I'm admittedly a little late with this <i>news</i>. This was announced about a week ago, but I wanted to talk to them about giving a few copies away and that took me longer than I thought. So, now the news is that pdaPhoneHome users <b>karl_bunch</b>, <b>jimn367</b>, and <b>looknow12</b> have won a copy of Verichat for the Pocket PC. I have used this program on the Palm platform and think its great. With the multitasking on the Pocket PC, I can only imagine how cool it would be there. I hope to give it a try shortly, but if anyone has comments on it now, please post them as a reply.
VeriChat For PPC - VeriChat For Pocket PC is an Unified Instant Messaging (IM) application for Pocket PC 2002,Pocket PC 2003 and other PDA devices such as the HPiPAQ,Hitachi G1000. VeriChat For PPC™ works with your persistent (GPRS/CDMA 1xRTT) or CSD wireless data connection to give you an always-on presence on the Yahoo!, ICQ, MSN & AOL chat networks. You don't have to be in the VeriChat For PPC™ application for you to chat with your buddies. They always see you as online and can send you messages, and you can receive and reply to them. You can be logged onto Yahoo, ICQ, Microsoft Messenger and AOL IM at the same time and can be talking to your buddies on either of these networks simultaneously.
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One thing I forgot to post... the winners should send me their email address and contact information by private message so that I can arrange for your license to be delivered.
Always on? Hmm, I'm sure I'd like the software, but not the service... When I'm around a computer I want to login to my MSN account there and not have them steal my login away....
....not to mention I'd much rather not have to pay someone else since I'm paying sprint for data access.... I mean, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, etc are free services. Why can't they put straight protocol access into their software? Sounds like too much of a lockin to me.
I am currently using a trial version of this and it works great. You can shut the "Always On" feature off by signing out of the services from within the VeriChat application. The only bug I found so far using it on a Samsung i700 with Verizon Wireless is that when you go to sign out of the services it takes forever. I thought my i700 locked up and did a soft reset a few times. I finally rode it out one time amd the unit did in fact respond but not for quite a while. Probably 5 minutes or more. I contacted PDAApps and they said it seems to be a problem on the i700. But they are not sure if it is the i700 alone, Verizon Wireless or a combo of both. The are working on a fix.
I'm a little confused about this app. They say it can use a high-speed data connection, but it also says you need text messaging service.
Does that mean that if you're not connected over EN or Q2N that it will SMS you? If so, it's not that big a problem, MSN IM already does that for me. But, MSN IM makes it clear to the sender that I'm offline and I've offered my mobile phone as an alternative way to text me. A message pops up in IM that warns the user that their message may incur cost for the receiver.
My concern is that this will make me appear online and people will SMS-bomb me as if I was online. I don't have a prepaid SMS bundle since I don't need to use my phone as a pager anymore. I know you're thinking what's the big deal with 2 cents, but you don't know the people that IM me.
So... I was excited when I read about the verichat application -- it looked like it addressed all the IM needs I had.
I downloaded it, installed it, read the _brief_ manual, and started it running. Once the registration process completed, it seemed to sign me on (I'm a little hazy about that), then moved me to the main "Online Offline" page -- but had no buddies in either window.
I figured I had to read more about what to do so I tried to close the app -- nothing. I tried to kill it -- nothing.
So i sighed and unscrewed the stylus and did a soft reset.
When my i700 came back on -- it was in the initial "Welcome to the i700" state!! It had lost _all_ information (contacts, appointments, etc.) -- essentially a HARD reset.
Fortunately (!) I had an ActiveSync backup which I'm now restoring (man that takes a while)... and I'm hoping that I get most of my data back.
But that really threw me for a loop. So be warned. YMMV.
Originally posted by Optagon
[BWhat effect does this program have on billing? [/b]
Found this out:
You use only your minutes when connected. So a chat that lasts 5 minutes uses just minutes.
It can also use text messages. Let me explain this b/c I was fuzzy until recently:
When you are in the program, you do NOT use text messages.
When you close the the program, but don't specifically disconnect, people still see you as "on-line". When they send you a message, it's a SMS text message.
I think it's pretty damn cool. If you don't want to be bothered with the SMS messages, just make sure that you log off of the system when you disconnect.
I have a SPH-i700, and when I launch PDAapps, my PPC automatically connects to the internet to log in. When I close the program, I still am shown as active in those messaging programs... and can receive instant messages... but they come as SMS messages. The program requires me to be on-line to reply to any messages.
I have written the manufacturer about the matter, but I was wondering if anyone else might have a suggestion
Originally posted by sound_enigma I have a SPH-i700, and when I launch PDAapps, my PPC automatically connects to the internet to log in. When I close the program, I still am shown as active in those messaging programs... and can receive instant messages... but they come as SMS messages. The program requires me to be on-line to reply to any messages.
I have written the manufacturer about the matter, but I was wondering if anyone else might have a suggestion
You can't just reply to the SMS? When I simply reply to the SMS, it appears in the chat window of the sender like I was on line....
I'm admittedly a little late with this <i>news</i>. This was announced about a week ago, but I wanted to talk to them about giving a few copies away and that took me longer than I thought. So, now the news is that pdaPhoneHome users <b>karl_bunch</b>, <b>jimn367</b>, and <b>looknow12</b> have won a copy of Verichat for the Pocket PC. I have used this program on the Palm platform and think its great. With the multitasking on the Pocket PC, I can only imagine how cool it would be there. I hope to give it a try shortly, but if anyone has comments on it now, please post them as a reply.
Warning! My i700 HARD RESET after first attempt
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