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kman42 · May 19, 2003, 10:21 AM

Is there an AIM client for Palm that is compatible with .mac?

I just bought my wife a Treo and thought it would be cool if she could chat while on the transit.

kman

AssassyN · May 19, 2003, 11:21 AM

I'm not sure...I d/loaded Yahoo Messenger for Palm, and it'll connect enough to retrieve my buddy list but it refuses to connect on my Tungsten|C...I'm guessing the program just won't work 100% w/ OS 5.2 on the Palm.

However, if there is an AIM client for Palm it'll be at www.aim.com or try searching for "AIM" at www.versiontracker.com in the Palm OS section.

maxintosh · May 19, 2003, 11:47 AM

There is; you can find it on handango.com. Don't have any experience with it though, sorry.

icruise · May 19, 2003, 11:55 AM

AIM for palm won't work for .mac accounts (at least as far as I've been able to tell). I don't know of any that will work. I've tried a couple of AIM compatible palm programs, but none of them worked.

kman42 · May 19, 2003, 02:03 PM

I found the official AIM client for Palm devices, but it costs $20 and there is, of course, no mention of .mac compatibility. It doesn't sound like others have had much luck with this either.

kman

icruise · May 19, 2003, 02:17 PM

That's one I tried (found a version floating on the net before I realized it was actually pay software). Doesn't work. In fact I couldn't even get iChat to send a message to my non-.Mac AIM account when I was using it with the palm version of AIM. Seems totally incompatible. I'm just glad I didn't pay for it...