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Apple

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

By matthewmiller December 21, 2008, 12:38 PM PST

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Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Pinger Phone launch screen

Pinger Phone launch screen

Pinger Phone is a new application for the Apple iPhone that lets you view status updates and interact with your friends on popular social networks (Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace). You can use it to replace your Phone utility because you can also quickly access your Contacts and now have one touch buttons to interacting with them. The IM client supports Yahoo!, AIM, Windows Live, and Google Talk with a landscape keyboard for optimized text entry. A dialer is present too in case you want to call a different person.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Setting up accounts

Setting up accounts

You need to add accounts to interact with your friends. IM and social networking services are supported in Pinger Phone.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Yahoo! account setup

Yahoo! account setup

You need to go in and setup each account that you want to view in Pinger Phone. This is a one-time setup process.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Viewing Friend News

Viewing Friend News

This screen shows how all your friend updates appear. You can view Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace updates and interact with your friends from this display.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Interacting with a selected friend

Interacting with a selected friend

After tapping the Pinger icon then this pop-up gives you options for interaction with your friend.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Send your friend a Twitter message

Send your friend a Twitter message

Here is an example of how to send your friend a Twitter message from Pinger Phone.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Link your friends

Link your friends

By linking your friends you will be able to view their online status in your Favorites or Contacts list.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Email linking

Email linking

Enter email if it is missing from the contact’s database.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

More options

More options

You can view more options about your friend or add them to your Favorites.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Contacts list

Contacts list

As you can see in the contacts list, the methods for interaction all appear as tappable boxes/icons. Simply tapping on the word will let you send or contact your friend in that manner.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Viewing your Favorites

Viewing your Favorites

You can add friends to your Favorites screen for faster access than through the Contacts screen.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Instant Messaging status

Instant Messaging status

You can view the status of your friends when you tap the IM icon on the bottom. You can then tap a friend to initiate a conversation.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Chatting with a buddy

Chatting with a buddy

Active IM chats rotate to landscape so you can have a more usable keyboard for faster text entry.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Pinger menu in landscape

Pinger menu in landscape

You can also interact from within the IM client.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Smileys support

Smileys support

There are a few smileys included too for adding a bit of style to your IM.

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

IM from data to text

IM from data to text

You can also chat with a person via text messages from within Pinger Phone.

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