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RIM soon to release native IM clients for BlackBerry

September 14, 2006 by Robb Dunewood 8 Comments

According to BlackBerry Forums Super Moderator, jibi, Research in Motion will start implementing native instant messaging clients for MSN Messenger, AIM, and ICQ quite possibly by the end of the year.

It appears most of these are almost final, and carrier implementation should start at some point (likely before year end). I’m going to guess that the MSN client is released first, followed by the AIM and ICQ clients (these should be released at the same time).

Lets just say that these native clients are long over due. Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk have been available for some time.

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  1. Josh Maher says

    September 14, 2006 at 11:44 pm

    Do you know if these are developed by other people or are they completely in house?

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  2. Robb Dunewood says

    September 15, 2006 at 12:20 am

    According to jibi over on BlackBerry Forums these clients will be from RIM.

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  3. Glenn says

    September 17, 2006 at 10:32 am

    I wonder also if since the apps will be developed from RIM if it will pull from the data or the text packages.

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  4. optimus says

    September 20, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    awesome. hopefully it will work like the google talk implementation, which is super elegant… active convos show in your inbox… that would be ideal

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  5. jibi@bbf says

    September 23, 2006 at 2:42 am

    These applications will be very similar to the Yahoo and Google Talk clients currently available from RIM. They will use data packages and not text messages, just like the current YIM and GT clients.

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