Update 24 June 2008

Yahoo IM connectivity was fixed. You can again chat to your Yahoo contacts using Yamigo as a gateway for your phone.

Update 22 June 2008

You can send to your friends images via Yamigo, if the phone user interface allows it.

Update 19 June 2008

Service improved to support IMPS 1.2 New phones supported including and not limited to:

Nokia E90, N70, N80, E61

Yahoo connectivity is not currently working. MSN and AIM connections are working OK.

An Apology to our Users

You have surely all noticed poor service and lack of development over the last two years. We thought it is really about time to let you know what is going on.
We worked hard until late 2005 to develop a first-class IMPS service, since we strongly believe that traditional IM networks are not well suited for mobile phones. Also we wanted to make the service free, which would also allow us to test the software,
Unfortunately, even with the initial support of phone manufacturers, we have bitterly found that mobile operators are reluctant to adopt such a technology, probably not only because it's disruptive, but because of the tremendous interoperability challenges that remain to be solved.
The end result has been a sharp decline in our funding all the way to no funding. There is no support team any longer, and all we have time for is restarting the service once in a while. Even worse, the lack of any remaining cash means the service is at risk.
Of course, donations do help and are very much appreciated, but unfortunately are not a long-term solution. While donations help to pay 1~2% of our hosting fees, we require about €900/year just to keep the lights on.
We will keep the service running as long as we can, but we thought it would be fair to let you know that this service may cease to exist if don't solve the funding issues.
Finally, we have made a commitment to ensure that going forward we keep you better informed than over the last couple of years, even if the news are bad like this one.

Many thanks for your continued support and patience throughout these rough times.

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Yamigo brings to you a new way of chatting. Take your mobile phone and chat with your friends or colleagues. Send and receive instant messages to and from other phones and or PCs. Yamigo can communicate via mobile, PC or PDA.

Optimized for GPRS and 3G networks Yamigo is an implementation of the facto standard for mobile world chat, the Wireless Village specification. For more info see http://www.openmobilealliance.org and http://www.openmobilealliance.org/WirelessVillage/

YamiGo is more than just a chat service. YamiGo is all about information exchange and communication. You can easily subscribe to news feeds (eg sports events like football or Formula One) and receive live update commentary from the event. More about this feature will be made available very soon.

Notice

Please be aware that while Yamigo offers a free IMPS service which you are highly encouraged to use, mobile operators will still charge you per megabyte transfered over a GPRS connection. Yamigo is not affiliated in any way with any mobile operator, and we cannot be held liable for the mobile phone charges you may incur while using our service. Actual operator fees vary, and before using extensively our service we encourage you to investigate how your operator is charging for GPRS data transfer. It is also possible that your operator will charge you a flat fee for the data traffic.

Our recent experience proves that the Yamigo service is already a fairly stable solution able to accomodate a variety of mobile phones from an assorted collection of manufacturers.