Seems to work for me but contact import/status is very slow to update.

Shouldn't Nokia be running a jabber server? Seems a bit stupid that they're tying up all these deals with 3rd parties to get IM/Video support. Its mesing up the whole experience. I really don't understand why they have gizmo client. Just a marketing deal that messes up the whole IM/Video integration on the N810. What does Gizmo give that a sip/im client doesnt?

Pidgin isn't the answer either. When mobile and connected over 3G/BT you can guarantee that your provider will have blocked one or more of the ports! Jabber is probably the way to go.

I'd love to be able to use meebo or jabber to meebo servers but that's not possible. Grrr. An internet tablet that doesnt run internet websites properly ;-)

Steve

[QI do not have SIP as an option. RTCOMM has to be installed to get it, right? Due to some strange dependency error RTCOMM was never installable on my n800/OS2007.

Run your own Jabber server (it's really not that hard) and find a port that isn't blocked.

You were basically suckered into buying a Nokia video walkie talkie. Promise, promise, promise, but no delivery yet. Gizmo "does video" to a PC video client only if you are willing to accept the vague borg-like image coming to the PC as "video". Nokia overstated the video aspect of the N800 and they ought to fix it. Leaving it to third parties is a cop out. The only reason I bought the N800 was for video chat and so far I've been ripped off.

If that's the ONLY reason you bought one, then you really should have done some more focused reasearch before the purchase. Its not like this hasn't been discussed endlessly.

OS2008 can also do video over SIP (h.263,h.263+) which looks much better IMO. It also supports jingle-video over Jabber/XMPP which will be another option once PC clients show up.

BTW, what exactly has Nokia "promised" regarding video support?

I use Zerojay's Jabber server (jablet, I think it is called) and it works perfectly, enabling the built-in contacts app to work seamlessly with all my friend's and family's various im services. It's one of those great things that I simply set and forget. It works.

Gizmo, imo, is a dud. Basically it is just another service that requires it's own client (so unless I convince everyone to download and use it, right it is a 'walkie-talkie'). Gizmo is also pretty 'fussy' about even simple voice connections (at least for me, on my simple, unsecured home wireless) and if you can get the video to work, which I did not, consistently, at least, as another poster mentioned, it is a worthless borg-like image that makes me realize I never really wanted video calling in the first place.

The one thing that Gizmo might be useful for is the fact that having an account seems to 'automatically' assign a SIP phone number for me to use. Of course, there certainly ways to obtain a number without subscribing to Gizmo, but that's the extent of my knowledge

Skype, well, I haven't been able to get it to work on my N810 yet, but honestly I also can't claim to have tried very hard. For me, IM is must-have, but VOIP is not (yet).

Gizmo works just fine with the built-in SIP client. It's a much better setup than using their bloaty application. (Call-In + GrandCentral = good times)

I just want them to enable the jabber option in the buy im service menu. Its still saying coming soon!
grrrr i want to use the gizmo client with jabber! The jablet server rocks for that.
CJ

The Gizmo client is garbage. Why in the world would you want to use it over the built-in SIP and Jabber clients?

Gizmo *IS* Jabber for the last time! No need to do anything!