Palringo Brings Facebook Chat To The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

[RossMission]

You can connect to a handful of popular IM services, such as MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, and even Jabber accounts. Gtalk is supposedly supported, but I can’t, for some reason, get that to connect. The newest addition, which has me excited, is support for Facebook chat! This is apparently still in alpha mode, so might be buggy, but it’s cool to see, nonetheless. Yu can see in the screenshots how the nice large buttons make it easy to use, and the contact list shows all of my friends across the various services that I’m connected to. I do have 2 complaints, though. First, while it was easy to use my finger to select the Contacts or Groups tabs, the Palringo main tab was incredibly difficult, since you can see it’s only their symbol. There is obviously plenty of space, perhaps future versions could say, ‘Palringo’ (with the P still being the symbol), to offer a larger space to tap. The other complaint is the lack of Skype chat.

Palringo also supports voice chat (sending audio clips, basically) and file transfer, though I’ve not much use for either of those on my phone, personally. There is also a location feature, which Dotsisx checked out previously, and found wanting. The only other free multiple IM-client for the 5800 XpressMusic, SlickIM from LonelyCatGames, has a poor user interface (not finger friendly at all) and doesn’t currently support Facebook chat, so Palringo is definitely the leader on S60 5th Edition, currently. I would like to see integration with say, Twitter and Skype,ultimately What networks would you like to be able to connect to?

[spyda]

Great... Palringo offer excellent support. Trying now. Thanks.

[maclondon]

hmmm
i downloaded it - it recognised my 5800 s50 v5 320x640 screen
but when it runs i get the 'virtual' keypad filling half the screen!
as i do on google mail :(

[spyda]

same happened to me first time. You have the wrong version for sure.

[dtm]

You have to disable virtual keys in the app manager which was implemented since v20

[spyda]

strange... I'm using v20 and never had to do that. I just downloaded a different version when I had this problem and it worked.

[maclondon]

Originally Posted by dtm

You have to disable virtual keys in the app manager which was implemented since v20

ah well im stuck on v11 sim free nokia store purchased red :(

[mkr100001]

does ebuddy not work on 5800? As facebook chat has been on there for a while

[demowayne]

quite liking this app, although id one service 'loggs off' theres no way log on again without exiting out of the app and opening again to make all the services log in again.

Unless I'm missing something?

[spyda]

Try long pressing on the service demo, under the 'p' menu, I think this is the status screen.

You should be presented with a list of possible states for that particular service. Just choose online from there :-)