You chaps that get there before me, let me know about the Wifi details, I'll need that bigtime for my phone.
Not the whole trip, just while you are at hotspots. So if he is not on wifi and you ping him, he is not going to get it and you may not know he didn't get it (depending on how ping works, I am not too familiar with it. can you see who is online or not like an IM application?).
Yeah, I looked more into it too. Looks like it's just a push IM like SMS (except it uses the internet). It's not really a full blow IM application like BBM. With BBM, there is bi directional feedback. You can see people's status and tell if people have receive and if people have read your IM. IPhone users kept on saying PING is like BBM but it's more like a poor man's SMS.
which can be both, good or bad lol bbm is the best way to go, as its free and quite fast compared to IMs and SMS at times
Just as long as we get a wifi spot we're golden. As long as the msg goes through on our end, whenever the other person gets to a signal is all that matters. were going to be having long and engaging conversations in cancun. 1 recieved msg is really all thats needed. "meet at Charlies @ 9pm" "im at oasis-12pm" and so on.
Yeah, but you don't know if the other person is in range or not, that's the part that's going to be annoying. Say for example, BC->Sam: "I'll wait for you outside of Frogs" And Sam went out of range and BC doesn't know that so he end up waiting outside of Frogs for an hour. Whatever, it'll work part of the time. As you as you guys know you can't rely on it 100%, it should be okay.
