Gizmo5 – Mobile Web IM, SMS, Email and Calls

Gizmo5 has a new mobile web front end to their IP based Internet telephony and messaging platform. It’s sort of the Swiss Army Knife of mobile web based communications. Gizmo lets users communicate by IM on nine different networks and by SMS, e-mail and voice – all from a single integrated contact list. Gizmo5 is often compared with Skype. Both let you make free computer to computer calls and low cost calls to phones worldwide. Unlike Skype though, Gizmo5 is … Continue reading

Heysan – Mobile IM

Heysan (heysan.com, mobile m.heysan.com) was another of the startups which demoed at the Mobile 2.0 Event. It’s a mobile web based IM client supporting AIM, MSN and ICQ – with support for GTalk and Yahoo IM “coming soon”. Features include the ability to use multiple services simultaneously, a single buddy list across all services, threaded conversation view and auto refresh. I’m not really much of an IM user but I wanted to get a feel for this service so I … Continue reading