Best Applications For The iPod Touch and iPhone:Communications

I’m sure that many people who received either an iPod Touch or iPhone for Christmas this year are looking for good applications for their device. I’m going to do a series of posts on the best applications by categories of apps. All applications I’m review are currently running on my 2 generation iPod Touch.

As I’ve written before, I love the iPhone, but I don’t like AT&T. The iPod Touch is perfect for people like me that love their Blackberry phones and Verizon service, but still want the utility of the iPhone.

Communications
Skype (free) is a voip app that allows you to chat free to other skype users and allows you to make voip calls. I’ve used this app to make short calls and it worked fine. I don’t believe it’s of such a high quality it should replace your phone, but it’s very useful if you want to chat with users for free. If you have an iPod, you’ll need headphones with a microphone (standard iPhone headphones work perfectly with the Touch.  You can download Skype here.

BeeJiveIM ($6.99 USD) is a mobile muti-platform instant messaging client. It’s a mobile version of desktop type multi-platform instant messengers like Pidgin or Trillian. I use the Blackberry version almost every day, but I don’t find the iPod version of the app as useful. Granted it is the most stable multi-platform application I’ve used, but that’s not  reallysaying too much. The navigation on the iPhone version is confusing and not very intuitive.  If you have a Windows Mobile or Blackberry phone, I suggest using the BeJiveIM application there instead of this appliction. You can see it in action in the video below and you can download it here.

TouchLife ($2.99) – Is essentially a mobile bare bones IM client for Second Life. It’s pretty limited on what you can do in world  but if you just want to jump on to talk to friends, this is perfect. You can download it here.

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