Need a reliable IM client! Suggestions, PLEASE!

[radsaq]

Any idea what the effect on battery life is?

 

[640k]

Any idea what the effect on battery life is?

there's a thread about linux services running in the background. you should go check it out.

 

[radsaq]

It not a question about services--it's a question about potentially chatty network connections. IM connections aren't high bandwidth, but they do frequently send keep-alives back and forth. (I'm assuming that the built-in GTalk client is built specifically with this in mind and operates on a push system like the GMail client, and so it has minimal impact on battery life.)

 

[repomanNWP]

Do any of the IM clients for the droid allow you to specify a custom IM server? my company runs it's own jabber/xmpp chat server that I'd like to connect to.

 

[Dan at Marquette]

I wish Beejive would make an Android app.

I love their app for the iTouch.

The only feature I really want is to be able to "name" my contacts within the buddy list. That is, if an entry in my contact list on the Droid has an AIM username attached to it and that username appears in the AIM client I'm using, it displays their real name so I'm not forced to remember 50+ AIM screen names.