Picture messaging, text-based messaging and, soon, vocal instant messaging over the iPhone’s data connection come to the AppStore with Palringo’s Rich Messaging Service (RMS), a free application supporting over a half dozen popular messaging services to help you stay connected to your contacts without the need to switch between applications or use Web-based messaging.
Billions of people already use instant messaging on their home and work computers to communicate with each other. “Palringo adds vocal instant messaging and picture messaging and has put IM on the iPhone–that’s a great combination,” says CEO Kerry Ritz, stressing the program’s minimal data load. One megabyte is sufficient for Palringo to send/receive the equivalent of about 4,500 SMS messages, send/receive about 32 picture messages or send/receive as much as 15 minutes of vocal instant messages.
Available worldwide, Palringo lets conversations incorporate people from across the globe, on any mobile network or connected PC or Mac, which could make it very attractive for multi-national corporate users and extended family use.
8 responses to “Palringo Brings First “Rich Messaging” Client to AppStore”
> Billions of people already use instant
> messaging on their home and work computers
> to communicate with each other.
Billions??? You know that’s the One with 9 Zeros. Good one!
Markus
Been using this for a bit and it’s great! One great thing is being able to use you camera directly from the app, embedding the freshly taken photo (or one from an album) into your current conversation.
Fantastic.
It’s an OK app.
Too bad it won’t run in the background. I’m also bummed that you can’t listen to your tunes while you IM back and forth.
i’ve been using palringo on my winmo phone (where it does, oddly, work in the background) and have had good luck with it. i’ll probably give it a whirl on the iphone, at least until push notification comes along in september.