Virca.

[Communicate with the world!] Imagine you're out in the offline world and need to get a hold of someone. Imagine that all you have to work with is a cell phone. What do you do? Why, you hop on IRC of course!

The Virca IRC midlet lets you connect to IRC from a wide range of J2ME compatible phones and devices. A short list of some of the features:

Multiple windows
Profiles, for using multiple servers without having to type the host/nick each time
Scrolling
UTF-8/Cyrillic/Russian codepages supported natively
Open Source

For screenshots and a little documentation, see the Virca Manual. Problems that aren't mentioned in the manual? mail me. Virca is not under active development, so go easy on the feature requests. Besides, there's a good chance jmIrc already has it.

Download

Wap page available at http://wap.vidarholen.net/. Motorolas can also get it OTA from www.vidarholen.net. Contributed Palm PRC here (thanks to bspit). Russian version by An12345 (Pentik): jar, jad and source.

Bugs:

Quit/Nick messages printed in current window, instead of where the person was (no list of nicks to compare against held).
Ignoring your own nick will have dire consequences
C100 Russian displaying. The phone is broken; unless someone sends a patch, it will never be supported.
Help wanted (clues, patches or second opinions) for the following:
- Various

Reported to work on the following models: (*, might require Poll mode)
(If your device isn't listed here or below, I do not know whether or not it works. Try it and mail me the results.)

Blackberry 7230
Lg PM-325, CU500, LX5350, U8120, Lotus
Motorola T720, A008, C380, E398, A830, i830, A835, A920, A925, V525*, V547, C450, IC502, C550, V600, C650, i465
Mitsubishi M350, M750
NEC E616
Nokia 2610, 3220, 3230, 5140, 6021, 6170, 6220, 6230, 6600, 6610i, 6630, 6680, 6800*, 6810*, 6820, 7200*, 7250i, 7610, 7710, 9300, 9500, N-Gage, N73, N95
Orange SPV C550
Philips 9@9r
Sanyo VM4500, 4900, 7300, 8100, PM8200
Samsung C-100* (but not russian), E250, M300, S300, x450, A600, A660, A900, A920, E700, u740, VGA-1000/A620, SGH-X600 (firmware X60XEWL1), Monte
Siemens SL45, M50, MT50, M55, S55, C55, S57, MC60, C60, CF62, M65, S65, CX65, M75, S155
Sony Ericsson K300i, K500, K508i, Z520i, Z530i, M600i, T608, K700, K750i, S700i, W800i, Z1010
Toshiba VM4050 (AudioVox CDM-9950)
Treo 650

Nokia 3300, 3650

Reported not to work on these:

No socket support:
- Nokia 3100, 3200, 3510i, 5100, 6100, 6310i, 6610, 6820, 7210, 7250
- Samsung e700, e800, SGH-X600 (firmware X60XEDA1, X600XEDC2)
- Sharp GX10
- Sony Ericsson T610, T630
Not working for unknown reasons:
- Motorola A630 ("SecurityException: Access is Denied")

Try WLIrc or jmIrc if Virca's not working, or you'd like to try another client. If you have a model or comment to add to either list, I'd love to hear about it.

Latest updates:

2004-11-22: 1.1.20. UTF-8 support!
2004-08-17: 1.1.18. Previous version restored, since I broke more than I fixed.
2004-08-07: 1.1.19. Various performance improvements (hopefully)
2004-08-06: 1.1.18. C100 russian phonepage added.
2004-07-15: 1.1.17. Idle time parsing bug fixed
2004-07-09: 1.1.16. Fixed quick menu and lingering keyrelease events for shortcuts.
2004-07-01: 1.1.15. Added CTCP (/ctcp,/ping). Changed input to a textbox.
2004-06-26: 1.1.14. hit # to close the window, * to clear
2004-06-22: 1.1.13. Fixed codepage-/msg, added /cs,/ms,/ns (chan/memo/nickserv), hit 1 to open favorites
2004-06-18: 1.1.12. Fixed codepage-/me + Eumlaut
2004-06-18: 1.1.11. Added support for e with umlaut in cp1251
2004-06-15: 1.1.10. J2ME doesn't like those fancy version numbers of mine.
2004-06-14: 1.1.9_01. Tiny bugfixes (russian /whois, added /quit)
2003-11-02: 1.1.9. Now prints ERROR messages.
2003-11-02: 1.1.8. MIDP Permissions added.
2003-09-19: 1.1.7. More russian related fixes (that work this time).
2003-09-17: 1.1.6. Additional russian related fixes
2003-09-16: 1.1.5. Russian input support for 1251 should work better
2003-08-29: 1.1.4. Fixed some possible sync issues.
2003-07-29: 1.1.3. Changed version number.
2003-07-29: Fixed Unsupported Encoding messages.
2003-07-24: 1.1.2. Preliminary russian input support. I'd appreciate feedback.
2003-07-23: 1.1.1. Removed HTTP support. Added more generic channel support (#%!+ etc). Finally fixed forced-nick-bug.
2003-07-10: 1.1.0. Realname/user editable. Favorites. Should probably feature freeze.
2003-06-18: 1.0.9. Choosable color modes, priority based tab colors.
2003-06-10: 1.0.8. Russian Codepage 1251 and KOI8-R support.
2003-06-10: Changed default sync mode to None.
2003-06-09: 1.0.7. Sending join after successful connect, hopefully pleasing Quakenet.
1.0.6. Added choosable support for sync IO. Even commented a little.
1.0.5. Zero length input now ok. /msg issue fixed.
1.0.4. Added some relief for poor, synched socket implementations (Nokia 6800), Hotkey for the input dialog.
1.0.3 Released. Fixed issues where nick list would appear in different window and made nick mode changes appear in the current window.
1.0.1 Released. Fixed a screen bug (stupid threads) and hopefully Quakenet issues.
1.0 Released! Added multiple channel support, HTTP bouncing, and a bunch of other stuff.
0.7 Released. Added messages for more server response codes (including name lists), added /whois, /join, /names, /server.
0.6 Released. Fixed .jad issues and added some more multithreading for slow connections (thanks to hud).
0.0.4 Released, fixed some crash errors. GPL'd it.
0.0.3 Released.
Added Profiles
0.0.2 Released.
Doubled buffer size to accomodate smaller screens (Thanks to racc_ again).
Included .jad link and added proper MIME types. Thanks to racc_ for pointing this out!
0.0.1 Released.

Download

Wap page available at http://wap.vidarholen.net/. Motorolas can also get it OTA from www.vidarholen.net. Contributed Palm PRC here (thanks to bspit). Russian version by An12345 (Pentik): jar, jad and source.