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www.agilemobile.com. They better make some serious improvements.
Important Announcement
Starting July 2005 we will begin charging a small monthly license fee for the use of Agile Messenger.
Three years ago Agile Mobile set out to develop a truly “agile” instant messaging client to provide seamless access to the instant messaging networks, wither it be from the bus, the beach or the gym, without sacrificing any of the functionality and power of the conventional desktop clients. During the initial development period we have allowed our loyal user base to use Agile Messenger for free. We want to thank everyone for their invaluable feedback, suggestions and bug reports, which have allowed us to make Agile Messenger into what it is today.
Agile Messenger is currently the most widely used and feature rich instant messaging and communication tool for mobile devices in the world. In order to make Agile Messenger even better and to be able to continue adding new innovative features it has become essential that we start charging a small monthly license fee. As much as our product is a labor of passion and as much as we’d love to continue giving our product away for free it has become necessary for us to expand our development resources and with that comes a substantial increase in overhead.
We will begin charging a license fee of a maximum of €2.99 Euro per month, charged directly to your phone bill. The exact monthly charge may vary from country to country depending on our agreement with the local mobile operators but will never exceed €2.99, or your local currency equivalent, in any country.
The date that we start billing will be different for different countries, again depending on our agreement with the mobile operators, but for most users the billing will start within the coming two weeks.
Please note that Agile Messenger will clearly inform you before you are charged and will ask for your explicit permission to subscribe to the new licensing terms, you will also be given an additional 7 day free trial when subscribing, during which period you can cancel with absolutely no charge. If you have not been asked to confirm if you wish to subscribe then you are not yet being charged.
We intend to develop the product and our support infrastructure substantially in the near future. One of the things that subscribers will notice immediately is that a new support forum has been made available where you may ask questions, report bugs and suggest new features directly to the Agile Messenger development team members. This is something that has been requested a great deal, but could not be delivered do to our limited resources; fortunately with this change that has been the first thing we have implemented. The forum can be accessed at:
http://www.agilemobile.com/support/
We sincerely appreciate the support and loyalty of all of our end users, and truly hope that you all remain our customer, as we assure you, we will not let you down.
[ This Message was edited by: MJB on 2005-07-27 04:43 ]
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Posted: 2005-07-27 05:41:41
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This is crap. I used Agile over the others because it was free, not because it was necessarily the best.
I guess I am gonna have to find another solution, because I don't think it is worth paying a monthly charge for this if I am already paying for internet to my mobile provider.
I wouldn't mind paying once up front for a small amount, but I am positively not paying a monthly fee.
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Posted: 2005-07-27 05:49:12
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Sad. Sad. Sad.
A one-off feewould be acceptable to me, but certainly not a monthly fee.
Time to say goodbye to Agile
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Posted: 2005-07-27 06:02:00
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awwww... it hurts
agile messenger is my main reason 4 using symbian phone!
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Posted: 2005-07-27 07:00:25
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On 2005-07-27 05:49:12, knight4led wrote:
I wouldn't mind paying once up front for a small amount, but I am positively not paying a monthly fee.
agree
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Posted: 2005-07-27 08:17:08
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I feel so sad. I had a lot of fun with Agile messenger. :-( Monthly fee is nonsense.
This message was posted from a Nokia
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Posted: 2005-07-27 08:36:36
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It was so pretty to be true. Will users stop using Agile messenger? BTW, wap-messenger service is still working and is cheaper
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Posted: 2005-07-27 09:27:25
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I already pay my GPRS monthly and expensively. If someone finds some other free im software please let us know
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Posted: 2005-07-27 12:02:00
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I am not going to pay per month for it. Its not worth it. Looks like Agile are going to loose a lot of users.
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Posted: 2005-07-27 12:19:19
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A monthly fee?
How do they intend to charge that to my account?
What a total load. I one off fee would be worth paying, but monthly? The only time I use Agile is when I'm bored and not near a PC. Paying a monthly fee so I can chat while I'm washing my clothes at the laundrymat? No thanks.
Time to check out the other IM Clients and buy one of those.
Bye Agile - You were great when you were free and you'd still be great as a one-off, but monthly? Forget it.
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Posted: 2005-07-27 12:27:32
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