Other than the idiosyncracies of its software keyboard and the slowness of EDGE wireless, the biggest deficiency in the iPhone is its lack of instant messaging capabilities. Apple has been slow to bring out a true iChat client, so third parties have introduced a variety of solutions, none of which have been that great. That might be over with the introduction of mobile chat from twenty08 (mirror here), which looks as good as an Apple app and runs twice as nicely. Currently, it only supports AIM protocol, but the developers have GPL’ed the code, so it should get better over time. Get it while it’s hot!
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Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete’s particular Apple avocations are both around design–interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!
4 responses to “New AIM Client for iPhone is Gorgeous”
These do look nice. Now here’s a question, will these work on the new iPhone Touch? Since I realize the stuff I like most about the iPhone is everything except the phone, I’m thinking I might save up for one of those 16GB models instead of the phone.
It should work on the Touch — no one’s installed new software on a Touch yet that I’m aware, but word on the street is that it uses exactly the same code-base as the iPhone. It should even be possible to move iPhone Mail to the iPod Touch.