![]() For me, I like the MSN Web Messenger and the GMAIL-Talk for my iPhone.īut MrGroove, why not just use the countless Browser-based proxy services for these Instant Message Services? Tip: Just type web.im into your browser to launch the Yahoo! IM Browser ClientĪlthough easier to find than the Microsoft Live IM for Mobile, like the Microsoft service, the Yahoo! IM service is close to worthless. Unfortunately, because of the Flash requirement, my iPhone can’t use it. Had the Flash 9 install not been a requirement, I might have rated it first. (This is why I’ve listed it last in this article.) Once I logged in, the Client was very smooth and functional. It requires that Flash 9.0 or later be installed to use it. I found the Browser Based Yahoo! Messenger today (which is actually what motivated me to write this article/review), and surprisingly tried out the Yahoo! Messenger service for the first time. I’ll watch it from time to time and update this article if GooG releases something. If Google does release something in the future, you will probably find it on the Google Mobile site. Searching around (at the time I wrote this article) I could find no Native Mobile IM client. ![]() Unfortunately, the Google story falls apart for all Mobile Phones OTHER than the iPhone. Microsoft and Yahoo! have a long way to go to catch up here. The Google Talk for the iPhone is so good that it almost feels like a built-in App. By far, this was my favorite Mobile/iPhone based IM client between the big 3. ![]() Google Talk for the iPhone truly is fantastic. Unfortunately, not all systems, servers, or corporate desktops have FLASH, and if you don’t have Admin Rights on a box, you might be dead in the water because of this (Airport Kiosk, etc.) That being said, nearly ALL systems these days have Flash but… On a downside…it does require FLASH 8 or later to function. However, I think it’s important to note you don’t need to be a GMAIL user to get the Web-Based IM to work. Now granted, by now everyone is probably already aware that you can access Web-Based IM chat inside GMAIL. Google’s Web-Based IM client is from the Google Talk family of products. Google Talk – Google Web Based Instant Messenger Client Like I said, it isn’t perfect, but it does work if you’re in a pinch. Today the MSN Web Messenger client only support IE and Firefox.Īlthough it wasn’t very good, Microsoft does have an Instant Messenger client for the iPhone and other Mobile devices like phones. Hopefully, if they ever DO upgrade it, they will add in compatibility for other browsers. I’m sure there’s a LIVE version coming soon, but at the time I wrote this article, I wasn’t able to find it. The MSN service has surprisingly not changed for several years. It’s a SOLID client which I still use on a daily basis (allows me to IM people while working in the Data Center.) I probably started using it back in 2002 or 2003 when I quit using ICQ (Sorry AOL.) Let’s take a look at what I was able to dig up.Īs previously mentioned, the MSN Web Messenger service has been around for years. Although the Microsoft MSN client has been out the longest, Yahoo! and Google have both been working hard to catch and even surpass what Microsoft offers in this space.
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