Palringo IM hits beta in the Windows Phone Marketplace. We try it out.

Palringo Beta

For those of y'all who go dorsum to the Windows Mobile days, you lot'll recollect an instant messaging service called Palringo (www.palringo.com). The programme was its own IM service, which allowed things like voice-clips to exist instantly sent along with photos and files. In addition, it was too a multi-client pregnant it could support and connect (by proxy) to other IM services such equally AIM, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, ICQ and more. Finally, it had support for custom Groups which were basically permanent chat rooms that one could create and invite people to, in addition to supporting iOS, Android, Symbian and Mac/PC desktops.

We reported a few months ago that Palringo was finally going to back up Windows Phone, heck nosotros fifty-fifty showed some early screenshots. At present, v0.5 Beta is live in the Marketplace free to use for all. Of course that beta tag means information technology is however in evolution, and so all won't be perfect, but we've been using information technology for the last day and half with little to no problems.

Palringo

The app itself is fairly well designed and what information technology lacks in beauty it makes up for it in functionality. We hadn't logged into our Palringo account in nearly two years nonetheless when nosotros did, we were instantly reconnected to our old services and up and running within a few minutes (creating accounts on the device seems to exist problematic for some, so mayhap apply the spider web kickoff, then login). Messages were sent and received instantly, the Live Tile is double sided showing the numerical notification on 1 side and the message on the back.

Vocalism clips, arguably 1 of the all-time features, were easily recorded and sent instantly. Likewise, the second device received them nearly instantly too--impressive for a 3G connexion.

Palringo

Overall, fifty-fifty for a beta we like where Palringo is heading with this app. We imagine the final version will cost a few dollars, just so long as they keep it below $iv.99 (what IM+ Pro charges) nosotros don't run across a problem. For those looking for a multi-client IM app and even sending vocalization clips, we have to recommend you lot requite this a go.

Pick up Palringo beta here in the Market place.

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