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App for IMing a Blackberry?

  • 30-12-2009 9:19pm
    #1
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭


    Friend of mine has a BB, and he has an instant messaging pin. Is there an app I can get which will allow me to IM his Blackberry?


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  • #2
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    As long as he's on one of the major IMs - gmail chat, msn etc - you should be able to IM. In fact, any IM program should work since they run over the Internet and are device independant.

    Is that any help?


  • #3
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Thanks, but I'm specifically looking to IM him as a Blackberry user would IM another user using their Blackberry Pin.


  • #4
    bluemachaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭bluemachaveli


    Don't think you can, as far as I know the Blackberry IM is all ties into RIM's servers! Best bet is get him to get an IM app for his Blackberry.


  • #5
    Dardania
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Dardania


    sort of on this topic, what app do people here use for google talk? Im using palringo lite at the moment, but I don't think it's a background app...


  • #6
    dingding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭dingding


    fring

    Does skype and VOIP as well.


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  • #7
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    I'm using IM+, I quite like it. There's no background app for IM (not for non-jailbroken phones anyway).


  • #8
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    I got IM+ the other day: love it. Don't know how i managed without it before!

    I'm a GTalk user too, and IM+ keeps you online when you're in other apps/in sleep mode, etc. It also pushes new messages to the screen (whatever other app you're in) when you get one. It's the bee's knees.


  • #9
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    use Beejive for MSN/GoogleTalk/jabber/ICQ. it also does AIM/myspaceIM/yahoo/facebook IM.


  • #10
    Jax Teller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,763 ✭✭✭Jax Teller


    Use ebuddy its free


  • #11
    uRbaN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭uRbaN


    I had a similar problem when I moved from Blackberry to iPhone. Such a pain.

    I found most of the free IM apps only had 30 minutes of PUSH when you closed the App, which was a serious pain, and almost rendered the app pointless.
    The Yahoo App offers 1 week of PUSH, I never tried this though.

    Currently I use eBuddy Pro. It was $2.99 I think but offers 3 days of PUSH which is signifcantly better than the free version. I found it worth the few quid purely for that; my mate uses the Blackberry equivalent; happy days.


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