I think an important feature of an IM client is the ability to take it with you. An all-bells-and-whistles version chained to a PC is pretty useless if you are in the middle of a conversation and need to move..cos really, the important feature of an IM client is the ability to have A CONVERSATION. Are they on AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo??? Who gives a rats-ass...you have the conversation thru the medium that is convenient.Even though i work on a laptop, i am not about to carry that with me on the train or to a game. Even a PDA is more than i want to carry most of the time....actually...all of the time! My zaurus has been laying dormant in a draw for months. Anyway...needs to be mobile....and i have only seen 2 applications that run across a variety of phones that support multiple protocols...
Oz Mobile IM http://www.oz.com/ & mobichat http://www.mobichat.com/. At $1 per day per protocol, Oz mobile IM is going to sting the wallet a little though.
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I think an important feature of an IM client is the ability to take it with you. An all-bells-and-whistles version chained to a PC is pretty useless if you are in the middle of a conversation and need to move..cos really, the important feature of an IM client is the ability to have A CONVERSATION. Are they on AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo??? Who gives a rats-ass...you have the conversation thru the medium that is convenient.Even though i work on a laptop, i am not about to carry that with me on the train or to a game. Even a PDA is more than i want to carry most of the time....actually...all of the time! My zaurus has been laying dormant in a draw for months. Anyway...needs to be mobile....and i have only seen 2 applications that run across a variety of phones that support multiple protocols... Oz Mobile IM http://www.oz.com/ & mobichat http://www.mobichat.com/. At $1 per day per protocol, Oz mobile IM is going to sting the wallet a little though.