Palringo is an novel Mobile Instant Messaging client for mobile phones and PCs. Palringo allows you to instantly exchange text, photos, and vocal IMs with groups or individuals. I use this software on my T-Mobile MDA and I love it. It is a very simple and straight-forward instant messaging application that does not slow down my phone! If you sign up for one of their free accounts, you can instantly send photos and audio messages to other Palringo members.

The multiple platform support enables you to stay in touch with your contacts whether you are working at your PC or on the go with your mobile phone. With Palringo, you can keep in touch with friends on popular instant messaging services such as ICQ, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, AIM, and Google Talk. That’s just the start though! See anything interesting? Just snap a photo and send it to your friends instantly. Don’t like typing on quirky mobile phone keypads? With Palringo, you can just talk naturally in the form of short voice clips – think of it like a Walkie-Talkie on steroids.

I just finished getting the Android SDK installed and running (with emulator) for the open source Google Phone dubbed Android. The SDK comes with a nice plugin for the open source Java IDE, Eclipse. After battling a little with the my installed Java SDKs, I was able to get the emulator and compiler working beautifully. The GUI in the emulator is already outdated and will be replaced by a different one in the actual release.

It is quite nice to have all this running on my Ubuntu laptop, using an open source OS, with an open source language, with an open source IDE, for an open source phone. Google is hosting a competition for new applications developed with this SDK. I will of course be taking a whack at it, hopefully getting somewhere. Keep an eye out for updates on my wins and losses with this adventure.