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Free international messaging app similar to BB IM?

Hello all!

I'm looking for an app that would work like the IM feature of the Blackberry, and be billed the same way. Currently, if you have the international feature turned on with your BB service (at least through tmobile), the IM charges you as if you are just using data. For example, a weeks worth of pretty heavy chatting with the wife while I was out of the country hit me for all of .37!! No per text fee, no roaming cause I already have an international plan, just the data per character of text.

Has anyone found any way to do anything like this with an iPhone? It is the last hurdle for us to switch over to iPhones.

Thanks!!

Posted on May 20, 2010 2:21 PM

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May 20, 2010 2:34 PM in response to Gaidin33

There is no app available for the iPhone that provides this for free. There is a messaging app called WhatsApp that requires internet access for exchanging messages. Each iPhone must have the app installed, and there is a Blackberry version. You can exchange text messages only, or exchange photos, an audio note, share your location, or share a contact. Whatever data is used exchanging texts or anything else that is supported is charged at international roaming rates for the data received and sent.

http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/

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Free international messaging app similar to BB IM?

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