Windows Live Messenger for iPhone review

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Microsoft wants to bring in your social networks under its roof with its new Live Messenger iPhone app. Windows Live Messenger for iPhone and iPod Touch is finally official and available for free in the App Store. With this free iPhone app you can check your Hotmail, IM friends, view and comment on your friends’ photos and status updates from Windows Live, Facebook, and MySpace, and at a glance, see what your Messenger friends are sharing from Flickr, YouTube, and many other social and photo sharing sites.

Features of the app include:
- Send and receive Hotmail emails and get notifications when you have new messages.
- IM using Windows Live Messenger, Y! Messenger, and more.
- Update status for other networks including Facebook, Flickr and MySpace.
- Take and upload photos to share from your iPhone.
- MSN Smileys

Missing in the first revision are some basic features:
- There is no group chat support.
- You can’t block or delete contacts.
- You can’t sort contacts by status
- You can’t hide offline contacts

Up till now Windows Live Messenger users have been using either the web based version of MSN Mobile or 3rd party iPhone apps like Nimbuzz, IM+, Beejive, eBuddy, Meebo, Trillian and few others to chat on the iPhone over the Microsoft Live network.

Here is a video demo of the Windows Live Messenger for iPhone app on the iPhone

AppSafari Rating: 5/5

This 3rd Party App is available at the Apple iTunes AppStore. Browse the full list of all AppStore apps filed under the AppStore category.

Download Windows Live Messenger at iTunes App Store

Price: Free

Developer: Microsoft Corporation

Version: 1.2.3

Size: 16.01 MB

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App reviewed by Joe Seifi on June 20th, 2010 and filed under App Store, Chat, Featured, Social (Viewed 1648 times, 2 so far today). Need help on using these apps? Please read the Help Page.

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10 Reviews on “Windows Live Messenger for iPhone”

1. 1
   September 9th, 2010 at 12:51 am Tung says:

   Halo

2. 2
   October 30th, 2010 at 6:13 am Rogerio Guimarães Rocha says:

   msn no iPhone

3. 3
   November 29th, 2010 at 11:24 am Manny escamilla says:

   No funciona en mi puto cell

4. 4
   January 13th, 2011 at 2:06 pm Mohamed says:

   Bla

5. 5
   March 30th, 2011 at 9:30 am amy turner says:

   how do you get live messenger on a ipod touch

6. 6
   May 16th, 2011 at 8:41 pm Shannon says:

   This messenger is terrible I have no protection from spammers can’t even delete or block stalkersrs stick with ebuddy!

7. 7
   July 24th, 2011 at 10:26 am b2k-uk monkeh says:

   Rubbish. I can’t appear online to all my friends. I can’t always message my friends. All in all an epic fail. I rate you a 2 out of 5r and thats being generous

8. 8
   July 28th, 2011 at 10:56 am Joseph Ho says:

   b2k, try deleting the app then redownloading it. It won’t cost you anything and it might fix any problems that may come up during installation sometimes. If that doesn’t do it, try restarting your iDevice.

9. 9
   July 28th, 2011 at 12:01 pm b2k-uk monkeh says:

   I have del;eted it keep on deleting it and re-installing but same happens. Its doin my head in. I think i’ll just use safari for facebook. Till they sort it

10. 10
    October 2nd, 2011 at 8:36 pm Grace says:

    Why i cant be online on my iphone ?
    It always says that my email add and password are incorrect but if i use my pc it always work..
    What should i do, what appli should i download for me to have a msn messenger that work on my iphone ??