Instango- IM for the Blackberry

By James Kendrick | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 6:02 AM CT | 3 comments | Tweet This

You Blackberry owners can rejoice with the release of IM client, Instango. Instango works with GTalk, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN, QQ, Jabber and Gadu-Gadu for starters. You’ll have to sign up for an account but it looks like Instango does email and RSS in addition to filling your chat needs. I haven’t tried it but I might.

(via Blackberry Cool)

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Comments (3)

The site is all over the place…what are they selling? SMS? Phone service? If the app is free why do I need to sign up? I’ll stick with JiveTalk, thanks. It’s been working well since I got my Blackberry.

Mark — 2:04 AM on June 18, 2008 Reply
While it’s a nice attempt to bring a multi-IM platform to the BlackBerry, the Java applet is so user-unfriendly, BlackBerry-unfriendly, and sluggish that it makes it nearly impossible to use. I’d rather wait for Palringo (www.palringo.com) to make a more stable BlackBerry version (right now, it just can’t make a connection on my 8830, but others have been rumored to work fine).

BeyondtheTech — 12:29 AM on June 19, 2008 Reply
Well I just down loaded this to my 8830WE. It certainly does take some getting used to and is jerkish and slow, but on the upside it is free (I think/hope). Personaly I’m still crossing my fingers for the day that gmail chat with AIM integration comes to the blackberry.

Cat

cdowie — 8:45 AM on June 19, 2008 Reply