As you may have head, Xync, the Lync client for iOS from damaka is now available on the apple app store.
The iPhone and iPad apps are separate, $19.99 each. They could make the names a little clearer, I think a lot of people will miss this.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I work for Modality systems, and we also have an iPhone/iPad OCS/Lync app, iDialog, that works via the OCS CWA server for instant messaging and presence.
I had a quick play with the iPad app tonight on my iPad2. Note I haven’t tested on the iphone, please share if you have
It signed in over the edge, no additional server or setup on the Lync side, just sip uri, domain and password required.
Below are a few screenshots (click to enlarge)
Sign in screen
Once you’ve signed in you have all your contact groups
You can set your presence
The cog gives you preferences
Hitting the keypad on bottom right allows you to make a regular phone call
Clicking a user gives you the following options
Instant Message
Voice calls and Video calls
The video looks ok on the iPad, but it was blocky and slow to update on the Lync end. (both clients signed in over edge, together on good local Wifi)
Full screen (note the blue is just the ipad covering the laptop camera)
You can do other tasks while in a call and come back to the call (not sure why it says recording)
And the client will run in the background. It appears to run for the same 9 minutes or so that the modality client does, this seems to be a restriction around IOS’s capabilities
Incoming call:
Incoming IM
And it can handle multiple sessions
Overall it’s looking pretty good for a first release. I had no crashes when using it on the ipad2, I did have one instance where it was signed in on the ipad, but didn’t actually appear signed in from other Lync clients (no presence, IM failed), but a sign in and out fixed that.
Video isn’t exactly VGA or HD, but it works, looks far better on the iPad end than the Lync end.
It’s great to see an app signing in directly over the edge server with no extra setup on the Lync side.
I was testing with myself so didn’t really get a chance to test call quality/lag, I’ll post as I play a little more.
It would be good if there was a free limited trial for testing.
If anyone else has any feedback please share.
Update 12/10/2011: I’ve had feedback from a number of people that the client is quite buggy and that support is basically non-responsive. Similar story for the android client. Worth considering before laying down £20 for the client. – Tom
I installed Xync on my iPad2 (up to date sw/fw) 64 MB/3G. The application is able to auto-configure and log into the Lync server, but it crashes while it loads my contacts and their statuses.
Repeatedly.
On 3G cellular, crash.
On WiFI, crash.
On VPN, crash.
Posted problem on Xync website. No reply yet.
Thanks for sharing. I’ve heard of crashing on the android version but not the iPad. Have you tried reseting iPad to clear memory. Maybe try a different Lync account if you can, maybe there is a contact name/format on your list it doesn’t like?
Tom
Hi I have tried it on my iphone 3GS. Works great on wireless both internal and external but over 3G the app crashes all the time on sign in.
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i would like to try this buy the price is too much. I wish they could offer a trial period.
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Did you have an opportunity to test with a bluetooth headset?
No I didn’t sorry. Will see if I can find one to test with.
Thanks
Great review, more screenshots than the vendor provides. I spent 2 weeks emailing them asking for a trial/demo – I got no response at all, not even a “no”. From that, I can only imagine what their support would be like. I think I’ll be holding out for a less buggy version.
Thanks for your comment
Have you seen their website?…nothing works. They rushed this product out the door to cash in before a more stable Microsoft product hits the market.
Save your money! Microsoft will release their version soon.
Works well with our Hosted Lync solution. Sometimes however you need to start the iPhone App several times before you are able to login.
Even tested successful with video on 3G with t-mobile here in the Netherlands.
Promising for a first release !
I have tried Xync and have the following problems on iPad.
1. Phonecall. If I make a call fra iPad to iPhone over Xync (Lync network), it rings on my phone, when I pick up the phone, the line i dead, but it keep ringing on the iPad for 5-10 sec. more.
2. Videocall. I never get video of the other person.
3. Contacts. I cant get Exchange distribution group in Xync.
But the good part is thay I wrote Damaka, and they just wrote back, that would very much like to have a Lync Videocall with me, to tell about Xync and hear about the problems I have meet.
What is the difference between Xync-HD and XyncConf-HD?
I think Conf allows conferencing and HD is just P2P
thanks
I just bought the Xynx Colab client – they are having a sale on all 3 clients thru the end of the year. I am on an iPhone 4 with wifi and everything works great – no crashes. I’ve had an audio call, IM, had a contact share their desktop and a video call. Haven’t tried the file transfer yet. But so far – I’m liking it!
I have the iphone client for about 2 weeks now and I really wished I had saved my money. First of all the client drains the battery, 2nd, I have bluetooth enabled for my car phone and when the client is active it tries to call my own phone and after that freezes the iphone. Save your money! this app is definitely worth it.
Just bought this for just testing. It’s working and all, but some features seems to be missing. One of the annoying missing part was the inability to pull up a dial-pad to type in the conference ID to join a online conference… When I click on the dialpad while on call to the conference, it just says I can’t make another call while in a call… This can be one of the things that will be fixed by next update, but by then, the Microsoft Lync Client for iOS will have been approved by apple store, probably…