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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: March 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 167,231,994
- Downloads last week: 2,212
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 10742 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff on November 08, 2008
This venerable chat client upgrades with a retooled look and enough Preference control to satisfy even the most obsessive fans of customization. ICQ 6.5 includes video, audio, and text chat modes in a strong push to make the app the most versatile chat client around.
Audio chatting was smooth and painless, although that depends on user connection, of course. There's also a new Quick IM feature that allows you to send a text chat from within your contact list. The text window is only one line high, but perfectly sized if you're just shooting off a quick note.
Many of the notable plug-ins have been folded into the new version as standard features. Standard fare in ICQ now includes SMS messaging and the Flash-movie tZers as well as alerts and skins. Consequentially, the quick-loading app has a larger footprint. Ad banners are nonexistent except in the built-in games, and all text chat histories are automatically saved. Some features, like Push2Talk, seem to have been phased out of the new version, and customizing tZers is no longer an option. Also, the Help option is non-functional in this release.
Despite a few minor setbacks, there are too many improvements to keep ICQ down. Other notable additions include split-screen compatibility, IM forwarding, and integrated Google searching. In enhancing its already rich feature set, ICQ has definitely increased its standing among its many competitors.
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Publisher's description
From ICQ :ICQ 6.5 provides users with an innovative communication experience and enables quick and simple interaction among users across all communication platforms. ICQ Open Xtraz are web-based applications developed by ICQ users for enriching your ICQ 6.5 experience. Want to write to your friends? Talk to them? Just stare at their face? You can do it all! ICQ 6.5 lets you use each communication panel separately, or to do it all in a single window. ICQ now offers a fun new way to communicate--the Zlango way. Zlango is a universal icon language constructed of expressive visual icons that can be used instead of plain words in every instant message you send. Zlango on ICQ is available in 15 languages.
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- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 10742 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ICQ 6.5
Pros: Well it is very green.
Cons: Took over firefox. A real pain to get rid of.
Summary: Never again. Lost 1/2 an hour trying to get it out of my firefox.
Does not ask, nor explain.
Loaded tool bars, 2 (ICQ something & ICQ search). Changed my homepage.
IN Firefox: Would NOT disable, would not uninstall.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ICQ 6.5
Pros: There is absolutely nothing I liked about it.
Cons: Right away I found out that I could not add my contacts as it does not support their clients. The worst thing about it is it installed this ICQ Search which opened up as soon as I tired to sign on to my usual home page.
Summary: Uninstalling this monster did not rid me of this ICQ Search and it took me several hours to finally figure out how to get rid of it, not only from opening up at sign on, but also deleting it from my Firefox searchbox. I have to wonder if there's st... read more >>
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: ICQ 6.5
"It also installed icq search and now I am stuck with it"
Pros: why use icq when trillian does every messenger including icq?
Cons: It installed icq search. I removed it from add/remote program and checked add-ins in firefox and IE are removed. But every time I try to put a search in address bar, it uses icq search "powered by google" all the time. I hate it.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: ICQ 6.5
"good interface although lags at times"
Pros: easy to use , like audio and available on line alerts
Cons: transfer of files is iffy,slow: lags, search for contacts difficult
needs to refine on air status more for chat possibilities. needs more
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ICQ 6.5
"This product is good
and should be used by everyone"Pros: One can find people very easily with this program.
Cons: There is nothing that we dislike about this program
Summary: We were able to find people with whom we thought contact was lost.
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