Agile Messenger (Freeware)

[Zire]

There is a new instant messenger for your handheld that supports multiple chat services and yes I'm jealous that I haven't moved to wireless yet. So enjoy everyone who is wireless.

More info can be found here.

From the site
Agile Messenger is the most feature rich and versatile Instant Messenger for mobile phones on the market today. Agile Messenger is used daily by over 400,000 users and has been perfected based on feature requests and feedback from tens of thousands of users. No other mobile Instant Messenger is as mature and reliable as Agile Messenger.

Agile Messenger is available for every networked hand held device that allows 3rd party software to be installed.

Supported platforms include:

* Symbian Series 60
* Symbian UIQ
* Microsoft Smartphone
* Microsoft Pocket PC
* Palm OS 3.5+
* J2ME
* Brew
* WAP

Agile Messenger Features:

* sending and receiving instant messages
* Push to Talk
* Unicode and BIG5 support for international characters
* split screen messaging interface
* separate tabs for each conversation
* conversation history
* smiley support
* automatic download and updating of the contact list
* contact status information and presence management
* adding, removing, renaming contacts
* data usage counter
* auto update downloader and installer
* picture messaging with camera support
* "Today" plug-in (PocketPC)

Instant Messaging services supported:

* MSN®
* AOL®
* Yahoo!®
* ICQ®
* QQ®
* Wireless Village™



Download the palm version here. Other versions can be found here.

[hacker]

I tried this, and it seems to work "mostly" as advertised (under Linux with Bluetooth through my laptop [heh, I did write the HOWTO on it])... except:

1. No hires support (hires fonts and icons)
2. No DIA support
3. Closing the app dumps your network connection.. which isn't really a good thing to do, especially when you want to keep the connection alive, switch to another app, and then go back to IM to continue chatting.
4. No Jabber support

It also has a few small bugs (tries to autoconnect at startup, even when told not to, and you can't change that, because the pref to change it is only available in a menu accessible after successfully connecting), but it looks like a great start for them. Hopefully their future versions will be more production-quality.