A lot of people ask me how to chat with their Yahoo, AIM, MSN, ICQ, and other buddies with the N800. The answer is simple: Pidgin Messenger. Pidgin used to be GAIM but now has improved, grown, and is quite functional. No webcam and voice calls yet, but I hope that's in the roadmap.
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There is also Gizmo (http:www.gizmoproject.com/). It supports VoIP calls to Yahoo/MSN etc as well as offering similar functionality to Skype, but uses open standards.
Does Yahoo support work on the 800? It doesnt on my 770, If I enable Yahoo Pidgn crashes.
gog: Seems to work alright for me.
Thanks, I'll see if the new update that came out for Pidgin fixes my issue.
i cant seem to get on yahoo and google talk on pidgen..keeps getting an error.
I didnt like Gizmo that much..and it took 15mb of space too..i just uninstalled it and im running much smoother
anybody know why pidgin worked for a day (w/jabber-gtalk & aim) then stopped? i took your advice and was happy- then had my whole system slow down. decided to uninstall to see if that helped ... it stopped the slowdown (ex. of 'slowdown', app manager took minutes to refresh each time i uninstalled a pidgn component), but reinstalling was unsuccessful (loading pidgin--even an older vs.--resulted in mesg: "internal error, etc"). my system is latest o.s.. what's up?
I'd much rather use the built-in Jabber client for IM than Pidgin. Pidgin STILL after all these years does not support showing status messages in the buddy list, whereas even the rtcomm beta supports it.
Install the rtcomm beta and use Jabber and the jabber server's gateways to AIM, MSN and whatever. No need to install anything else, no need to run any programs, more integrated into the tablet and just works better.
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There is built-in rtcom software update pack (known as rtcom beta) which allows to use SIP as well as Google Talk VoIP.Compared to Gizmo, it is lightweight, works quickly and integrated with the system.And it does not enforces me to have (useless) primary account on Gizmo's service.I'm really preferring another SIP provider which does provides FREE local calls to landlines and cellphones here and only charges small fee when you're calling distant landline\cellular phones.
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