As my welcome post for the advertiser few days back, now I’m back for the review. It’s not a normal Instant Messaging software. It’s not an iTalk but it’s an iTalk Buddy. Yeah, it’s a buddy things. Do you have your own buddy? Hmm..Let me introduce the product.

ITalk Buddy InterfaceiTalk Buddy in General

Who is behind this cool software? The software being develop by the TM a.k.a Telekom Malaysia Berhad. After came out with several ideas for the local internet scenario, now they managed to have their own instant messenger.

Noted that this iTalkBuddy is a lot of different from the existing and established IM such as Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and also Skype but one thing that have similarity is the technology that being used. All these software utilize the VOIP technology for the voice services.

Download and Install

Care to try the iTalk Buddy? Proceed to their main official site to download. When first I download the software, a little bit shock for me to see the file was huge!! It’s a 25mb of files to download. Just imagine whoever using the dial up networking, they have to wait forever. This is the important thing for TM to take note on. Normally if the files is too big then it’s must have something not right at the coding sites.

Installation is like a breeze. Yeah, my PC buit based on AMD 64×2 processors with 4Gb of ram. So as for me, the whole process of installation would not take long, below 1 minute time. If you run a different PC specs, then the time will be a bit different.

I noticed that when the installation progress, the package came only for iTalk buddy. Then it prompted me for another installation for Moji (Another great 3D IM). I install both of them. Registration process takes a bit of time. It’s a simple process like similar like you register to any sites on net.

iTalk Buddy Features

iTalk Buddy comes with some great features. Listed below are the features highlight :

  1. PC to phone calls. Call friends on their mobile phones. It’s as cheap and low as 10 sen/min
  2. IM… do I need to explain? :-P
  3. Can transfer files/ scans/ internet sharing etc between your friends
  4. Offline services – no internet connection? Don’t worry you can still enjoy all of iTalk Buddy features.. How? Read on..

So how about all these features? I noticed that more interesting features are still being developed. I hope that TM will come out with these features fast or else it will be the same as other IM. The most interesting features that I personally like is the Sync content with RSS since I do a lot of reading other people’s blog. So this will be useful for a blogger like me.

ITalk Buddy - How To Find FriendsHow to Find Friends

At first when I install the software, I noticed that I have no friends using iTalk Buddy. So how I want to utilize it? Don’t worry as you can find your friends in there.

Do you see the orange button? The orange button is located at the left bottom of your iTalk Buddy software. Click the button and the menu will pop up and choose the search a buddy sub menu.

Like me I chose to see who is online and I added all of them. This is interesting because most of the users are online and friendly as well. LOL don’t believe me? I will tell you why?

Chat is fun using iTalk Mobile

Finally I managed to get a buddy to talk to. Her name is “zye” (I don’t disclose her real name). This cute girl is from Sarawak. What shocked me was, the girl is just only 16 years old !! Oh my God, just imagine a 28 years old single guy talking to the kid. By the way, she is so matured and manage to talk without any fear.

I did ask some questions about this iTalk Buddy as I’m new for all this thing. She did answer some questions that she knew. She used this iTalk Buddy because her girl friend invited her. I managed to do some screen shot on this and you can read it below :

I started to fall in love with iTalk Buddy. Will give the TM team chance to improve as this project can grow and the banner advertisement is a good tools for them to earn in the future.

 

Chat With Zye

Do You Know That You Can Chat Even When You’re Offline

This is another features that I want to highlight. iTalk Buddy comes with a great features that you will want to use it. Even you have no internet in your place, you still can chat on the LAN environment. How is that? Let say you are in the office with 100 staff. Imagine that everyone has the iTalk Buddy installed in their PC.

No need any extra configuration as the IM will do the search itself. iTalk Buddy will shows up who is available under the nearby section. This makes the iTalk Buddy different from the other Im software.

iTalk Buddy
iTalk Buddy now is even better. Previously when you use the Yahoo Messenger Audible function, there is a limitation for you. With iTalk Buddy now, you can always utilize to the max the 3D Moji (virtual intelligent pet). The Moji is your virtual pet that appears in a 3D format. You can show your emotions while chatting and guess what? It moves well.

Do you remember the Tamagotchi? It was so popular years back. It’s a virtual pet that you have to feed them or your Tamagotchi will die. Same goes to your Moji. If you don’t feed them, your Moji can die. MOji can interact as your friends and also your personal search engine.

Another great features is you can make call from your iTalk Buddy to either mobile or fixed line. The most interesting part is the call is much more cheaper. You can chat between your friends by calling PC to PC. It’s another great features by utilizing the VOIP. I did not try this yet but I do hope that the lagging is not a big problem.

Soon the new mobile blogging feature makes me feel so good becauseI can do it via the iTalk Buddy. I can always update the content of my blog with iTalk Buddy. It’s great. Either I’m on the Highland or islands I still can blog.

Conclusion

iTalk Buddy is a local made instant messaging system. I do hope that they will participate in the support forums in the official site. I noticed that most of the question still not being answered. The support forums should be more active. . The numbers of users are growing day by day and most of the users care much on the support.

There are a lot of improvements that the iTalk Buddy team might need to improvise upon the public release phase. After all, it’s a good thing to know that we as Malaysian can come out with the cool “more than IM” software. Malaysia Boleh !!

-add me on my iTalk Buddy : xbrain-

 


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