If you're in the app, simply double-tap a contact to initiate chat. Messaging is a simple affair, as it should be. Read on for more on picture messaging, chatting and push notifications. Pictures of the preferences in the gallery. Once in preferences, the buttons become standard iPhone UI, which is good, because there are bunches of switches. By using the pop-up menus you can drill down into anything, but mostly contact management and preferences. It's a nice visual touch, and if you want to back out of a menu just tap anywhere else on the screen but in the menu - slightly faster than a dedicated Back button. There's a setting to auto-connect in the preferences, if you'd rather skip a step.Īgile's menus use rounded rectangles everywhere, and pop up like the old VH-1 series, Pop-Up Video. If you want to change your status, you have to change each account separately, instead of one global change. You can change this behavior in the app's preferences but you can only toggle it off. In addition to your status, Agile adds the "Mobile with AgileMessenger" message, which I could do without. Once you are connected, Agile sets your status to "Available." If you close out of the app the defaults will set your status to "Away," although I soon changed it to keep me available even if I close out the app. I'm told they are working to change this. You can only log in to one account per service, however, so if you have 2 Google accounts, you're going to log in to one at a time. There's support for ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Jabber and Google. These switches make it easy to see what you're connecting to when you tap the Connect button. The first screen in Agile Messenger is a series of switches for each protocol supported. Oh, and we're giving away five promo codes so you can try it yourself, just check the end of this post. We'll have a hands-on with Beejive later, but this is how Agile Messenger (iTunes link) works. The obvious comparison will be to BeejiveIM, since they both do the same thing: provide a multi-client chat app offering push notifications on your iPhone. Agile Messenger was recently updated to support iPhone OS 3.0's push notifications.
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