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I used to use Google Talk a lot. On the desktop it's handy. On my Android phone (HTC Desire) it seemed to work well. Since getting an iPhone 4 however I've pre
by cletus 16y ago
I used to use Google Talk a lot. On the desktop it's handy. On my Android phone (HTC Desire) it seemed to work well.
Since getting an iPhone 4 however I've pretty much stopped using it entirely. I simply cannot find a good app for it. The ones I have found seem to sign out after 4 hours (making them useless) or just don't seem to work reliably (eg I'd get home and find a message on my desktop that hadn't made it to my phone). So I had to give it up.
Your intended use case was the same as mine: lime SMS. But the fact that it works (or seems to at least) on Android doesn't make it a killer app for Android. It simply is a nail in the coffin for Google Talk.
Messaging is something that needs to be ubiquitous. IM had this problem (eg some people were on MSN, others on AIM). It's why SMS is such a success. Google Talk is already limited to those who use gmail. Further limiting it to those with Android handsets makes it much less useful.
- Legion 16y agoMeebo. It is the only IM app on the iPhone that I've found that is worth anything. Part of the reason why it works so well is that it does not maintain an active connection on the phone. Most IM apps fail as soon as the phone loses its connection for even a moment. Meebo keeps you as logged in on their servers, and then sends push notifications to your phone when you receive messages. The result is that you don't go "offline" when you experience any phone connection hiccups. Try it if you haven't. I use Google Talk and Yahoo IM on my iPhone all the time.
- StavrosK 16y ago> Google Talk is already limited to those who use gmail. You realise that Google Talk uses Jabber, and is, thus, the only IM I know whose protocol is open? You can use it with basically any client developed in the past 10 years. Trillian should work well...
- rahoulb 16y agoI use OneTeam for GTalk - stays signed in for 12 hours and I've not noticed a missed notification (although they were sometimes delayed a bit)