Verichat discontinued, effective immediatly

wouldya · #1 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 11:34 PM

pdaApps, now part of Intellisync, has discontinued selling Verichat.

http://www.pdaapps.com

its right on the frontpage.

wtf???

support will continue, if you have recently bought a license. but for those of you like me that haven't bought one....

now what?

jcarbary · #2 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 11:59 PM

I had just downloaded the trial the week before the announcement ... uninstalled that one quickly.

I use IM+ with my Yahoo Messenger. It's not perfect, but it'll do. (The biggest problem I have is that I can't see the user's status message ... for example, if my sister has "studying" on her status message, she only appears logged in to me. And I'll chat on and on, not realizing her "I'm here but not really" status.)

Oh well. It works.

jen

wouldya · #3 (**permalink**) 12-12-2006, 07:10 PM

Jen,

Is IM+ an always-on messenger? Does it stay connected to the server and therefore drain the battery unlike what Verichat did?

jcarbary · #4 (**permalink**) 12-12-2006, 10:38 PM

You can set it to run in the background. I don't have that option selected, so I connect and disconnect as I need to.

jen

wouldya · #5 (**permalink**) 12-13-2006, 12:14 AM

I'm trying out webmessenger that I found on http://www.treocentral.com .
1 gripe so far is for aol, for instance, can only have 1 screen name signed on at 1 time, where Verichat allowed multiple screen names to be signed on at the same time.

there is a subscription fee, of course. but it isn't a killer, 21.95 if I remember correctly. there is also a 5.95 monthly charge if u prefer.

and there is also a 15 day trial period.

dlbrummels · #6 (**permalink**) 12-13-2006, 08:27 AM

Nope, memory is off.

Product Description $5.95 per month

Annual rate also available: $29.95/yr

**Pibe38** · #7 (**permalink**) 12-13-2006, 12:48 PM

Subscription based? I don't know about others, but I don't see them doing well with this method. Was Verichat subscription based, or 1-time purchase? I don't IM much, so MSN Messenger works fine for me on PPC's.

wouldya · #8 (**permalink**) 12-13-2006, 08:01 PM

Verichat was a subscription because the program used it's own server that stayed logged on to the various IM servers and used SMS as alerts and IMs. So the plus was Verichat didn't stay connected all the time, and the downside being if you didn't have an unlimited SMS plan, you'd get hammered.

**Pibe38** · #9 (**permalink**) 12-14-2006, 01:14 AM

Uhmmm ok... I had no idea...

Thanks for the clarification!

wouldya · #10 (**permalink**) 12-14-2006, 03:34 AM

no prob.

does MSN messenger support other IM clients? or is it only MSN Live?