There’s no shortage of instant-messaging options billed as ideal for the iPhone, but up until now unless you’ve wanted to pay AT&T for an SMS report each way next you’ve been forced to use a web-based client.  It’s not ideal – there are limits on what notifications and the like they can give, and it’s hardly integrated with the rest of the handset – but beggars can’t, as the saying goes, be choosers.  Now, though, there’s a very early beta of the iPhone’s first native IM client, Apollo IM, to be excited about.  Early days indeed, but the signs are looking good.

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Original post by Chris Davies