Does iPhone have any apps for ping'ing like Blackberries?

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Does iPhone have any apps for ping'ing like Blackberries?

I have an ordinary LG cell phone which i can hardly wait for the contract to expire. Furthermore, I hate blackberry phones. I want an iPhone to be my next phone. However, is there any apps that work like blackberries ping'ing each other? I the blackberry world, this is instantaneous messaging --->as opposed to regular texting whereby a text can take up to twenty minutes for the recipient to get a text sent from, say, my lousy LG cell phone.

mac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Apr 9, 2010 7:34 PM

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ogopogodude Author

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Apr 9, 2010 7:35 PM in response to ogopogodude

BTW, the reason why i hate blackberries is the numbers are too small to read as well as too hard for me to use my thumbs and fingers, etc,---->Therefore, I want an iPhone period. But i sure like the pin'ing (spelling?) that blackberries can do.

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ogopogodude Author

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Apr 12, 2010 2:28 PM in response to ogopogodude

Can anyody comment? It's o.k., ... i don't bite.

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Apr 12, 2010 2:31 PM in response to ogopogodude

Its called email between accounts where Push is activated - instant email ?

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Tamara

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Apr 12, 2010 3:24 PM in response to ogopogodude

Most of us have never used a BB and aren't familiar with what you are talking about.

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paulcb

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Apr 12, 2010 4:12 PM in response to ogopogodude

There are IM apps that might work for you. Search here... http://appshopper.com/

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ogopogodude Author

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Apr 13, 2010 10:03 PM in response to paulcb

email is only as good and as fast as the ISP available and texting is only as good as one's cell phone carrier. BB's, I must admit, are amazingly fast like a bzillionth of a second with like zero delay, .... UNLIKE email or texting. When i text my wife from my LG cell phone to her identical LG cell phone using Telus mobility, there can be as much as twenty minutes until the text is delivered (i sht you not, ....as we tested it on several occasions the time it took for a text to go from one phone to another and we were sitting right beside each other). BB's don't have any delay.... none/zero/goose-eagg/nada.

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Dave_Jkt

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Apr 14, 2010 12:20 AM in response to ogopogodude

Blackberry (BB) has its own BB Messenger (BBM), similar to Yahoo, MSN, Google or AIM Messenger. Unlike other messangers, BBM is accessible to only to BB users around the world.

Ping in BBM is similar to Buzz on other messangers, but just like any messangers, you can only ping / buzz to other users on the same messangers.

There is an application called BB Connect that allows mobile phone from other manufacturers to use BB services (mostly Nokia, Sony Ericsson and HTC), but unfortunately not for iPhone.

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jolyons

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Apr 14, 2010 1:37 AM in response to ogopogodude

i am not sure if there is an app or not but i have had a blackberry and a iphone. If you feel the number or buttons are to small on a blackberry you will have trouble with the iphone as the touchscreen for txting etc is hard to get used to as it thinks i am pressing a differnt letter.

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lozibear

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Apr 28, 2010 12:36 PM in response to ogopogodude

maybe you should buy a blackberry storm fone they are touchscreen fones,you may find it a bit better than an iphone, ive found it rather dissapointing, as there's no flash no radio, you can't use bluetooth with any other fone except iphone or ipad, & there's only 6 text message tones, & you can't add any more, oh yes & the battery is lousy, you have to charge it up every night, & that's with everything off, ie bluetooth, push messages ect.

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