Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26
by grishka on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:39PM
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The "proper" way of using ICQ from your phone was Jimm, an unofficial Java client. I was the cool kid with a patched Siemens phone, which could run native apps, so I used NatICQ.elf instead.
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Haha, what Siemens phone could you patch to run native apps on? I must have switched to Nokia/Symbian before that became a thing. (That could run both native S60 and J2ME apps – basically infinite apps and games!)
The x65-x75 series ones, aka the "SGold" platform. I still have my CX75. That ELF loader patch was, without doubt, a pinnacle of patch engineering.
My next phone was a Nokia 5800, one of the last Symbian ones.