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June 21, 2010 at 8:14 pm #32372Doris KenneyParticipant
The official iPhone app became available in a limited area (US, UK and France I believe) for download today. I was really excited to see this come out and I downloaded immediately. It has a very Wave 4 feel to it with the social feeds being quite nice.
I was a little disappointed that it didn’t feel as intuitive as I’d like. There are no obvious settings within the app and no help/about that I can see either.
To change online presence you must tap on your display picture to choose away, invisible etc. And speaking of display pictures – if you have your desktop client set to allow it you can log into the iPhone version at the same time (despite what a lot of comments are saying) but it seems to remove my display picture when I do that and until I log out of the iPhone – putting it back doesn’t seem to work.
And even though you get the message you are logged in and the conversation will be viewable in 2 places – it doesn’t appear to be working that way. I can have 2 conversations going (one on desktop and one on the phone) with the same person and they are no way integrated. If I step away from my desk, my iPhone does not give me a push alert that I have a new chat unless I actually log out of the desktop version.
There also does not appear to be any way to rearrange contacts based on status at the moment. For anyone with a large contact list that could become annoying. I’m sure we’ll see improvements as time goes on and maybe this will be one of them.
All that said – messenger does certainly function as a semi-stand alone client on the iPhone. It has an appealing display/layout. I’m certain there will be improvements in the future, and it’s not a bad starting point for an official client for WLM on the iPhone – it’s just not quite as polished as I for one would like.
June 22, 2010 at 6:36 am #176929Jeff HesterKeymasterI downloaded it and gave it a try on my iPhone 3G, and came to pretty much the same conclusions. The social part was nice — and I was pleasantly surprised that it picked up photos from Flickr and other social media sites. However downloading the imagery was a bit sluggish over the 3G network. Wifi would be better.
I wasn’t too bothered by the UI, but I was surprised to see no way to sort or filter offline contacts. Not so good for anyone with a long list of contacts.
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