Flutter and Palringo reviews – excellent applications for iPhone
- Friday, February 6, 2009, 10:55
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It is a well known fact that iPhone has a lot of loop holes in its built-in Text application. In this field, Palringo and Flutter both have attempted to fill this gap. In the iPhone, the text can send SMS messages but is incapable of sending pictures through the Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS. Flutter is a product of Juice Wireless. It is a simple MMS iPhone application. It acts as a pseudo application. Using this application, you can send your current location and images from your iPhone to people. As the features, the application acts as pseudo because it does not send images directly to the receiver. It posts the images on a Web site and forwards a text message to the recipient with an embedded link. The recipient has to follow the embedded link to see the images.
As far as creating and sending messages is concerned, you just have to type in the recipient’s name/ phone number and you will automatically see a filtered list of possible recipients. Flutter can recognize a contact from just mobile numbers as well. Now your task is just to put a subject to the message and attach an image. As you send the message, the recipient will receive a text message containing the link to the juicecaster.com site where the image sent by you is hosted. A downside here is that as Flutter uses a Juicecaster.com SMS ID to deliver messages instead of your cell number, these messages may look like spam to the recipient and you may not get any.
Palringo, by Palringo Limited, however is the better of the two applications. You can send text, images, and audio directly to any recipient who has a Palringo application on the mobile device. But if the recipient does not have Palringo, the messages you send are sent via commercial IM services like AIM, MobileMe, and GoogleTalk. It can be said that Palringo is essentially a specialized chat application and not an SMS messaging application. You can not send a text message from Palringo to a cell phone number.
Flutter supports any iPhone running the iPhone 2.1 software update. Palringo, on the other hand, works with any iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone 2.2. Overall, these are good iPhone applications that are worth a try.
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