On the E61, I use Agile Messenger for instant messaging quite a lot.
Often, I just leave it on in the background when I’m working or when I’m going somewhere. It buzzes me if someone sends a message. It’s pretty intuitive — the only arse being the memory management on my E61. (If I bring up the web browser, for example, Agile Messenger seems to close immediately.)
I reckon the Blackberry implementation of Google Talk is probably the best example of handset-integrated instant messaging — I used to use this a lot, while I used IM+ on the Blackberry to get me access to the other IM services.
What do you recommend?
I like Agile Messenger… in my SE P990i works very well… I believe it’s the easy to use and best integration with the phone.
Regards
I’m an agile man meself.
I’ve experimented with others but always find myself coming back to good ol’ agile.
Running on an N73.
Sorted.
I used agile messenger, but now I’m using the msn thing that comes with three’s xseries. I preferred agile messenger really but not sure it’s worth paying extra for
I prefer IM+ and use it on Treo, Perl and J2ME phone. Quite stable work for all platforms.
Are there any free IM programs anybody recomends? I am only using MSN IM right now if that helps. I use Mig33 but don’t like it very much.
GTalk integration on the BlackBerry is something I’m really missing on the E61 (even more so now I’ve given my BlackBerry to the missus who has just taken it back to Wales with her).
I’m really having to try hard not to go back to the BlackBerry.
I’ve tried both Agile and IM+ and I’m not overly impressed with either… I think Agile JUST wins over IM+ but neither seem to respect the profile the phone is in, if I set the handset profile to Silent I don’t want Agile to make noise. There is also some kind of XMPP incompatibility between Adium and IM+ 🙁
The issue of Agile disappearing is due to the automatic memory management in Symbian, it happened to me today when I was looking for a restaurant on london-eating.co.uk in the Nokia browser, found a place put the journey into Metro (cool Tube database app) then loaded up the Google Maps application so I could check how far away from the station the restaurant was but when I went to switch back to the browser it had closed 🙁
I had a quick look (very brief, keep in mind I was still trying to find a restaurant) and it seems like, even though the E61 has a fair amount of memory, having Good running uses up a fair amount of memory.. but you’ll notice Good never closes so I presume there is some flag a developer can set to make his/her app stay open.
I’d very much like an option to manage memory myself so that if the phone is running low it gives me a selection of apps to close. (this may be an option, I’ve yet to look).
Speaking of Good, have you noticed how badly it integrates with the E61 firmware? I spoke to Good… guess what! it integrates much better (as in the calendar on the Active Standby screen lists Good calendar events not Nokia calendar events and inbound calls and the SMS app read contacts from the Good contact DB) with the latest Nokia firmware that ISN’T available for UK handsets…. Grrrr!
I miss my BlackBerry 🙁
Come, Dan, take a seat, let us sit outside on the veranda, stare into the stars, sip ice cool coca cola and tell sad tales of Nokia upgrade woe. And instant messenger woe too.
Blackberry Google Talk is just about the best possible implementation ever, isn’t it? What an arse there’s nothing like that for Nokia.
And as for the lack of UK upgrade to Good… first of all, how frustrating for US Brits sat with BRIT devices — and also, what a total arse for the Good Mobile Messaging developers having to shrug their shoulders and point at Nokia. Deary me.
I’m surprised that neither Nokia nor Google have done an official GTalk client for Series 60 or that nobody has done a decent free or cheap Jabber client based on the excellent BlackBerry client…. ironically I’d pay $30 for the free BlackBerry client but not for Agile or IM+
This is especially surprising given the positive reports they got about the GTalk collaboration on their 770 tablet and that Nokia see fit to include their own IM client in S60 which appears to be COMPLETELY undocumented and useless (at least on UK handsets, perhaps it’s an operator-specific thing?).
Come on guys, a well integrated S60 XMPP/Jabber client? anyone? please?.
The lack of upgrade path from Nokia is completely inexcusable and quite atrocious… I know that Jay managed to upgrade his UK T-Mobile E61 by simply hacking the firmware upgrader to think that the UK handset model number is a US one and the only side effect is apparently a slightly different keyboard layout… but that really shouldn’t need to be done. If Nokia are going to sell a handset in the UK they should offer us the same level of support as they do other territories!
As for Good passing the blame to Nokia, I assume Nokia only introduced the required access to the OS in the recent firmware… doesn’t excuse some of their other quirks though… I’m compiling a list of must-have features that I want to see them spend some of that Motorola money on developing 😉
I’m not happy with the MSN clients so far.
The agile one works well but it disappearing due to memory issues is a *real* problem sometimes. The “three” one is usable but has one major problem for me which is that it too sometimes disapears (or if you use the “hide” function) and if you receive a message on msn you get a popup message saying you have a message and press the button to go to your contact screen – but the message is never actually there! I’ve lost a few messages this way. Does anyone else see this?
Has anyone tried Reporo – http://www.reporo.com? They demo’d last night at MoMo London and it looked pretty good on screen. I haven’t tried it yet, just wondered if anyone else had.
I use the shopping function regularly but I can’t recall trying out the IM service recently. I’ll give it a go.