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Palringo, a messaging service that extends all the functionality of PC-based IM services like voice and picture messages to mobile devices, has released its client for select BlackBerry smartphones (Curve, Pearl, 8800 series).
Using Palringo, BlackBerry users can chat using voice and picture messages as well as traditional text. Furthermore, they can also chat with their buddies who use other IM clients like AIM, Windows Live Messenger and GTalk through the single Palringo interface.
Like some similar multi-IM apps, Palringo presents user’s contacts from all services into one combined, presence-aware list, thus eliminating the need to continually switch between multiple IM tools. In addition, Palringo’s “vocal instant messaging” combines walkie-talkie style voice chat, the real-time text functionality of IM and the ability to share pictures — all within the context of one “threaded” discussion.
Palringo’s BlackBerry application is available as free download from their website. Finally, in addition to BlackBerry phones, Palringo also works on smartphones running Windows Mobile or Symbian, as well as on Java-enabled feature phones.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
