Needs polish, but very promising
IM+ shows a lot of promise - its interface is cleaner, more logical and easier on the eye than Palringo, and unlike Palrobgo you don't have to sign up for a service to use it.
It needs some polishing touches before I would use it as an everyday IM app - at the moment, the contact list doesn't differentiate at all between contacts from different services (I use Windows Live and AOL/iChat), and the in-chat display is very primitive - your messages just show up in plain text, no boxes or speech bubbles or contact icons or anything. Plus, as other have mentioned, it doesn't make any sound or vibrate when a message is received, and the connection can be unreliable.
All very fixable problems. I look forward to the next update.
It needs some polishing touches before I would use it as an everyday IM app - at the moment, the contact list doesn't differentiate at all between contacts from different services (I use Windows Live and AOL/iChat), and the in-chat display is very primitive - your messages just show up in plain text, no boxes or speech bubbles or contact icons or anything. Plus, as other have mentioned, it doesn't make any sound or vibrate when a message is received, and the connection can be unreliable.
All very fixable problems. I look forward to the next update.
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Works
at random sometimes it decides to sign in and sometime it does not and freezes quite often it also crashed my itouch many times making it to restart. Fix the bug in the next update thanks
Average
The lay out and speed is great although after ten minutes of charting, it exits out with an error where you can't type. Fix this please!
It has potential
I like the program so far, it has a nice setup but could be more user friendly. The thing I like most about the program is the separate area for the inbox it shows the person whom has contacted you and if you click you can see the message. In the future I'd like to see a customizable, less buggy, more authenticity/aesthetic features/more options. Overall this is a good program is you just want to work with small time messengers.
I am a msn user by the way. Another good program for IM would be Palringo; try it.
I am a msn user by the way. Another good program for IM would be Palringo; try it.
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Finally a useable multi-IM client!
IM+ successfully allows me to chat with my contacts on MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, and AIM/iChat. It works well enough to get by, and it seems to be connecting directly to the servers rather than an IM+ server (which is a plus). Of course, like all applications, it does not run in the background, but that is to be expected. I look forward to future upgrades with support for other chats and feature upgrades. It would be nice to be able to group my various chat servers' contacts together too, rather than have them all together. Great version 1.0, and I can't wait to see it get even better!
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Very buggy
Sign in took a long time, didn't show entire contact list, could not send/receive messages.
Promising but needs lots of lovin'
Probably second best to Palringo, in the multi-IM client category, but a very far second. Reliably connects, but has issues keeping those connections alive. I'm often having to reconnect. Luckily reconnecting is a breeze, and dropped connections don't seem to crash the app. I have had crashes tho, only they seem random, which can be frustrating. Doesn't display avatars and doesn't display protocol badges. Message field is too close to keypad and spellchecker popup interferes with keypad.
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still no.
I am tired of giving bad reviews. I have tried each and every Instant Messaging application here, secretly hoping for one that will do VoIP, and this one is another disappointment. This newcomer, IM+, looked like a promising contendor, particularly with the company backing it offering Skype functionality with Voice for the iPhone. I would be willing to pay for that! My expectations were therefore quite high and this was a let-down.
Things I noticed:
1) No Skype support - none whatsoever. None. Zero. Zilch.
2) No unicode support - if you are like me, bilingual and occasionally using an alphabet other than latin, forget IM+. Anything other than the latin alphabet, will get you an error.
3) No HTML support - At the very least, shouldn't it strip the HTML from incomming messages if it cannot render it?
4) Crashes - Stability issues. It crashes seemingly at random and for no reason. You don't even need to USE your phone in order for this application to crash! If only it showed as much initiative working as it does crashing, it would have 5 stars!
5) When you select a conversation from your list of conversations, you don't have an arrow back. The Home button is the only way out.
For now I am sticking with Palringo. While everyone else tries to come up with a chat program, the guys writing Palringo actually succeed! IM+ has a long road ahead of it before it is ready for use.
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Ok App
waiting on feature updates for this app. I wish Windows Live made An msn app that would be cool. wish there were picture option change ur personnal msg
A Good Start
This is a good start for a nice IM application. The interface is ok and the basic functions work, you can IM your friends. The app does seem to crash fairly often on my iPod Touch, and it does not seem to let you multitask while chatting. If these two issues would be addressed, this would definitely be a 5 star application.
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