I’ll be honest with you, the Pre’s IM client sucks balls. Big time, I’m like who the hell uses AIM and Google talk (other then my girlfriend and an annoying friend). Most of my contacts reside between Yahoo and more so Live Messenger. At any rate you might remember that a few weeks ago when the Pixi was officially announced we were told Yahoo Messenger would be making its way to webOS.
Well we’re also hearing from the homebrew community that getting the other major IM clients such as Live Messenger, ICQ and others won’t be that hard dew to an opensource library in the Linux code called libpurple. Its all pretty technical stuff, but one guy(Greg Roll) from down under has managed to port said IM clients to webOS, albeit with a few glitches. While its still in baby stages this is very promising because it means in a very short time, myself and countless others will have our Windows Live and ICQ contacts on the Pre. Check out the READ link below for more details.
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