Test your hearing! Find out the real limits of your phone audio!

Google buys Motorola's mobile arm, Android App Creator gets the boot and Facebook tries to unite all smartphone owners under a common messaging banner.

With your BlackBerry in hand, you never need to be disconnected from your favorite IM client

The next version of Windows Phone, known as Mango, boasts upwards of 500 improvements and has been highly anticipated for some time. We get a hands-on demo at X11 in Toronto.

The free edition of AIM for the iPhone attempts to simplify the process of sending messages and keeping in touch with your contacts through a number of different social networks.

The latest in cheap and free VoIP with Skype

Paltalk is not your everyday instant messaging client.

From the CTIA 2010 show floor, Andrew learns about the first fully rugged messaging phone, Casio's GzOne Brigade

Jay takes a look at the new Facebook Messages flow that invites you to group all of your written communications in one place. Email, Facebook, SMS and IM. If Facebook has its way, it'll be the One Messaging Platform to Rule Them All.

LG's Optimus Chat (LG-C555) is a smartphone-ish slider that is underpowered by smartphone standards but, when it comes in under budget, can be forgiven.