Yahoo Messenger for PPC

[Dave Beauvais]

Does anyone use Yahoo Messenger for Pocket PC? I used it occasionally for a few months and suddenly it stopped working a few weeks ago. It will start, but refuses to actually connect. Yahoo Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com/) for PCs and Trillian (http://www.trillian.cc/) both connect just fine on the same home network, so I don't believe it's a LAN-related problem. All other Internet-related apps on the PPC work perfectly. Does anyone else have problems with it? I'm using v2.3.4.0. (Enough points in there, Yahoo?)

Addendum: I was going to add links to the above post, but it seems Yahoo no longer provides Palm or WinCE/Pocket PC versions of Messenger on their site. At least now I know why it stopped working...

Thanks, anyway!

--Dave

[Sparkomatic]

Wow! I just tried my Yahoo Messenger and it doesn't connect either. I can't believe they're not supporting PPC's anymore.

Anyone know of an all in one chat program for PPC's?

[Dave Beauvais]

...Anyone know of an all in one chat program for PPC's?
I think the only one that's in the works now is Ruksun's im2go messenger (http://www.ruksun.com/mobile_im/im_platform/index.html). Most of my friends use Yahoo IM or AOHell Instant Messenger, so Trillian on my PC is a really great program to have around. I like the way MSN Messenger on the Pocket PC integrates smoothly with the UI -- if Messenger isn't the active application when a new message comes in, for example, it pops up a system notification bubble. ICQ and Yahoo Messenger for Pocket PC don't do that. I don't do much IM on the Pocket PC because text input is cumbersome, but it's nice to have the feature available for short conversations. Now Yahoo is gone on the Pocket PC, which means about 80% of my contacts are now only accessible on my laptop or other PCs.

As an aside, I'm getting tired of Yahoo in general. Their pages are loaded with pop-up, pop-under, and big intrusive Flash-animated ads that obscure the content of the page until you click the "close" button. I paid for their POP3/forwarding service because I check all my e-mail accounts with Outlook and felt that was a valuable service worth paying for. I dread having to actually go to a Yahoo page, however, because it almost always spawns at least one pop-under ad and the Flash ads are really annoying. The most frustrating are the ones that zoom across the screen while I'm reading something. Why do advertisers think people like stuff like that?

--Dave

[Dave Beauvais]

Found that the download pages (http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mesg/mobile/index.html) for the WinCE/PPC and Palm versions are still there. (The software still won't connect, though, so I guess there's no real reason to download it.) Also, the Help/Feedback form (http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/ce/cebugs-form.html) is there to fill out, but when you try to submit it, you get a server error stating that a file doesn't exist on the server to process the form. Thanks, Yahoo. I just wasted five minutes filling out your stupid form to ask why you've apparently discontinued the software.

--Dave

[icatar]

:x Shoot! I just got my wireless setup at work and was all ready to IM wirelessly. My company has standardized on Yahoo, so going another route is not viable.

[Steven Cedrone]

Have you tried JabberCE?

http://www.movsoftware.com/jabberce/jabberce.htm

"Communicate with AOL, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Chat users!
Easy setup and use
Wireless capable
Encrypted communications (SSL) support
Support for most Windows CE devices-including the PocketPC!
Automatic new version notifications
Offline message queuing
SOCKS5 proxy server support
Seamless offline/online operation
Free!"

Steve