Free iPhone Instant Messenger - Get AOL, MSN etc on your iPhone

MobileChat is a chat client offered by TheBigBoss repository and its available for free via the iPhone installer. It looks very professional right from the word go and offers you a variety of account setup options when you start the app to allow you to access your AOL, .mac, XMPP, MSN or icq accounts via your iPhone.

Just click on the corresponding icon (MSN for us) and you simply enter your user name, password and click save. Simple as that. Now whenever you start up the program, you are shown of list of accounts you have set up within the App and allows you to log in to them by clicking the appropriate one in the list.

Log in was quick and simple and we had no problems in talking to our MSN buddies. You can set MobileChat to alert you via a sound or vibrate when you receive a message and also have the ability to keep the wifi connection alive even if your iPhone screen turn off via a settings in the options screen.

Another nifty feature is the ability to rotate your iPhone to landscape view to show you the bigger keyboard to make it a little easier for you to type in your messages, just as it does in Safari. You can also set your status as online, away or sign out etc and all online contacts are visible with a green icon beside them to show them as online, or red to show them as online but with a status set or away or back soon etc. It also hides all offline contacts to clear out all the clutter.

Its a great free app available via the installer, and if your an IM user, you got no excuse. Get it on your iPhone!

Rating: 5 out of 5