Verichat discontinued, effective immediatly

[Pibe38]

Only MSN contacts... I know there's a beta for Live Messenger out there and that the PC version of Live Messenger allows to chat with Yahoo! contacts, hopefully, it will be the same and it'll allow that on the PPC version.

[wouldya]

ah. i thought so.

Webmessenger is looking as a viable option. It, unlike IM+ like Jen said, displays user's away message (but not Idle messages).

It logs on very fast (less than 2 seconds from startup) and had both buddy sign on and IM sounds that play even when the wx is "off" (still dont know what to call it??? asleep? standing by? what???)

I have left it on while not using the WX and I have seen a drop in battery life, the battery will drop to around 40% after 8 or so hours. Because Webmessenger does ping the servers. I've been watching the EV arrows and for the most part they are "grayed out" and it's seeming to be they ping about twice a minute for 3 or 4 seconds.

There is no increase/decrease in ping frequency based on how many different IM services you are logged onto.

[dlbrummels]

Of course you should check your service agreement and could always turn this option off.

Originally Posted by wouldya

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.

[dlbrummels]

If you haven't asked Shape Services about this, put in a request to add in future updates, I know their adding file transfer in the future.

Originally Posted by jcarbary

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

[dlbrummels]

To have multiple logins and bots was $39.95 for Verichat.

Originally Posted by wouldya

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]

Verichat was fee based as well as Webmessenger, and now Agile Messenger.

Originally Posted by Pibe38

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.

[dlbrummels]

It also lets you chat on Skype, Google Talk, ans well as Jabber. Their support has been top notch.

Originally Posted by wouldya

ah. i thought so.

Webmessenger is looking as a viable option. It, unlike IM+ like Jen said, displays user's away message (but not Idle messages).

It logs on very fast (less than 2 seconds from startup) and had both buddy sign on and IM sounds that play even when the wx is "off" (still dont know what to call it??? asleep? standing by? what???)

I have left it on while not using the WX and I have seen a drop in battery life, the battery will drop to around 40% after 8 or so hours. Because Webmessenger does ping the servers. I've been watching the EV arrows and for the most part they are "grayed out" and it's seeming to be they ping about twice a minute for 3 or 4 seconds.

There is no increase/decrease in ping frequency based on how many different IM services you are logged onto.

[gilesmartin]

so has anyone tried a jabber solution? I know it isn't ideal but you can use a jabber account (like gtalk) to connect to all your I'm services through transports (by first configuring your account using a desktop client like psi). you might enev be able to set up a home jabber server with its own transports and connect to it. the one I have tried with this is octrotalk which has a decent interface but seems to really slow down the device with time

[dlbrummels]

iMov Messenger is a Jabbber based I'M solution.

[gilesmartin]

yes, that is true bur my impression of imov is that it is further behind imov as it hasn't been updated for wm5 style one-handedness...and it too has slow down issues which are even more pronounced than octro