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| Palringo Brings First Push-to-Talk Application to the iPhone 'Push-to-talk' — the voice equivalent of text messaging (SMS) — has come to the iPhone for the first time. Promised as 'soon' when it launched its service for the iPhone on July 29, Palringo has added the vocal instant messaging functionality to its rich messaging application available from Apple's App Store. The concept of push-to-talk varies in popularity around the world. Currently, in the United States, both Verizon and Sprint are promoting their push-to-talk services as alternatives to each other. However, both of these options lock customers into both a specific device and a specific network. Palringo does neither of these things, being entirely operator-independent and also working on almost every handset released in the last two years. Most recently the company added RIM's BlackBerry platform to a list that already includes Windows Mobile, Symbian and Java-based devices from manufacturers including Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung, HTC, HP and Sony Ericsson. Palringo integrates with several existing popular instant-messaging services: AOL's AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber and Windows Live Messenger. People can also use Palringo to contact their friends using iChat, Apple's IM client. Palringo for the iPhone is free and easy to download and install from Apple's App Store. There are no hidden costs, catches or other charges. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |