- Quick specs
- Price: Free; iTunes account required
- Operating system: iPhone, iPhone OS 3.x
- Date added: September 10, 2009
- Total Downloads: 14,715
- Downloads last week: 220
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on September 15, 2009
Supporting eight chat protocols and some neat extras, Palringo Lite can handle Apple iChat, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber, and Windows Live Messenger. It's a good all-in-one chat app if you're determined to keep it free, but for the real theatrics, you'll need to go pro.
You'll need a Palringo account to get started, but that's easy to create from the application. Like most other chat apps, Palringo Lite organizes by contacts, messages, and groups, with other settings to help fine-tune. Push notification can also alert you to missed IMs, though the service was slow in our tests. Palringo's picture and voice messaging features worked instantly, but we would like the option of reviewing audio messages before they transmit. Friends on other networks receive both as Palringo-hosted links, where your media remains for 30 days. Palringo Lite also supports archived messages and file transfers, but only between Palringo users. These features unfortunately are unavailable for out-of-network buddies.
The Premium version ($4.99) includes such extras as landscape mode, visible buddy icons, and themes. We'd settle for file transfers and message archiving, ourselves. But for everyday chatting with friends on multiple networks, Palringo Lite will do the job with little fuss.
Publisher's description
From Palringo :Palringo for the iPhone is free. There are no hidden costs, catches or other charges. Palringo works by integrating with several existing, popular messaging services including Apple iChat, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber, and Windows Live Messenger. Palringo presents an iPhone user's IM contacts in a single, combined, presence-aware list, whichever IM service their contacts are using. Sending a voice, picture or text-based message are single-click operations. With Palringo, you can create and join groups - and exchange text, voice, or photo messages with large communities, regardless of where you happen to be. It now also comes with push notification.
CNET Editor's Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where you must continue the download process. You must have iTunes installed in order to open the link, and you must have an active iTunes account to download the application. This download may not be available in some countries.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.1.1 is a bug-fixing release.
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