Ok everyone… I must admit I am in love… with Hey San.. no it isn’t a Japanese gentleman.. it is Heysan! a mobile chatting site or should I say THE Mobile Messenger Service ?

Ok so lets go through it together and I will explain why I find this mobile instant messaging service the best out there. Lets start from the beginning.

Firstly When you go to the web page the site is extremly simple and uncluttered. They simply point you to their mobile site :

Normally on other sites you have to go through a lengthy sign up process on the web, choose your mobile, your carrier… here none of that. Straight to their mobile site.. Hey we are talking about the mobile web.. seems mots people haven’t got it like these guys do… So you go from your mobile.. to their home. And once again it is simplicity itself :

Oh.. did I mention, they support all the main instant messaging communities ? :

And did I say that there was no download ? It is just like MSN Web messenger.. you just login and start chatting. Before that you go about grabbing your contacts for each of your messenger programs.. If you are like me you have several.

Then you just do that for your other messenger services. And voila !

You can see all your contacts from your various messengers all in the same place much like Killian on your PC.

Up to now.. very good so let’s try chatting shall we ?

So as you can see it is simple as that. I would suggest that you all try it out. It is finally the mobile web made simple. And that is why I like it. Of course there are disadvantages like you have to refresh.. But for that there is a setting… you can choose auto refresh or you can simply hit the refresh button. On Opera I noticed that the refresh button didn’t always work. But on the iPhone it was perfect and on my Nokia E85 as well.

The advantage of not having to download is manifold. Firstly when you talk about downloads you automatically mean compatibility issues! That is why these guys are 5 people ! Because they are focusing on the usability of the service rather than on porting to hundreds of devices! Second of all you can access your account from any mobile device without having to download again. Thirdly you can get a new device without having to see if Heysan! has ported it.

Now when crunch comes to crunch how will they survive ? I mean financially ? For the moment they have some AdMob ads.. does this earn them enough money ? We shall see ?

Conclusion of the story.. These guys are great, they have a service that works really well.. within the limits of the the present technology and bandwidth. I can see obviously many improvements but I think that they are on the right path. Oh and one thing guys.. please add Skype!!

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