Comments on: ping! iphone app (sms style messaging)

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:13:36 +0000

You can find Ping! users at the Ping User Directory in Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/pages/PING-User-Directory/211339226409?ref=ts

By: David Goodwin

David Goodwin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:51:28 +0000

See also Ping! page on Facebook It seems a new version has been submitted to Apple (1.2) which will allow for pictures to be sent (similar to MMS, I assume). All good stuff.

By: Facetypaul

Facetypaul — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:48:30 +0000

Um….when I’m sitting at home and watching sumfin on the tv and wanna quickly ping a mate in “chat mode”, Ping is the way to go…using my wifi..it’s the dogs…btw – don’t be living in your parochial world…in Australia everybody isn’t on unlimited txt..and we still have internet quotas!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:32:39 +0000

I’m really struggling to see the advantages over regular texting. Most everyone I know with an iPhone has unlimited text messaging… you pretty much have no choice.

With the layout of iPhone texting (basically looks like an IM conversation already), that means that Ping doesn’t have the advantage that BBM has for blackberry users (because BB texting has crappy layout).

Plus, Ping is .99 cents now. I signed up, but going to be a tough pitch to get my friends on it… which makes it useless for me.

By: David Goodwin

David Goodwin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:44:07 +0000

(I should probably point out – ping relies on push notifications, so there’s no need for it to be running in order for it to receive messages).