Mobile IM October 9, 2006
Posted by mark in : General, Telecoms, Wireless , trackbackMartin Geddes (-ve) and Paul Golding (+ve) have a couple of good and contrasting posts about mobile instant messaging, compared with texting (SMS)
My Treo smartphone and multiprotocol IM application give me an atypical experience …eg. My SMS conversations do have a visible chat session (and are threaded by person); and a PC client doesn’t flag up that I’m a “mobile” IM user
I hardly ever use mobile IM. My current situation seems to be :
- SMS now connects all users (not separating Y!M, MSN, AIM, etc)
- SMS doesn’t need sign-up (and my contacts don’t all use PC IM)
- SMS receipt is notified by the handset (with no app open)
- SMS pricing is familiar (but data charges are presumed to be high)
- SMS is likely to send (but a stable GPRS connection is less likely)
- SMS only requires access to the handset (not a separate logon)
- [I could SMS a group via a free app, to make it easier/ cheaper]
- Can I use another application without closing IM?
- Does the IM application use up battery life quickly?
I tried to check some of these things over the weekend, but couldn’t get my IM application to connect
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