Ever wondered going online on your mobile or messaging anyone for free ??? You don’t need a superb handphone to do that. A simple java enabled phone will allow you to go online and text for free.

For now, in Malaysia I guess only Maxis and Celcom users will be able to use this service as DiGi has not yet improved their GPRS services. I’ve been looking around for a long time to text for free through GPRS. Eveytime I found one, after a few days it can’t be used.

Now this is one of the cool softwares I found. This software allows you to text your friends and also get online in MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, ICQ and AIM for a very very low rate.

BING

This means you can be online wherever you go. Among all the softwares I’ve used, this is the cheapest I have found. This software is really cool but it has defects as well. It is not really reliable all the times. Sometimes you can’t log in or some times your contacts will not be there although they are online. I am using Motorola SLVR L7, I had some issue where it will hang when too many people text you at the same time. But my friends who tested it on Nokia, Samsung, and even Motorola had no problems. And also, to use this service, both parties must on the software. It’s sumthing like you got to log in to chat. This will not be usefull if you need to send only 1 message but it will be usefull if you are gonna chat for long. You just need to inform your friend to get online on Bing and then text all you want in it. In my experience, I have used the software for about 30 minutes of chatting and it cost me 10 cents.

You can have it a try.
Download the software at their official webpage,
www.bing.im

I have come across other cool softwares too. I will post more about it later.