While third party Applications for the iPhone are hard to come by we have to resort to web based alternatives. The many Applications I have seen are either useless, mobile optimized versions of popular web sites or simply horrible. For 7 days I will be reviewing the better iPhone Web 2.0 Applications, not watered versions but fully functional Apps.
The first Application in my review of 7 will be FlickIM.
As you know the iPhone currently has no Instant Messaging application, the closest being the SMS Widget. We had a few alternatives such as Meebo or even using Google’s web interface for Gtalk but all of these took a burden on Safari and they weren’t the most elegant of way to initiate an Instant info conversation. that is where FlickIM comes in.
FlickIM is a web based AIM client for the iPhone, sorry that’s the only
You are met with a simple login screen asking you for your user name and password but there is no indication of protection through SSL or how your data is stored so take a measure of precaution.
The Instant report App allows you to switch amoung conversations and scroll through messages with the use of two fingers.
FlickIM is plus insanely fast on EDGE which is one of the very few Applications that can operate quickly on a slow connection and in Safari.
The App is straightforward, clean and useful. whether you’d like to use that App point your iPhone towards http://www.flickim.com/. I would highly recommend that App.
Original post by Chris
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