Well, not quite yet, but soon anyway.

Through a chat with Ralph Meijer, and an email to Joe Hildebrand, I got in touch with Shawn Carrigan from Jabber Inc. who sent me a pre-release version of their Symbian Jabber client. and very good it is too. Fast, intuitive and usable.

Check out the photos in my (small) Flickr photoset.

Orange France rolled a version of this out late last year, and I’m
led to believe that they will be rolling this client out across the UK
and the Netherlands in Spring sometime, although their PR department
didn’t return my emails.

It has all the features that you would expect including chat, status
messages, sorting users into groups, user blocking, emoticons, message
templates, playing a sound on new message receipt, profile editing and
so on.

The best thing is that it’s not locked to a particular server, so
you can connect to your favourite XMPP server, including Google Talk.

Jabber Inc. are clearly committed to supporting the XMPP standards as a version which will be released soon will support JEP-65 (SOCKS5 Bytestreams) via multimedia messaging and JEP-45 (Multi-user Chat) via simple MUC.

I know that Jim Hughes has also got a copy, so he may also write something interesting about it. Keep your eyes peeled 🙂