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Apps to Survive TRAI's SMS Cap

Bangalore: Should we really feel disappointed with TRAI's limitation on SMS? The answer is "NO". There is always a solution for everything. Similarly, to avoid this restriction of 100 SMSes per day for each SIM card, listed below are a few practical and handy apps for your phone, that help you be connected for ever and a day. WhatsAppLacking qualm, it's the best available IM App for any policy! The mobile number is your login ID and a nickname to keep your friends closer. Friends from your address book that are using WhatsApp are positioned in the Favorites category. You can have simple and clean text chats, share pictures, videos, voice recordings, and your location on a map. Although paid on iOS, it is liberated on platforms like Blackberry, Android, Symbian, and Windows Phone 7 Mango. Fring-The great way to stay connected to your buddies is through Fring. It's available for iOS, Symbain and Android for free. You can have an access to video chats or group video chats, live chats and voice chats. All you need to do is just register for an account and link your GTalk, AIM, ICQ or MSN accounts to it and get started. It can be downloaded from your phone App Store, or head on to m.fring.com! Kik Messenger-Available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7, Kik Messenger has over 4 million users. It has features like real-time chatting which informs you whe n a message has been sent, read, and even when the opposite person is typing. You can also share pictures, and even have group chats. You have to create a username and login, and then add those of your friends that are using Kik Messenger, and get going. eBuddyeBuddy is an awesome messenger that allows chat on Facebook, AIM, Yahoo!, GTalk, MSN and ICQ. It can be downloaded for free from the iOS App Store, Android Market, and Nokia Ovi Store. For other phones like Blackberry, you can check out get.ebuddy.com for the download. One more fact about eBuddy is that it also has a web messanger that allows you to chat directly from your phone's web browser Meebo-Meebo, available for iOS, Android, and Blackberry, comes free of cost. Alike eBuddy, it also has a web chat feature. The platforms that do not have the app av ailable can log on to meebo.com/mobile and chat. Meebo allows you to chat on Facebook, AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber. It can be easily downloaded from the respective App Stores. NimbuzzNimbuzz is software that links you to friends via the internet. The finest part is, even a low-end phone can run the service. You need to just Log in and you will be flooded with multiple options. Chat using text messages, make phone calls or send pictures and multimedia files, all this for free. All you need to pay is the internet usage charged by your telecom provider. Cnectd-Cnectd works on BlackBerry, Symbian, iPhone and Android phones. It can be downloaded from cnectd.getjar.com. The software uses very little of your phone's me mory yet the user interface are very refined, almost like BlackBerry Messenger. http://www.siliconind