Remember how IRC was used before the all these Instant Messaging (ICQ, AOL, MSN, YM GTalk) clients? There was software for earlier S60 called Wireless IRC but it seems to be dead now. S60 3rd Edition users can now use mIRGGI, the first native IRC client. It's still in early beta but it does the job pretty well.

The current version is 0.02 beta. It contains the following functionality:

• connecting to one server
• joining channels
• query windows for private chatting
• 10k per channel/query backlog
• jumping to desired window with numpad
• ident daemon
• UTF-8 decoding
• T9 can be used
• usually needed commands implemented
• the font is small and nice (at least on tested devices)
• the memory requirements should be very small
• settings for autojoin and autoquery on connection
• will not be bloated with unneeded themes, skins, scripts, now playing -crap etc