16 February 2009

Talkonaut Gets An Update
And Support For 5th Ed Devices

Talkonaut is a feature-rich IM chat client that is based on Jabber protocol (supports SSL connection to Google Talk servers aswell) with built-in transport support for MSN, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ protocols.

We are pleased to announce the fifth release of our Talkonaut mobile IM chat and mVoIP application, available for Symbian S60 2nd, 3rd as well as for the 5th edition of S60 platform (Nokia 5800) since this version.

As usual, a great effort was made to meet users' feedbacks, solving innumerous issues and adding most wanted features.

But even greater work was made on improving graphical user interface, completely new graphics and style has been worked out.

With this fifth release
we introducethe following cool new features:

• Cool and slick graphics with whole new effects and icons.
• A greater support for touch-screen based devices, including Nokia 5800 for finger scrolling and inputs.
• Dynamically loadable, resizable and locally storable avatars.
• Dynamically loadable and locally storable and retrievable chat history.
• Timestamps and text highlitings both in IM chat and conference chat windows.
• Support for SRV domain records while connecting to third-party XMPP servers.
• Chat history files are now available through public folder (\Data\Documents\talkonaut for Symbian S60 3rd/5th).
• Both-ways typing notification fixed.

Note: avatars and chat history features can be easily disabled in Settings to reduce memory usage and traffic consumption.

Significant bugfixes:

• Drastically reduced power consumption hence longer battery life and joy.
• Yet more improved voice calls quality and clarity. Latest Speex 1.2rc1 library is used.
• Unavoidable crash on Symbian 9.3 while calling is now fixed.
• Increased speed of contacts rendering on huge rosters hence faster moves between tabs.

You can also use Talkonaut to make real and free VoIP calls over GPRS, EDGE, 3G or WIFI data connections to Google Talk, to MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM and iChat users as well as to SIP phones.

One can use Talkonaut to define one (or many) existing SIP accounts and make free or cheap (depends on your SIP provider) voip calls.