Learning by Doing

It’s free and runs great on my N75, uses little data and is only 721K. It supports ICQ, Jabber, AIM, MSN, Yahoo and GTalk. I can confirm that the ICQ, Jabber, and GTalk protocols work. The ICQ protocol is difficult to test yourself, because it only lets you be logged in one place, so you can’t send a message from your desktop client to your phone, but it retrieved my contacts fine and showed who was online properly, so I assume that works too. Another nice thing about it is that it uses a small font, so the threaded message view is actually useful.

Slick is simple, fast, and functional. Eqo take note.

If you’d like VOIP functionality also, you can try Gizmo5, but I haven’t used it and the other two I tried, Eqo and Fring, were failures. Fring might be fine if all you’re doing is VOIP and using Slick for IM, but will probably run your battery down even faster.

Unfortunately, not only can I not get any of my IM accounts to work, but I can’t even log in to their support forum to tell them about it. The whole point of this post is to leave a trackback to their blog, because Chris, the “Tech Evangelist” seems pretty responsive and there’s no other way to contact them.

He also shares my frustration with embedded video/podcasts, too. We need transcripts!

Chris, if you’re reading this, contact me here because I can’t reach anyone there.

As I expected, logging a support incident(I can log in there, just not the forum) was utterly useless. The first response said, “You’re using a beta, so there will be issues.”, missing the point of the site not working entirely, and the second response requested that I change my password to all lowercase, which I had already done based on the sticky thread in the forum mentioning this requirement.

This is the same thing that turned me off of cocomment. They have these droids working the support forum, who seem unable to do anything but make pointless and redundant suggestions to do things you’ve already tried.