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Mabber is Instant Messaging based on the Jabber/XMPP standard, either web-based and as a mobile application. It can be accessed from any browser, and there’s Safari support coming up too for the Mac lovers. You’ll need a recent mobile phone equipped with Java and some sort of data-plan to run the app on your mobile. An estimated 1 kb of data allows for about 7 messages. That makes it less expensive than SMS.

Mix open instant messaging protocol Jabber with mobile phones and you get Mabber, a new product from a team based in Cologne, Germany. The team at Mabber were early adopters of the Jabber protocol and with the lower mobile data charges in their home country decided to develop an application that would allow mobile users to communicate with each other using the protocol, thus save on SMS costs.

Mabber integrates ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo and Jabber in one web browser-based instant messager. After logging in you can transfer the existing contacts from other instant messaging networks (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!) to your account.

There’s a chat history (which can be fully searched later), a grouping function and group chat and context menu’s to bring up the numerous options.

To install the mobile application you go to the site and enter your mobile number, you in return receive an sms with a download link, you follow that, it installs, executes, you enter your username and password and you are online. From that point you are able to access all your IM contacts and communicate with them using a standard mobile keypad.

Take the QuickTour if you need more info.
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(They’ve got 50 invites if you send an email with the subject line mentioned at the bottom of the review post of this service)
Check out Mabber – via [TechCrunch]