Today I would like to offer an interesting comparison between two products of instant messaging aggregators.
Why I chose to compare precisely these two applications? simple are the only ones left who include among their services, including Skype. Once upon a time (up to about 6 months ago) there were Nimbuzz and Fring but then they "fought" with Skype and removed the service. If there was still this feature I would not doubt Nimbuzz would be the best (not only the ability to make voice calls over all the different services including personal Nimbuzz), but unfortunately the situation has changed and IM + and IMO are the only ones Skype also to have among their managed services. Which one to choose? These days I made several extensive tests ... we see the results
IM + IM +
is a commercial product, which costs about 7.99 euros (iPhone version). Among its features includes a cross-platform deployment of all respect, because you can buy it for iDevice Apple but also Symbian (3rd edition), Black Berry, Windows and Android Phone in practice all the most popular smartphone (in each case is can also have the program in Java ME and Palm OS).
examine the iPhone version, which is the most complete in terms of functionality.
The program comes with a rich and highly customizable interface through the activation of issues that affect the appearance of the buddy list and chat room;
IM + allows you to manage a variety of IM services including Skype, MSN, AIM, Facebook, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, ICQ, Jabber.
than that can handle an RSS reader to twitter and myspace.
Each service is highly configurable, and you can select the alert to be notified when a user goes online, and you can handle the chat history for any service.
The software also allows you to have multi-accounts of the same service, for convenience provides a shortcut to your Favorites.
With IM +, you can send pictures and voice messages but you can not receive pictures (It is marked as a link). Unfortunately you can not handle voice protocols of GTalk, Skype and MSN can not be percu use IM + vocally ... but you can send and receive small little voice recordings of 20 seconds.
Honestly I did not try to self-call to see what "I am" said the other side (imagine that share a sort of answering machine telling me to record the message, but did not know what language I guess ... English ... and I do not know if we can customize or less).
Among other features worthy of note is to report the ability to set custom status and also support invisible mode (but not working on Facebook).
You can also send a geotag to tell our client where we are, he will see a link to googlemap through which we will see where we're chatting with.
The reader twitter works really well, here you can also set different ways to follow your feeds and be alerted to updates on certain events.
Regarding the reporting system, IM + does very well, you can set up our presence on the various IM services up to a maximum of 7 days on 7 ... except unfortunately skype is disconnected after 2 hours our profile. In this case, IM + will warn us and we just reopen the application for back online ... it is a bit inconvenient but better than nothing.
In terms of battery management / multitasking IM + does very well, fastSwitch iphone is well supported and you can restore the application very quickly .. pity though that the "recovery" (or synchronization) with the various services is sometimes we talk very slow ... cmq a few tens of seconds.
service IM + but also has another interesting feature, namely the webapp + IM; through a web application you can use your account as if you were using the mobile application.
The program website is newly born and still provides a few features, but the interface is very good (clear, precise and no frills) and supports a full sync with the account of the mobile application.
The only two negative notes are that if I have on the mobile application and the web, whenever I get a message on the webapp, I get it too annoying on the phone making this kind of "redundancy" and forcing me to close completely 'mobile application as long as they use the web.
IMO IMO IM aggregator is a completely free, initially developed on Android but landed with great success a few months ago on the iPhone.
The program comes with graphics a lot (perhaps too) essential especially when compared to that of IM +. Not bad, indeed it is very precise but not customization whatsoever.
The user enters the credentials of one of his account and then "link" all the others. Here are supported
yahoo, skype, facebook, Jabba, myspace, googletalk, aim. Unfortunately, Twitter does not handle.
The system allows you to chat with several people belonging to different accounts and can send and receive pictures and short voice messages, in a manner similar to IM + you can not make VoIP calls.
Here you can set custom statuses when you can not send information about the geo-location.
support notifications works up to a maximum of 72 hours, and then over IM + Skype but in return is even handle up to 72 hours and not just two as with the competitor.
As IMO supports fewer features of IM + has the big advantage of being much faster and less full of it. The synchronization of account when the software comes from the state of the background, is definitely Pià quickly and efficiently. Even
IMO supports the web with a webapp that retains the aesthetic of the web, very precise and essential.
E 'also supported as WebApp for GoogleChrome with lots of widgets and notification messaging.
Another positive note is that when you IMO using the web system is not redundant duplication of events on mobile and this is a big advantage.
Which to choose? Well, I personally prefer IMO, it is true that it has fewer features and does not support Twitter .. but was much more efficient, streamlined and easy to use; IM + might have what it takes to become the definitive application but must still improve much the speed of the software that sometimes crashed when syncing especially if you activate a new account. I've used for tests on both four accounts (MSN, Skype, Gtalk and Facebook) and IMO things went faster.
also happened on IM + annoying bug to have repeated as facebook messages and the like.
So I recommend IM + if you want to have the geo-location, if you are also using Twitter and if you have a smartphone different from Android and iPhone ... otherwise take IMO and you will not regret
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