—————————————————————————————————– [Updatex3] – 20.08.08 (02.11am GMT)<\/strong><\/p>\n No Push Capability \/\/ No persistent connection is kept<\/strong> [Updatex2] – 19.08.08 (23.35pm GMT)<\/strong><\/p>\n Twenty08 yesterday announced they have joined forces with one the greatest developers the iPhone has seen to date. Alex Schaefer. Recognisable as the developer of ‘Apollo IM’ for jailbroken units, Alex has officially joined the payroll over at the MobileChat base camp. Interestingly, Saverio notes Alex brought up some pretty nice ideas for UI enhancements and program stability. The relationship is said to be exclusive between Twenty08 and Schaefer, hinting Alex may drop support for Apollo IM on the jail-break scene. Apollo IM was a freely available application which did not use the ‘App Store’ distribution model.<\/p>\n Via: Twenty08<\/a><\/p>\n …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Original Article:<\/strong> For anyone who doesn’t know what I am talking about, Mobile Chat 3 is a full instant messenger client for your iPhone. The application works over Edge, 3G or Wifi and displays all your buddies who are currently using the service. Mobile Chat 3 supports AIM, Windows Live, ICQ, .Mac, Yahoo!, Google Talk and Jabber account setups. Using MC3<\/strong> The Chat Screen<\/strong> \nMessage Window<\/strong> Camera Button<\/strong> Info Button<\/strong> Choosing Available or Offline<\/strong> Other Options<\/strong> Landscape Mode<\/strong> There’s More …<\/strong> Note:<\/strong> E-mail and SMS push notification is only available for AOL\/.Mac accounts. Application Stability <\/strong> [Update] – 17.08.08 (01.25am)<\/strong> CURRENT REPORTED ISSUES<\/strong><\/p>\n – AOL\/AIM account users are reporting issues with bouncing logins – Application Crashes – Graphical Glitches. – Missing or Inconsistent IM behaviour. – Server Issues. ——————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n Overall<\/strong>
\nPlease note:<\/strong> The information in the article is highly exaggerated.
\nFor more information please visit: The Shambles that is Mobile Chat 3<\/a>
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\nSomething which should have been clarified a long time ago, is that Mobile Chat 3 for iPhone currently does NOT retain a connection to your account if you close the application. This will hopefully change when Apple implement ‘push’ technologies into iPhone OS, until then, we wait.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s fair to say the developers at Twenty08<\/a> (namely Saverio and Shaun) had a fairly rocky roll out<\/a> of this new messenger client for iPhone, but, after all the trial and tribulations, things are starting to look up. I’ve personally been using the application on and off for a good 2 days and can say that, when it works, it works. Flawlessly.<\/p>\n
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\nOut of courtesy, and due to privacy issues, I have decided to block out my buddies IM addresses.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTo use MC3 you need to setup an account. As mentioned above this can be a AIM, Windows Live, ICQ, .Mac, Yahoo!, Google Talk or a Jabber account. Once setup, your account reports all buddies currently active on the network you are connected to. The UI of mobile chat 3 is simple but almost classy.<\/p>\n
\nThis consists of three components;<\/p>\n
\nAs with all messengers, this allows you to communicate with your messenger buddy. On iPhone, simply touch the white box, and the keyboard will pop right up for you to use. Don’t want the keyboard anymore? – just double tap in the convo area and the keyboard will disappear back underneath the MC3 user interface, until needed again.<\/p>\n
\nWho needs MMS? – The camera button is used for sending your buddy photos, straight from your iPhone. You have a choice whether to send them a photo from your current photo library, or take one right there and then, with the built in camera!<\/p>\n
\nThis button when clicked, provides detailed information about the current contact you are chatting with. For example, it can show their e-mail address, your e-mail address, current online\/offline status and even loads their messenger profile if it’s available at the time of request.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nAs with all messengers, the expected option is to be able to choose whether to appear online to your buddies, and MC3 doesn’t disappoint in this field either. Not only do you, as a user, have the option to appear offline, but you can also appear away, and setup you own custom away messages!<\/p>\n
\nMobile Chat 3 also offers the ability to IM a phone number. By selecting to do this, you can IM your friends by phone number, without having to know their IM user name.<\/p>\n
\nAdding to the small list of applications which actually support this built in view,
\nMobile Chat 3 supports chatting in landscape mode. (Thanks diesel of Mac Rumors)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMobile chat 3 for iPhone supports PUSH. This is huge. Basically, any application with push activated can work without the application having to be open and on-screen. This means, if your talking to Jack, and you then hit the home button, open maps to view the party venue for tonight, and then exit maps, before you even open MC3 it will display the messages you received while away from the application in a red bubble, rather like Apple’s built in Mail application. But also, once you open the application again, all the messages you received while you are away are pushed into the chat window. Finally, you have an option to be notified by the Twenty08 servers, of new messages received, by SMS or E-mail.<\/p>\n
\n(Thanks diesel of Mac Rumors)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nApart from a few minor graphical glitches, Mobile Chat 3 held up strong for me.<\/p>\n
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\nTwenty08 have acknowledged<\/a> these issues and are working to resolve them as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
\nReports are in of the application failing to launch, or when launched and closed, other application fail to launch successfully<\/p>\n
\nPeople are also reporting of sporadic glitches within the program which cause buddy lists to disappear and account information to be deleted or lost.<\/p>\n
\nAlso reported is the issue of instant messages not being delivered to the recipient.<\/p>\n
\nTwenty08 are having huge issues with servers at their end, mainly due to sheer demand.
\nPlease refer to: Mobile Chat 3 Now Available<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n
\nThis application rocks, and when Apple provide true push services sometime in September, this application will get updates like nothing else, and rock even more. Despite the buggy launch due to server overload and demand – Mobile Chat 3 is set to be the only messenger client you’ll need for iPhone, we just have to give it time.<\/p>\n