Multiple clients on Android IM application

By on October 31, 2008 in Applications

For the last four hours I have been trying to get the G1′s IM client to add another account. I’m using my main Mobile Industry Review account on the device — but I have a load of other accounts that I’d like to use — MSN, Yahoo and so on — but I can’t for the life of me work out how to add them.

It appears to be possible judging by the screenshot of the video posted by the Google Android IM/Gtalk team.

I can’t find a How-To or a manual for this… has anyone figured it out?

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  • http://invalid.name DanLane

    Oh it must be shit. Tell you what, I'll take that nasty G1 off your hands and uhhh “dispose” of it for you so it can't bother you anymore ;)

  • http://helloN96.tumblr.com hello N96

    theres no msn/yahoo on the uk version
    the us version used sms to do those transports anyway
    so way probably dependent on a tmobile usa sms<->messenger gateway thingy

    use http://www.meebo.com – it rocks, and is optimised as a web app for iphone/android.

  • http://dabr.co.uk David Carrington

    Google Talk is Jabber, which is a pretty flexible in what it can do.

    You can find a Jabber MSN Transport, link that to your GTalk account, and enjoy MSN through GTalk under one login. The downside is that I've yet to find a good stable MSN Transport.

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan @ MIR

    Well that's a bit useless.

    I have a ton more friends on my ewanmacleod & ewansms Gtalk accounts. Highly annoying.

  • http://helloN96.tumblr.com hello N96

    ah i see what you mean now – i think its the general – multiple google accounts issue

    they need a merge tool! :)

    if you like everyone else has 27 google accounts

  • http://www.rickyc.co.uk Ricky Chotai

    No MSN as standard why do manufacturers put this in? Here in the UK surely MSN is the most used IM Client?

  • mutt

    just use the meebo app for android – plus it doesn't cost for sms!

  • http://tomcaswell.com tom4cam

    Maverick is an IM Android client that allows you to connect to more Google Talk accounts than the one tied to the phone account.

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan @ MIR

    Is it any good, Tom?

    2008/12/14 Disqus <>

  • http://tomcaswell.com tom4cam

    I prefer Maverick over Meebo because Meebo seems to require that I login all the time. I'm surprised that it doesn't have a “remember password” option. Maverick stays logged in, or at least will remember my password so I don't have to type it in every time. It also has Gmail notification functionality, but I keep that turned off because I prefer the built-in notification. The only downside is that Maverick only supports GTalk.

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan @ MIR

    I will check it out!

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan @ MIR

    I will check it out!

  • Pavel

    He … it's easy why. Because it's closed protocol, closed source, so Nobody can “legally” use it wothout MS client and Nobody can guarantee what is happening with your data!. MSN also does not exists for a lot of platforms … dont forget. windows are NOT alone here…

  • http://www.ebuddy.com/ Rodrigo

    Try the eBuddy app for Android:
    http://www.ebuddy.com/android/

  • http://www.ebuddy.com/ Rodrigo

    Try the eBuddy app for Android:
    http://www.ebuddy.com/android/

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