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Live Messenger iPhone app adds Facebook chat, iOS 4 fast app switching
Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone has just received an update, and it's a fairly significant one. If you've used Live's social connector to hook up to your Facebook account, you can now chat with friends who are signed in to Facebook chat via Live Messenger.Right now, however, the feature is only available in six countries: the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Brazil, and Russia.
The Live Messenger update also brings full support for iOS 4 fast app switching, which will be a welcome addition for mobile multitaskers. Filtering has been added to the friends list pane, making it easy to quickly locate the people you want to chat with.
Live Messenger is a free download from the App Store and it continues to receive positive reviews from users. If there was any doubt that Microsoft could build a good app for the iPhone, it should be roundly squashed by this point.
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Subscribe to commentsRichardSep 14th 2010 8:34AM
Is the Facebook integration as badly done as it is on the desktop version? Facebook users keep logging in and out during the chat session and WLM locks the input window (so you cannot type) when this happens - even if it is half-way through what you are writing.
In addition, it ignores all the categories you have and lumps everyone on Facebook into a "facebook" category. Given that my MSN contacts and Facebook contacts are categorised in broadly the same way ("home", "work", "friends", uni") it would be nice if it could display them grouped together in the categories of the same name - a la Digsby.
Oh, and what is with the stupid status update at the top which takes up a quarter of the screen (on a netbook) and cannot be hidden?
(grumble grumble)