Chat Applications/ Instant Messengers for Nokia 5800

There are a few chat clients available for Nokia Tube that we talked about in last some posts. However, Windows Live Messenger is having login issues now on Nokia5800 and there is not much info available on other similar chat apps. [Update: Login issues are fixed now on Windows Live with the new version]

There are just too much requests from you guys for the chatting/ voice calling applications. So today we collected info on all the instant messaging applications available for 5800 with their summarized features and download links. We picked up about eight great apps that supports almost all the IMs like Yahoo, MSN, GTalk, Skype, AIM, ICQ, SIP, Jabber, etc. and even Twitter & Facebook on your 5800.

Nokia 5800 Chat Applications-

1) Fring:

OK this one is most popular and they have just updated their program for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. It supports Skype, MSN, GTalk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM.

You can listen to music with your Last.fm friends, check out what each other are up to on Facebook, receive alerts of new Google Mail and tailor make your very own fring by adding more cool experiences from fringAdd-ons.

Download Fring Here (Free)

2) Talkonaut:

Talkonaut is a free chat app that supports Jabber, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, AIM and Yahoo networks both for chatting and voice calling. Talkonaut allows to make free VoIP over GPRS/EDGE calls, as well as calls over 3G, or WIFI. Other features- Group chat, Presence and status, Chat history, Avatars, Traffic compression, File sharing and SIP support.

Download Talkonaut Here (Free)

3) IM+ :

An exceptionally well developed and popular application that even supports Myspace messenger, voice messaging, alerts, emoticons and multiple languages, along with other usual features. A must have for Nokia 5800.

Features-
* Simultaneous connection to MSN/ Windows Live, Yahoo!, AIM/ iChat, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk and MySpace Messenger.
* Message Templates. Create your own text templates and use them for fast message composing.
* Search in contact list and chat history.
* File transfer. Excellent alternative to MMS, send files and photos over GPRS.
* ICQ login with e-mail.
* Avatrs support added in ICQ,AOL,Yahoo!,Jabber,GTalk,MySpace
* Blocking authorisation requests.
* Voice messaging enabled. Send and receive voice messages with IM+
* Set up melody alert. Select the melody for messages received. Select the melody when another user gets online.
* Vibra alerts and Screen Notification for incoming messages and contacts coming online.
* Contact list management functions: add/delete/rename/group your contacts.
* Emoticons (Smileys).
* Profiles view support.
* Multiple dialog windows.
* Exchange messages in any European language.

Download IM+ Here (Free Trial)

4) Slick Messenger:

Yet another free multi-protocol instant messaging client. Slick allows you to chat with your friends connected though various online messaging applications, like ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN, Google and Jabber. It supports Nokia 5800 but currently its still in development, an alpha version is available for free for public testing. Poor user interface but works ok on Nokia 5800.

Download Slick Messenger Here (Free BETA)

5) MSN Windows Live Messenger:

A very popular messaging client with millions of users worldwide. Its available here on Tube5800 since long time but sadly, it turned out buggy for Nokia 5800 sometime back and Microsoft is too slow for fixing/updating it (as usual) for Symbian S60 V5 platform.

We are keeping an eye on it and will update you as soon as it gets fixed and works well on 5800. Still if you want to download it, here it is-

Update: Issues are fixed now and an official release has been made for windows live client. Download Windows Live Msgr Here (Free)

6) AVACS Live Chat:

Free dating chat application for mobile phones and PC computers with photos, animated smiles, avatars, own rooms, personal messages, contact list, exchange of photos, music and files, with colourful messages and more..

More details on AVACS and download link (Free Trial)

7) Palringo:

Palringo is the ultimate Instant Messaging client for mobile phones and computers that enables the user to communicate over various services such as AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, Jabber or Windows Live. Not only free to use, Palringo also offers you another nice features like Express Yourself and create and join groups.

They just released the new version for Nokia 5800 with added support for Facebook chat. In addition its also easy now to update your status across a number of services in one go and allowed insertion of location into your status so all of your friends can see when your location changes.

Download Palringo Here (Free)

8 ) Yahoo Messenger

Guys at Dailymobile sent us a trick to use the built-in Instant Messenger on your Nokia 5800 to chat with yahoo users.

Just fill in your yahoo account (user, pass etc) the put in: imps.msg.yahoo.com as server/web address. Now, you can chat to Yahoo Messenger users : )

9) Nimbuzz

Nimbuzz messenger application is a popular chat client and social messenger for mobile phones.  It recently got updated for Nokia 5800. Like Fring, it supports Yahoo, Gtalk, MSN, Skype, ICQ, AIM, Facebook, Myspace, Jabber and many more. Check detailed review here.

Download Nimbuzz Here (Free)

10) eBuddy

eBuddy is a very popular web and mobile messaging application that now supports Nokia 5800 with the latest version 1.2.3610. eBuddy fully supports all popular messengers like Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Facebook and MySpace- all in one single buddy list. It comes with 37 languages and even supports offline messaging.

Download eBuddy for Nokia 5800 here (Free)