Mobile Tools for the Outsourcing Professional, Focus Blackberry Chat Applications

November 5, 2006

As a professional in the webmaster outsourcing industry, it’s very important to stay in touch over instant messenger.  Tools like Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Jabber, and Meebo are all critical for successful communications!

Sometimes it’s not always possible to open up a laptop to chat with others.  In cases like that, using a mobile device might be a perfectly suitable alternative.  In this case, a great tool to use is a Blackberry device.  Blackberry’s have support for an application called IM+, which gives a user a single application interface to all of the open, public chat applications.

The developers of IM+, ShapeServices, are very concerned about device compatibility so far, and have made their application functional on the devices such as Windows Mobile Pocket PC ,Windows Mobile Smartphone,BlackBerry,Symbian S60 (v.1, v.2, v.2 FP3, v.3),Symbian Series 80,Symbian Series 90,Symbian UIQ (SE M600, W950, P990, SE P910, P900, SE P800, Motorola A920, Motorola A925/A1000, BenQ P30, Arima U300),Palm OS,Java phones,i-mode,Nokia 9210, and the Nokia 9290.

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