[ScrapMaker]

OZ is not Sprint-only. Every carrier seems to have it.

You just have to have the right one, I believe.

I would use OZ more often, but it lacks in so many ways. I leave OctroTalk on most of the time, but if I know I will be away from my charger for long, I will exit, and AIM automatically goes into text-mode... Then I can open up whatever client I want.

I have Slick, AIM, OZ, JiveTalk, and OctroTalk.

OctroTalk is my favorite, because it saves your conversations to your gmail account... so I use that.

OZ uses less battery... but lacks in all other areas. Messages take FOREVER to get it sometimes. It's typical for me to get like 10 messages in 10 seconds, although they were sent over a few minutes...

Beejive is pretty, smooth, awesome. Uses up a lot of battery, and doesn't save conversations well.

Slick is pretty good, and you can backup your messages--but not as easily as OctroTalk.

I love being able to log into my Gmail account and search through whatever IMs I have.. awesome!