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CNET Editors' review
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 ($4.99) includes such extras as landscape mode, visible buddy icons, and themes. We'd settle for file transfers and message archiving, ourselves. But for everyday chatting with friends on multiple networks, Palringo Lite will do the job with little fuss.
Publisher's Description
From Palringo:
Palringo Instant Messenger for iPhone is free. There are no hidden costs, catches or other charges. Palringo works by integrating with several existing, popular messaging services including Apple iChat, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber, and Windows Live Messenger. Palringo presents an iPhone user's IM contacts in a single, combined, presence-aware list, whichever IM service their contacts are using. Sending a voice, picture or text-based message are single-click operations. With Palringo, you can create and join groups - and exchange text, voice, or photo messages with large communities, regardless of where you happen to be. It now also comes with push notification.
What's new in this version: Version 2.9 includes new features, new language translations, and bug fixes.
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"contains online predators of all shapes and sizes"
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this website allows child predators of all kinds posing as children there is no filter there is no asking how old you are when they download app. Itunes should charge big$ for these to keep kids from being able to afford the download
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its free and any kid without money and access to an itunes account it looks great. Yeah I'll join sounds great and its free, when they are setting themselves up for disaster.
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