You guys are aware that whatsapp is tool for it's company seeking for phonebooks, complete userdata, like including addresses, email and birthdays is what they want. Jabber/XMPP was behind most or even close to all new garbage msg apps... they use what is already there... we should start msg.maemo.org and jump the bandwagon.

@bandora ... "you install skype, you register for skype, you login, you add friends, you call"
"you install a jabber client, you register a jabber account, you login, you add friends, you call"
What is the difference? - One is a company reading your texts (they ping any https URL you write btw) and listening to your calls, one is an admin respecting your privacy...

you are here on a tech savvy forum... XMPP is the protocol behind jabber, facebook-chat and many others - used to be googleTalk yada yada yada (bad tongues say skype uses the code as well) don't know about whatsapp but I doubt it is not XMPP

even n900's yet old jabber client supports voip... we tried it 4-5 days after we got our devices...

Skype on a phone is nice to have but skype's netcode is so bad that it is a real battery drainer...

If you really want to talk about fancy stuff talk about stuff noone needs but everyone wants... like apple does all the time. I don't want fancy apps... I want access to all hardware so one of us can do whatever they like doing - I want simple API access to 'all' closed source parts! Looking at the android market... I want a filter for removing all apps from view where someone gave 5 stars with a <6 word comment...
Just read "everything in python" - I want sane people writing proper C,C#,C++ code and not even a single brainless python app and don't even think about that java crap.