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Google Talk for BlackBerry

March 9, 2006 by Robb Dunewood 23 Comments

Update: Google Talk for BlackBerry

So, I finally had some free time to play around with Google Talk for BlackBerry and I even though I only have about of 30 minutes in the app, I am going to go ahead right now and say that it is the best free Instant Messaging application out for the BlackBerry.

To make a long story short Google Talk for BlackBerry works and it is fast. It doesn’t seem like it takes messages anymore than a second to send or receive from the BlackBerry or the desktop running the Google Talk client. I won’t say that it is instantaneous, but at least for me on my BlackBerry 7130e, it is darn near close.

It looks like Research in Motion and Google have released Google Talk for BlackBerry and it can be downloaded here. Google Talk runs on all 7100, 7200, 7500, 7700, and 8700 series BlackBerry devices running BlackBerry OS v4.00 or higher.

I will download and install Google Talk for BlackBerry first thing in the morning so be sure to check back later as I will put up my first impressions.

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  1. Chris Whisonant says

    March 9, 2006 at 7:56 am

    Thanks for the heads up! I have it running now… Great to have now that my wife uses Gmail – she can ping me on the road now!

    You can go to http://www.blackberry.com/GoogleTalk/ on the device to download OTA.

    Reply
  2. Greg Simmons says

    March 9, 2006 at 8:36 am

    Very slick app. Seems to work very smoothly. Actually seems to work better than Ramble. Hat tip to Chris for letting me know it was available.

    Reply
  3. Lluis says

    March 9, 2006 at 12:33 pm

    Why the hell I can not download it from Europe !!! Can someone please upload it somewhere?

    Thank you.

    Reply
  4. Dave says

    March 9, 2006 at 5:02 pm

    Yes, this is undoubtedly a very slick application. I spent some time with it today and did a writeup at BlackBerry Today. Very impressive application.

    Reply
  5. Vman says

    August 8, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    Any idea How long before you can do voice over google talk via BB?

    Reply
  6. Dave Chakrabarti says

    December 27, 2006 at 9:23 pm

    Any idea if this uses internet airtime or a text message per IM? Tmobile apparently charges per IM (as a text message) each time you message, so I’m trying to figure out which apps (if any) I could use that route messages over the internet instead (since I have unlimited bandwidth).

    Thoughts?

    Thanks!

    Dave.

    Reply
  7. Chew says

    January 1, 2007 at 5:39 am

    Same as Dave. It would be very useful to know if per IM is charged. Does anyone have a list of apps- those that are charged and those that are not (for some of us on “unlimited”).

    Reply
  8. Rob says

    February 5, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    I just got off the phone with Cingular about this. They gave me a definitive “we don’t know”. They said they would look into it and call me back after my billing cycle ends. I’m going to hold my breath now.

    Reply
  9. Alli says

    March 30, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    anyone know why it says my password and user name is invalid on the berry but works fine on the computer…what am i doing wrong help?

    Reply
  10. kate says

    April 12, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    i just got off the phone w/ tmobile and the gtalk sends as a text message. i downloaded it for my phone and every time i sign in it says does not have the required service books. what does that mean?

    Reply
  11. Cherie says

    July 8, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    Please I continue to get the error message “Handheld does not have the required service books” anyone have any idea where to download the required service books?

    Reply
  12. M says

    September 29, 2007 at 4:23 pm

    same trouble here… someone please suggest something. have a company’s Pearl 8100.

    Reply
  13. Sunil says

    August 27, 2008 at 8:19 am

    I got the same error while signing in. Then i tried using my userid@googlemail.com and it works perfectly.
    I hope they support voice call on soon.

    Reply
  14. GB says

    November 17, 2008 at 10:21 am

    Google Talk is apparrently incompatible with the Bold 9000 from ATT. I get the following message
    Sorry, your device does not meet the system requirements that are needed to support Google Talk.

    Reply
  15. Anshuman says

    February 28, 2009 at 9:54 pm

    Guys,

    GTalk is not incompatible with BB Bold 9000 (AT&T). I actually found a way to make it work on mine. You just have to type in the following URL (and not the standard one) in your bb browser –
    http://www.blackberry.com/devicesoftware/entry.do?code=gtalk

    Reply
  16. Darron Mark says

    July 9, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Nope, that didn’t work either (your little link). Still getting the ‘Username and Password didn’t match’ error… Pain in the hole…

    Reply
  17. Anusha says

    June 14, 2010 at 4:30 am

    Hi, I tried loading and it gives me the service not enabled for this handheld error.

    Reply
  18. eldonfranko says

    November 4, 2010 at 7:59 am

    Nope… it still dont work!!

    Reply
  19. Lin Lin says

    December 30, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    Use Nimbuzz for all IM 4 ur BB!

    Reply
  20. Deviously_divine says

    April 20, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    I use GT on my BB Bold all the time but it seems that if the phone is idle for long periods of time I am automatically logged or get an “unexpected error” message. Sometimes it looks like I am logged in and I am not. HELP!!!

    Reply

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