This is a really cool device. It has pretty much everything you need. US 3G, 3.5 MM, Full physical qwerty, touchscreen, Flash, firefox!!! (I love you Firefox) and its plug-ins, cross fingers that they can port the Messengers (Live, Yahoo, AIM, etc) from Symbian into this one.
So you'll be able to use MSN, AIM, ICQ, Skype, Twitter, SMS etc in the same messaging app that comes with the phone. The you can of course also install Pidgin or any other IM client you want.
That is cool. I've always been skeptic about using other non-official applications due to a fear of "credential theft" but I may give it a try. However, I would prefer able to download each application, like you can do on symbian as of now.
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This is a really cool device. It has pretty much everything you need. US 3G, 3.5 MM, Full physical qwerty, touchscreen, Flash, firefox!!! (I love you Firefox) and its plug-ins, cross fingers that they can port the Messengers (Live, Yahoo, AIM, etc) from Symbian into this one.
Pretty sure Pidgin already handles all the messenger types listed and it's been on maemo for a long time.
Maemo 5 uses Gnome Telepathy as its IM framework, and Telepathy supports everything that Pidgin supports: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Components
So you'll be able to use MSN, AIM, ICQ, Skype, Twitter, SMS etc in the same messaging app that comes with the phone. The you can of course also install Pidgin or any other IM client you want.
That is cool. I've always been skeptic about using other non-official applications due to a fear of "credential theft" but I may give it a try. However, I would prefer able to download each application, like you can do on symbian as of now.
Well, it should be possible to download separate apps if anyone bothers writing a separate app for each protocol anymore, but for the moment every IM conversation is run through http://maemo.nokia.com/features/conversations/ and if you need support for more protocols, then just add the correct plugin from the application store like http://maemo.org/packages/view/account-plugin-butterfly/ for only MSN and http://maemo.org/packages/view/account-plugin-haze/ for "everything" else (including MSN). Pidgin should also be available soon after launch if you don't like the built in Conversations app. :)