Yes, exactly, what the title says and all that without a hack. All you need for this is the Nintendo DS Browser I mentoined in my previous post. The people over at ebuddy understood that there was a need for a web based messenger solution for some of the most popular instant messengers that would work on handheld devices like cell phones, PDAs, Blackberry devices and ofcourse the NDS.

When you enter the url http://www.ebuddy.com on your NDS it will automatically bring you to the mobile page where you can choose from the 3 before mentioned IM systems. When you have picked one it’ll bring you to a login page where you enter your user name and password and off you go.
I only tried the MSN one, because I’m not on the others, but I expect them to work pretty much the same way.
The mobile messenger doesn’t work as convenient as it’s desktop counterpart, but it works quite nicely, here’s a list of the major differences it has for MSN and this probably also goes for Yahoo! and AIM;

• only one ‘window’: you must do everything within one ‘window’ so switching from one conversation to another isn’t as quick as on the big version.
• No custom smileys
• No buzzers, winks, soundclips and all that jazz
• No voice/video chat
• Even the contact list and configuration options are in the same ONE ‘window’
• No contact groups, only online and offline are seperated
• Typing isn’t as convenient as on the big version

That’s about it, well, there are a lot more differences ofcourse, but these are the most noticable ones and probably the most important.

The best thing is that it works great on SSR mode, so you only have vertical scrolling instead of both horizontal and vertical.

Sometime soon I’ll post a couple of pics of this web based messenger, but I’ll need my camera for that and I can’t post those from my NDS from which I’m posting this.

I’m pretty sure that this ebuddy stuff works on other handheld devices, like a PDA or a Blackberry, as well.

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