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Hey everyone I'm sort of doing a review of all the messenger clients that are available for use on a PDA.
If you guys know of any other good messenger clients please let me know.
Below are all the messenger clients I have tested:
AIM 2.0 Hacked
Pros: Free, Customizable away message, smiley's, change font color size etc ,
Can view actual AIM profiles, view your buddy list as you would on the PC.
Cons: No notifications, can't send/receive files, only for AIM,
Landscape mode is buggy, can't see mobile devices, On-screen keyboard
takes up screen so you cant see what your typing, no tabbed messaging, no VOIP/PTT.
Agile Messenger
Pros: Send/Recieve files pictures videos etc , VOIP, PTT , smiley's, multiple
messenger clients, tabbed messaging, notifications, auto reconnect.
Cons: Not very customizable (font size, color, away message etc.) , can not
view profiles or away messages, can not see mobile devices, have to pay for
services.
IM+
Pros: Multiple messenger clients, tabbed messaging, notifications, auto
reconnect, customizable away message, smiley's.
Cons: Can only view partial part of the away message, not very customizable
(font size, color, etc.) , can not view profiles, away messages
are buggy and get mixed up with users showing the same away for two
different users, can not send/recieve files pictures videos etc , no VOIP, no
PTT, not free.
Palringo
Pros: Free, Multiple messenger, view away messages, tabbed messaging, auto
reconnect, smiley's, send receive files, VOIP, PTT, notifications.
Cons: Need to register on their website, cant view profiles, not very
customizable (font size, color, etc.)
Slick IM
Pros: Free, Multiple messenger, view away messages, tabbed messaging, auto
reconnect.
Cons: Ugly looking, still in pre-alpha version, cant view profiles, not that
customizable.
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In conclusion all these messengers have their ups and downs, and their is not
one messenger that does it all.
Personally I use IM+ or AIM 2.0, since I only use AIM.
IMO Agile messenger is the best out of all of them, but it doesn't do
everything I need it to do. They should of at least made it more customizable
and be able to read away messages, profiles, and a customizable away
message. I dont really mind if you cant change your font color and size.
Once again if anyone knows of any other messengers that are worth trying
and are good please let me know!
Thanks
Nice review but it would seem more viable to me if you stated what you need for each to connect . example .... wifi / edge/gprs / data plan ...
Are there any ways that we can use our PDA to make free phone calls? Skype needs to pay.
fieldside said:
Are there any ways that we can use our PDA to make free phone calls? Skype needs to pay.
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Skype to skype s free .... LOL
Fring
You forgot the best one - Fring...
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You forgot the best one - Fring...
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Whats so good about it ?
does any let you use data instead of text as a mode of sending an recieving?
inquireing minds want to know.
moSess said:
does any let you use data instead of text as a mode of sending an recieving?
inquireing minds want to know.
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Data meaning as what ????
Jivetalk
www.beejive.com
has an open alpha of there popular jivetalk client which is the best messneger for blackberry
Well they have done quite well for WM6Pro also
Multi clients AIM/YAHOO/GMAIL/ICQ/YAHOO/MYSPACE
auto reconnect
available over GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA/WIFI
no send/rcv files yet
Also has chatlogs
Custom away messages, custom status messages
And very slick and iconic interface, Its touch scrollable!!
tramane said:
www.beejive.com
has an open alpha of there popular jivetalk client which is the best messneger for blackberry
Well they have done quite well for WM6Pro also
Multi clients AIM/YAHOO/GMAIL/ICQ/YAHOO/MYSPACE
auto reconnect
available over GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA/WIFI
no send/rcv files yet
Also has chatlogs
Custom away messages, custom status messages
And very slick and iconic interface, Its touch scrollable!!
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Can you join a chat-room with it ?
Hi:
All the reviews and posts on messengers seem to be a little bit old. Just wondering if there have been any improvements to any of the programs? Any new opinions on which is best?
I am currently trying Palringo, which looks great, but doesn't seem to have smilies, and disconnects when a call is placed or received.
I don't mind paying for a program if the interface looks great, and includes smilies. and remains connected even when a call is placed.
The ones I have read a little about are Agile, IM+, Octro, Mundu, and Beejive.
At least in the screenshots the interfaces don't seem as nice as the one for Palringo. i like that Palringo shows each person's messages in alternating colors. I may just think it looks better because I have seen it in person rather than screenshot though, so opinions would really be appreciated, so I don't have to try all of them, lol.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
EDIT: I probably shouldn't have said the psots I found were old, just that none are VERY recent, and programs receive updates, in some cases, frequently. So a month or 2 ago, could mean the programs may be different now, or people may have changes their opinions.
cincy1020 said:
Hi:
All the reviews and posts on messengers seem to be a little bit old. Just wondering if there have been any improvements to any of the programs? Any new opinions on which is best?
I am currently trying Palringo, which looks great, but doesn't seem to have smilies, and disconnects when a call is placed or received.
I don't mind paying for a program if the interface looks great, and includes smilies. and remains connected even when a call is placed.
The ones I have read a little about are Agile, IM+, Octro, Mundu, and Beejive.
At least in the screenshots the interfaces don't seem as nice as the one for Palringo. i like that Palringo shows each person's messages in alternating colors. I may just think it looks better because I have seen it in person rather than screenshot though, so opinions would really be appreciated, so I don't have to try all of them, lol.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
EDIT: I probably shouldn't have said the psots I found were old, just that none are VERY recent, and programs receive updates, in some cases, frequently. So a month or 2 ago, could mean the programs may be different now, or people may have changes their opinions.
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Well I dont have a data plan and to the best of my knowledge OZ is still number 1 in my usage. Yes as with most programs it has its hangups but in the overall it works fine . I can even chat with it while on a phone call ...
Ok folks ... The hottest messenger is out ... Well to my wants and needs it has them all. This program also allows you to join chat-rooms while on your cellphone . So this is no longer a feature that was solely controlled by danger which is what the t-mobile sidekick uses.
So people be happy after hours and days of looking and trying over 100 programs with different versions I am happy to say " MunduIM " is here ....
http://new.mundu.com/
Hi, do we have a similar app like Reminders for iOS?
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Don't know really what features Reminders has. But when I think about all the ads ..."Remember me to buy some milk, when I' leaving office"... appropriate apps for you could be: Tasker, Locale, AutomateIt, Llama
These are all apps to automate process (e.g. reminders based on your current location) - unfortunately all without speech recognition.
Hope this is what your are looking for...
What about Wunderlist or AnyDO?
They don't look exactly like Reminders for iOS, but are easy to use, yet powerful.
COL reminder is good
i use Any.Do. Pretty good.
Hi Folks,
One of my primary reasons for buying the Note2 (arrived yesterday, so not had much time to experiment) was the Stylus^D^D^D^D^D^D S-Pen. I'm hoping that the phone can replace my Moleskine notebook, in which I make short notes, jot down my action items, etc in meetings where I'm not chair / taking full minutes (for those, I expect I'll need to stick to an A4 pad).
Given what the device is, and who the contributors here are, I thought I'd post, to see if anyone else had the same requirements, and come up with a good working solution? If not, I'll post updates as I go along, and whether or not I find a solution which works well for me.
Ideally, then, my workflow would look something like:
Attend a meeting
Write relevant notes on the Note2 using the S-Pen
Have those notes sync <somewhere> (ideally automatically, but I can live with pressing a button or two)
Have my notes subsequently available on a desktop computer (Windows PC in the office, Mac when working from home)
Ideally have the notes auto-handwriting-recognised at a reasonable level of quality into machine manipulatable text
Other initial thoughts/comments:
I'm happy to use S-Note for this if it works well, but just as happy to use a 3rd party app, and to pay for said app if the value proposition is there.
I've had an evernote account for years, always though the concept was great, but never really made use of it. This will probably be my first port-of-call.
I'm a heavy Dropbox user, so Dropbox integration would work for me (especially since gaining the additional 48gig through purchase of the Note2!).
It would be great if the single app divided out action items and notes "auto-magically" somehow, and populated a cloud-syncing task management tool with the action items. But on this assumption this is asking too much, I think I'd be adverse to switching between two tools, one for notes, one for actions (though perhaps Multi-View would be an interesting solution here?).
Cheers!
Gav.
I'm very interested to see what your thoughts are after using it a while. I'm an engineering student, and was looking to buy a Note2 and take advantage of the SPen functionality. I like the idea of 'Formula Match' although I haven't experimented with it since I don't know anyone with a Note/2/10.1 etc.
I had the Note, and just got the Note 2 last weekend. The problem with S Note is that it only seems to sync to the PC as an image. So, you can't edit them on the PC.
The best solution I've found is using OneNote on the phone and PC. And, syncing them via skydrive.
Evernote seems pretty good, but I figured since I already had OneNote installed on the pc I'd try and make that work first, and never got around to Evrenote. It's a bit clunky though. I use the MS app most of the time, bit it doesnt do everything, so I bought MobileNoterSE and that does some things the MS apps doesn't. But neither is a complete solution.
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Best options will be to use something like Google Drive, to use google docs support, or Polaris Office (free with this phone) or QuickOffice to create word documents and sync with somewhere like Dropbox.
This way you will have easily editable files, you lose the ability to do things like the formula thing and easily insert images etc, but it works perfectly for handwriting.
Experience thus far
So, my story thus far.
Firstly, I had a play using S-Note and Evernote together:
To get your handwritten notes into evernote, you export via JPEG to Evernote (note, not a problem in the short term, but I've found the Note2 keeps a copy of the exported docs on the internal storage, so if you use it a lot, it could conceivably munch a lot of your space).
Evernote doesn't (so far as I can find) do OCR on the text to make it machine readable, but it does do an amazing job at OCRing for the purpose of making your handwritten notes searchable. Because it can be a little more "relaxed" in doing this (i.e. if it's not sure if you've written "pound" or "sound", it'll index the word as both for searching purposes) it does a truly wonderful job. It almost makes me wish I'd bought a page-whiz type scanner and fired in my hand written notes over the past few years.
My initial perception of the possible value of this search facility might be enough to make me forego the machine manipulatable part of my requirement.
However...
The handwriting recognition option, replacing the keyboard, built into the phone is very good. It does, I would guesstimate, about an 80% accurate job in recognising my (awful) handwriting in tests yesterday/today (how it fares when used "in anger" vs at my desk tests, I've yet to determine). The advantage here, ofcourse, is that it can deliver machine manipulatable text directly into Evernote, or any other tool you so wish (e.g. Polaris Office as mentioned above).
And, of-course, machine manipulatable text is searchable via any one of a hundred methods or varying complexity and sophistication, as suits your needs.
Ideally...
Of-course, ideally, both would be great. Being able to write, without worrying whether or not the machine "gets it right" is a godsend. I (most of the time) can recognise my handwriting, so if offered both, I could correct where necessary.
My experiments continue!
I'm a teacher and have used the Note II for a couple of weeks. Here are my thoughts:
-I previously used a 7" tablet, a swype-style keyboard and Evernote for making notes
-I bought the Note II after playing with it in the phone shop and seeing how accurate the handwriting recognition was. I have used a Palm PDA in the past and the Samsung system is lightyears ahead of the gesture-style recognition of the Palm.
-I input text now either using handwriting recognition and the S-Pen or voice recognition (when I'm at home and on my own!). It's very possible that using the swype-style keyboard is quicker, but I find in terms of vision, seeing my own handwritten, rather large words on the screen easier to see than the smaller keys of the keyboard, so it works out quicker and is more restful for me.
-I use Evernote for all of my notes. It's amazing. An example is of me helping another teacher assess some speaking and listening tasks in the classroom - I made my comments on my Note & Evernote, then emailed them to her. I now have a copy on Evernote for future reference. I travelled on the train over the weekend and planned all of my lessons on the Note. I'll be able to share these with support assistants easily, can access them from the desktops at school, and they are all automatically tagged with the date.
-I use several Evernote widgets. I use tags and notebooks to keep all the quick-reference notes a touch away, like this week's lesson plans and my timetable. I can find other notes very quickly using the search option.
-I've toyed with writing notes in cursive using the stylus - but in the end think - why would I want to do that, since the handwriting recognition is so good on the Note and I can then edit the text later very easily? My handwriting is not THAT beautiful! If you were really attached to cursive handwriting, S-Note can save notes with both drawing on and written text, although this would be converted to an image file were it then uploaded to Evernote.
-When I have time and energy, I mean to look into Tasker to make note-making more automated, for example opening a new note when I draw out the S-Pen. I'm sure Tasker can save and open notes according to location or calender appointments (you mentioned meetings)
My only wish was that attachments like spreadsheets could be edited and saved while still being attached to the Evernote note. Instead, I used Dropbox for files such as PPT and spreadsheets.
Hope this helps!
emeffeff said:
-When I have time and energy, I mean to look into Tasker to make note-making more automated, for example opening a new note when I draw out the S-Pen. I'm sure Tasker can save and open notes according to location or calender appointments (you mentioned meetings)
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Ooh, now, here's something I've not yet considered. If my notes could be auto-labelled based on the meeting I'm (supposed to be) in. That would be interesting.
Evernote can actually do this already. There is a setting which labels the title of your note with the current appointment from your calendar.
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I have started using Papyrus...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...m5vdmF0aW9uLmFuZHJvaWQucHJvamVjdHBhcHlydXMiXQ..
And Dropbox on my Note 2.
Handwrite notes whilst out at meetings, conferences, etc. Then share to Dropbox in pdf format and thus available on my Desktop when I get back to the office.
Papyrus is still under develeopment and doesn't do OCR afaik. I use my notes for my own recollection, so no need to produce keyboard text or send to colleagues.
Quite simple, but works for me.
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Best options will be to use something like Google Drive, to use google docs support, or Polaris Office (free with this phone) or QuickOffice to create word documents and sync with somewhere like Dropbox.
This way you will have easily editable files, you lose the ability to do things like the formula thing and easily insert images etc, but it works perfectly for handwriting.
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Must admit, this is the way I am leaning at present. The coolness of Evernotes indexed handwriting though continues to appeal
Greetings! I am researching a new smartphone purchase. I have been using HTCs for the past 6 years or so and have become very accustomed to the Sense UI. So much so that I don't have much comfort with anything else. It really comes down to 2 apps that HTC use that are the deal breakers for me. The mail and the messages apps.
So that leads me to my question for the Robin users. I was wanting to know how similar those two apps were to the HTC sense apps. And in particular in the mail app when an Exchange account is created does the app consolidate all of the folders of the inbox into one display? Or do you have to browse each folder in order to know if there is any new mail in that folder? I have tried and tried to adapt to an AOSP type UI and because of the functionality of these 2 apps I can't get comfortable.
I would appreciate any direction on this before I commit to purchasing one.
Thanks!
The Robin uses Gmail as its email app. You can see how it feels right now by downloading it and adding your email account. The messaging app is very similar to Google Messenger. The only difference between the two is that it doesn't color contact names (they're all a turquoise color) and it doesn't have the quick reply option that Google Messenger does. So again, you can download Google Messenger here and pretty much get the feeling of the app.
Everyone has their favorite apps and the fold 4 makes a few of them very much engaging and more useful obviously due to the amazing screen.
Are there any apps/ games/ activities that you think in particular have become more usable and indispensable on this device?
For eg. I really like using tradingview for analyzing stock charts. Really can use more indicators on the go.
Also, I love reading FLIPBOARD and amazon kindle app.
What are your app discoveries?
Spotify and Outlook do a good job of using the ZF4 like a mini tablet on the inner screen
Telegram, Gmail, MS Outlook/Teams and Office Apps, Lightroom, Canva, Chrome, GoogleDrive Apps, YouTube, Zoom Meetings...
Just this morning I had training in the office. At the end there was an assessment and to get the questions you needed to scan the QR code. This then took you to the training website and to the questions. Everyone was either squinting to read the questions, swiping from right to left to read or did their phones in landscape. No problem for the Fold, simply opened the inner screen and viola! Reading the questions was a breeze
What's the offset difference between Microsoft Outlook and Samsung Email? I've tried outlook but the ads annoy me, and I don't need the Microsoft suite of apps enough to subscribe to 365. Is there any stand out feature that Ive missed that could make me switch?
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What's the offset difference between Microsoft Outlook and Samsung Email? I've tried outlook but the ads annoy me, and I don't need the Microsoft suite of apps enough to subscribe to 365. Is there any stand out feature that Ive missed that could make me switch?
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I've been using the outlook app without the MS365 suite and it doesn't have any ads.
Probably u can try adding dns.adguard.com to your private dns and it will block all ads on all aps.
Samsung email is a great app and i've been switching on and off to outlook but since last 2 years it has been my primary email app. It has improved a lot.
Also, if u have a hotmail or live.com email, u can directly create task from emails to MS todo ( another MS app I can't do without)
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Just this morning I had training in the office. At the end there was an assessment and to get the questions you needed to scan the QR code. This then took you to the training website and to the questions. Everyone was either squinting to read the questions, swiping from right to left to read or did their phones in landscape. No problem for the Fold, simply opened the inner screen and viola! Reading the questions was a breeze
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Yeah. You one upped everyone there
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Telegram, Gmail, MS Outlook/Teams and Office Apps, Lightroom, Canva, Chrome, GoogleDrive Apps, YouTube, Zoom Meetings...
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Agreed. Any app that has anything to do with reading makes a great use of F4.
Video media consumption is kind of ok because of the aspect ratio and usually it gives the black bar sandwiching the video content. But I guess a 16:9 phone would be a bit odd. But also beautiful.
Does anyone know how to play videos in YouTube a little bit zoomed in, but not fully (so It cuts off less of the video but uses more of the screen? )
Total Launcher is the best launcher and the best app for me
4 Screens: horizontal folded, vertical folded, horizontal unfolded, vertical unfolded and i can customize them all.
Samsung Notes: I've bought a s-pen and it suprised me how good that app is. Got it synced with my girlfriend and we write, import, manage everything in it.
I agree total launchers cool, and seems to work well with fold 4, ita Just alot of effort to set up each screen in my opinion. Any one know any other launchers that work well with dual screen set up?
Ironically, Apple Music.
We can now add Google Keep to this list (it's been a staple of mine due to its cross-platform support for a long time anyway). They've just added a two-pane mode which works on tablets AND it works unfolded in landscape mode on the ZF4.
Anyone else got any more app recommendations for our Fold 4??
The obvious one is DraStic, the DS emulator and Citra, the 3DS emulator. Like, it's just asking for it.
I'd also say that Infinite Painter really takes advantage of the extra screen space when unfolded.
Another great find, Win-X launcher now supports folded screen v21.4, now my fold 4 can look like a windows pc!
book reader apps, have read quite a bit of ebooks already
Does anyone have any other new recommendations for apps??