This is my first public release of an application that I made for Windows Mobile. I use Google Chat a lot, and felt the need of an application specific for that , which didn’t require third party registrations. There are a couple of them which connect directly to Google chat, but are paid. This is a restricted beta (for now), which I will provide on first come basis. Developers are welcome to share thoughts and help to improve this product. The aim is to develop a Windows Google Chat client replica for mobile platform.
Public Beta will be available shortly after the initial testing is complete.

(v0.1 Beta)

● Text messages
● Avatars
● Finger Touch/Scroll Friend List
● Marquee for long status messages
● New email notification
● Tab based Chatting
● Notification on new Message (sound + vibrate)
● Detect Invisible Users
● Friend list sorted just like Windows client (Gtalk) on basis of availabilty and name.
● Cool GUI

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There are quite a few other articles that too tell you the essential applications for you “pocket pc”. What I am going to focus here is more on the usability factor, and these are apps that I use myself. I prefer using freeware alternatives to the commercial ones, so I will also compare a freeware with its commercial counterpart if that exists. Windows Mobile has immense functionality to let you perform what you can from a laptop. So here we go.

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