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[randybisig]

"Why chat when you can talk?" I ask my daughter that once a month when I see her part of the phone bill, the number of txt versus minutes used.
Txt'ing is replacing AIM and the others.

[MacTechAspen]

I am still waiting for them to fix the bug that does not allow underscores in user names. My Skype account has an underscore, so it renders Fring useless for me.

[MacGod]

Is there any way to use the VOIP service with a first-generation iPod Touch? Any external microphone or anything like that?

[Archiform_3D]

Actually, I think IM is slowly replacing texting (or SMSing). Texting was in long before.

I have been using Fring for a while now and I love it! I can wake up in the middle of the night and make those important overseas calls via my Skype account but using my iPhone. It's perfect! Then I just go back to sleep. Anywhere I can get WI-FI I have a perfect international phone, and it works nicely in the UAE too, where many of these things are blocked.

Steve Bell
Archiform 3D Architectural Renderings

[lin2log]

MacGod said:

Is there any way to use the VOIP service with a first-generation iPod Touch? Any external microphone or anything like that?

Nope.

[buzglyd]

I've used Fring and find some of the same issues as you regarding the IM service. For Skype, in the beginning, it was nearly impossible to make a call. Updates have made it much easier and Skype to Skype calls don't sound too bad. Skype to phone is still kinda choppy.
If you are making an important Skype call, set your iPhone to airplane mode and then you won't have to worry about being interrupted. You can re-enable Wifi once in airplane mode.
I still think Beejeive is the best for IM-background notifications and texting.
It's hard to complain. Fring is free.

[lin2log]

randybisig said:

Txt'ing is replacing AIM and the others.

Pfffff... NOT! That would somehow suggest that SMS came AFTER the possibilities that open up with phone's like the iPhone or are in some way a popular progression. SMS is a HUGE step back, duh. Just because (obviously) more people (or specifically your daughter of all people) can SMS while mobile hardly means it's somehow superior or actually preferred given the option. That's like saying video-chatting will succumb to text- or audio chatting or even SD video is going to replace HD!

Boloney.

[stoertebeker]

i did some research and there seems to be a solution from touchmic.com; there seems to be a prerequiste that the device has to be 'jailbroken'; whatever that means; and they do not guarantee that everything works after this 'jailbreaking';

too bad that even Apple punishes customers that buy into technology in an earlt stage;

[lin2log]

stoertebeker said:

too bad that even Apple punishes customers that buy into technology in an earlt stage;

Oh brother... sorry, but that is just about THEE silliest (and unfortunately ever reoccurring ugh!) line to date.

Yeah. If only Apple would STOP with their constant and annoying developments and advancements, huh?? I say, once I buys me a new system they can stop! I mean, we all know the world revolves around ME and MY needs, right? So what's up with that??

Man, I'm still totally miffed since I bought that Ethernet card for my LCIII for like $1K... and today?? They put it STANDARD into every machine!! The bastards...

[/facetious sarcasm]

l2l

[stoertebeker]

oh sister - first i am a little surprised about the style in which statements are commented, but it is sometimes easier than dealing with the facts; i am not blaming Apple for developing new products or making improvements or including features that you had to buy separately before;

I just have an issue when companies practise protectionism against third parties that just try to improve products because the initial supplier forgot some features or had other reasons to skip certain features (maybe pressure from marketing to launch something); history in technology prooves that this has never worked;

[Schneb]

It was a rather imature rant. Lin2log, the merits of your argument are lost with your attitude.