoming messages too, so the old AIM trick only saves one person from using up a text message.

ScotteusMaximus

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

lawl — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:02:16 EDT

I haven't had any trouble with Meebo, but there are a few minor issues.

lawl

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

korymatthew — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:59:32 EDT

wouldn't it still be called "ichat" though?

korymatthew