Sep 10
How to get MSN Messenger on your iPhone and more…
It’s not really a shocker that Microsoft doesn’t want you using your iphone to get MSN Messenger, they want to keep some exclusivity for their mobile OS. Unfortunately the Apple iPhone is leaps and bounds ahead of the mobile tech of the much larger Microsoft has been able to develop. I personally have owned and used every version to date of the windows mobile OS on a myriad of the latest phones, and they all leave you asking the same thing, I paid how mouch for this? Each phone had similar issues, the phone functionality was horrible, you were lucky if you could get the blue-tooth headset to sync in time to answer a call if you were out and about. Or better yet you try and place calls and find that you have to reboot in order to get it dial successfully. The OS wasn’t fast enough to play a simple low bit rate video without hiccups and snags, if you had more than one app open it crawled, web browsing was worthless and displayed all funky cause webmasters didn’t care about it, and to top it off was a bugger to manipulate something as simple as email.
I can honestly say the iPhone fixes all those issues, but lacks some fairly obvious and unfortunately highly useful features such as Voice dialing, copy and paste, and multiple email deletion. It also limits your email to only holding 200 messages which is pretty lame for 8GB of storage. Looking forward to the next firmware release, let’s hope they have a solution to at-least one of those issues in it.
We use MSN Messenger in our office for everything and were hoping that the web based version located at http://webmessenger.msn.com would work for us on the iPhones, want to see some cool error messages try visiting that page on your iPhone. There are a couple solutions out there but the best we’ve found is http://iphone.mundu.com , which coincidentally you can use it with the big four im tools not just MSN Messenger. We have been using it without issue for a while now and it gets the job done. Give it a shot, it’s free.
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October 11th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Update: If you are still using iPhone firmware 1.0.2 take advantage of tons of apps with this installer package here: http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/ . Check out the iVibe app, ha ha ha! Warning DO NOT INSTALL if you have 1.1.1 or later!
August 8th, 2008 at 9:24 am
i can receive emails on my hotmail account but can’t send, obviously my incoming/outgoing mail server info is not right. can you tell me what it should be set at? my ISP is AOL
August 11th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Try this, http://applevibe.blogspot.com/2007/08/mail-setting-on-iphone-aol-very-nice.html
October 7th, 2009 at 3:44 am
HI,
I too have used nothing but Windows Mobile Devices since version 2003. Then the Iphone came and was under a lot of pressure to get the Iphone (family uses ipods and iphones). So I succumbed to the temptation.
I ordered (at this point I read nothing about the Iphone and its problems) the Iphone 3Gs.
Nice device, fits nicely in hand. UI pleasing and simple, web browsing is fast and nice (using wifi) and only has 3G, no hspda and or hsupa. Ok, i’ll ignore these. it flips between wifi and 3G quite nicely. Not much aplications inside it. very minimal. You can view documents if they are attached to emails, hmmmm. Cant save docs , hmmm. not good. you cant switch between applications, you always have to go to home screen. Hmmmm, time waster. I am using soem app and heard a sound from the phone. what is it? close, go to home screen and search, oh oh …. a text message. that is daft. same for emails. where is the file system? how much memory/storage i have left? Unknown. Oh wait, that text message is good news from O2 and it says that my phone now (os 3.1) has mmms weeepeppeeee. WHAT?
other new features like CUT and PASTE, what the hell?
A compass, hmmm nice indeed.
Now I remember i entered an appointment for today? where is it? no display of today appointments? launch app to see, OH I SEE.
Hard to pair with other phones, good with car kit though.
Oh Maps, ok. Stock, ok, timers, ok. Photo , camera, youtube, ok ok ok. Ipod, aha, not bad.
calc, ok.
can’t organize texts by sender, ok.
Voicemail, hmm ok.
No flash, ok
I can go on and on.
At the end of the day, like you, I said to myself, “how much did I pay for this?”
Windows Mobile might not be pretty but hell, it is way more productive if you are that sort of person. Even the apps are better and much more sophisticated and serious. Above, way much freedom touse the phone and customize as you like.
How much did I pay for this? Indeed.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Well this post is over a year old and allot has changed. iPhone 3.1 now fixes every item on my rant list except msn messenger, which I doubt will happen. Meanwhile, what has windows mobile accomplished since? Nothing. I am really dissapointed in Microsoft, they had everything going for them, they were first to market with their phone years ago but absolutely failed at usability and cannot deliver cutting edge hardware. One thing every windows mobile phone has in common is that the hardware is no more advanced than it was in 2001, they just keep putting in these horrible apps made in india that barely work. Why not create a developer network that builds all the apps for you and make a cut?, sounds familiar. Come on MS you have all the money and resources to pull this off, hire some talent around that joint eh.