Though smartphones have more and more market share, Java-enabled non-smartphones still have the biggest users base. In this post I will list 15 free GTalk mobile clients on Java-enabled phones based on the estimation of their popularity.
Fring, as one of the best mobile IM software, provides many powerful features such as VoIP, chatting with different IM networks and son on. Most of these features are provided as add-ons. One of the latest add-ons is twitter 2.0, which is far better than the previous one. Though the twitter 2.0 add-on of Fring is still not as good as Gravity as a mobile twitter client, the advantage is that users only need one program to go across different IM/social networks.
For people who are interested in mobile video chat, here are demos of making video call on Symbian S60 phones
Video call feature of OctroTalk and TiviPhone makes them outstanding among so many mobile IM software. However, there is another mobile IM software from China called imichat making a step further. It not only provides the video call feature but also the video chat room.
Fring is the mobile IM software I use mostly, but it has some limitations. For example, it only support one account on one IM network. In Other words, if you have several Gtalk accounts, you can use only one at the same time. This restriction is also on most other mobile IM software, such as [...]
Though very few mobile IM software support video call, OctroTalk is not the only choice. After spending more time to search on internet, I found another mobile IM client that can be used for video chat. It is called TiviPhone. TiviPhone is also not so well known and it seems that the developer didn’t put [...]
Today’s mobile IM software, such as fring, nimbuzz, talkonaut and so on, are already as powerful as IM clients on PC, sometime even have more features. But there is still one feature of mobile IM software is far behind their PC counterparts. That is video chat. There could be 2 reasons that makes video chat [...]
I used many different IM software on my mobile phones, including Morange, Talkonaut, Fring, Nimbuzz and others that are not so popular. Till now, Fring is the one I used most. Now there is another choice, Contacts on Ovi from Nokia. The different between Contacts on Ovi and third part programs is that it is [...]