We need good AIM app!

[Royal2000H]

Oh and I noticed meebo killed my battery even though battery use claimed it was display. My battery went from above 80% to dangerously low (blinking red led) in 2 hours. That doesn't happen just from the display being on (at 0% brightness)...

So what makes ebuddy so much better than meebo rintintigger?

 

[MAzing87]

I use Meebo. Works great. Haven't had anything with importing contacts. I simply login with my AIM details and it works. Maybe that happens if you use a meebo account or something?

I haven't gotten any disconnects but I read that an update fixed it (I've only had meebo since the fix).
After talking back and forth (a lot) for a while, the shear amount of messages slows down meebo. So I just click close conversation and then I open again. Did that 2-3 times during a 5 hour convo with hundredssss of messages.

Far too much to deal with. I'll stick with EBuddy then.

 

[DRILLINDK]

Downloaded eBuddy and successfully setup all my IM accounts except with AIM. I know my username and password, but it won't let me establish an account. It keeps saying invalid username. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[JFDroid]

Do you guys know that AOL published an official AIM client for Android? It's actually really good.

The downside is that, naturally, it's an AIM-only client, but it works pretty good and I like that it doesn't seem to suck resources at all. They did a good job with it. I run it in the background all the time, and have for the past 3-4 days since I downloaded it.

I'd give it an A- overall.

 

[Reks]

Do you guys know that AOL published an official AIM client for Android? It's actually really good.

The downside is that, naturally, it's an AIM-only client, but it works pretty good and I like that it doesn't seem to suck resources at all. They did a good job with it. I run it in the background all the time, and have for the past 3-4 days since I downloaded it.

I'd give it an A- overall.

It's a good app but the notification options are severely lacking.

 

[pyro6128]

ebuddy kicks ass, don't waste your time with other im apps (unless ebuddy doesn't support your service haha)

 

[mrredskin]

a very simple solution would be to sync your AIM list with gmail, then you could use the preinstalled "talk" app. i rarely use aim anymore, so just a suggestion if you didn't want to have to actually install another app

or, for that matter, just go mobile on your aim account??

 

[MillionsKnives]

a very simple solution would be to sync your AIM list with gmail, then you could use the preinstalled "talk" app.

Any suggestions on how to do this? I logged into my AIM account in Gmail and selected some AIM contacts to "show in chat list". When i go to the Talk app on my Droid, only my Google Talk buddies show up.

 

[fantom557]

a very simple solution would be to sync your AIM list with gmail, then you could use the preinstalled "talk" app.

Any suggestions on how to do this? I logged into my AIM account in Gmail and selected some AIM contacts to "show in chat list". When i go to the Talk app on my Droid, only my Google Talk buddies show up.

i would love to know how also to do this. i came from a BB using beejive and i would love to have something like beejive.

 

[captaincanada84]

I've found that Meebo IM is the best AIM client out there.

 

[deathtoll2001]

Since this is a larger thread, have any of you noticed the chat client disconnecting you after a short period of non-use? eBuddy did it constantly and Meebo seems to be doing the same. I'm starting to wonder if it's the client or the phone that's cutting it off...

 

[joshwithachance]

I must be the only person that DOESN'T like ebuddy. I think it's awful lol. how do we sync our AIM account with gtalk ?

 

[LordKastle]

sync aim with gtalk? do you really like handing everything to google?

use the official aim.