Gallery: Top 10 free iPhone applications

by Jason O'Grady  |  July 18, 2008 11:32am PDT  |  Image 6 of 10

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#6 AIM

What else can you say about AOL Instant Messenger? It's been a long time coming and was desperately needed on iPhone. It's free and it works well but it's not perfect though.

For starters it should have the option of running as a full-time background application. I know that it will impact battery life, but it would be nice to have the option. Instead AIM uses Apple's unified push notification service, which is supposed to start in September.

AIM also is single protocol, meaning that it doesn't support Yahoo!, MSN or Jabber, but this leaves open a definite opportunity for third-parties. Adium to the rescue?

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