Most of your comments are highly subjective, but it takes a certain amount of rank chutzpah to slam "hand made" Linux apps for the burgeoning open source mobile landscape. Personally I have the utmost respect for those who have freely ported and coded apps for the N800 or any other environ or device for that matter. As zerojay said, as long as it works, I'm happy. No-cost, ad-free Pidgin certainly does exactly what I need.