Palringo – feature-filled IM client for power users

There are no shortage of Instant Messaging clients for Windows Mobile and Symbian, and it takes quite a bit to impress us here at Pocket Picks.

Palringo is a new multi-platform IM app for Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Windows and Java that might just make the grade.

Palringo supports all the popular  IM services (Google Talk, AIM, MSN, etc)  as well as its own network.  The most significant difference between Palringo and these other services is the addition of Vioce and Picture messaging.  Using your phone (or PC) you can take photos or short audio clips and send them to your Palringo contacts.  You can also send these through to some of the other supported networks, where they will appear as a web link to the hosted file on Palringo’s server.

If you are a heavy IM user perhaps the most useful feature is the ability to sign in to multiple instances of each service.  I use one Google Talk account for work and another for chatting to friends and updating Twitter, etc, and this is a feature I have been waiting for for a long time.

There are still a few rough edges – new IM conversations can end existing ones, for example – but these are being worked on by the Palringo development team.

Palringo is a free download, available here.

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