eBuddy is the latest in a series of reviews on mobile chat applications. We felt that this was one of the most exciting frontiers in the mobile space.

What is great about eBuddy is that it isn’t only mobile.. it is also web. Right from the home page though the mobile aspect is put forward. What is even cooler is from the mobile page you can chose two options : 1) to download a java version or 2) to use a browsing version.

Most users will obviously opt for the browsing choice to get to know better the service and whether or not it is any good. If you opt for the browsing you can always change and and download the java version. In fact on the mobile home page the java version is always promoted.

What is great and gives this service an edge of their competitors for the minds and hearts of users is that right from the start you can choose your language. And what a selection of languages they :

Then you can go about configuring your eBuddy, firstly by choosing the networks like MSN Live, Gmail, Yahoo Messenger, etc.. Like Heysan and the web competitors such as Trillian (which by the way now has a beta for iPhone) you can add several types of chat networks visible from one interface. This is extremely practical because if you have a bunch of contacts from different chat networks they are all visible in one place and all on your mobile!

Then you login :

And Voila you have all your contacts on MSN :

Or on GTalk :

And then basically it is easy as that you start chatting.

So what are my conclusions ? Well frankly eBuddy in browsing mode is obviously less ergonomic than in Java mode but it is the best possible solution if you don’t want to download or if you have an exotic phone that doesn’t have its Java version of eBuddy. Of what I have tested so far eBuddy is the best. Not by a lot compared to Heysan.. but you can tell that there is a larger more mature team behind their service.

Eva de Mel on MobilOpen

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