07.09.07

iPhone IM - Instant Messaging is Here

Posted in iPhone Software at 3:12 pm by mc

Lots of people have been trying to tackle the lack of an instant messaging application since even before the iPhone launched.  Since I am not a big texter, but I do like to use IM, this was a big deal to me.  Unfortunately, I am old school so almost all of my IM is done via ICQ.  Some of the pre-iPhone sites that were doing this, only offered AIM.  Other web-based IM applications like Meebo, were simply still too cumbersome to use on the iPhone.  Now everything is right with the world. Beejive has introduced their ALPHA Instant Messanging Client.  It supports Gtalk, AIM, ICQ, MSN and the rest.  The display for chat mimics the text bubbles used in SMS on the iPhone.  I got a chance to thoroughly test it for several hours today while in a car, and on Edge it was working wonderfully.  It uses cookies to remember your settings, and you can login to all of your accounts at once if you like.  It may not be a perfect integrated application, but for an application still in alpha testing, I am impressed.  It has made it possible for me to legitimately use IM on the iPhone for the first time without any hassles.

Checkout BeeJive’s IM Client for the iPhone 

2 Comments »

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    July 10, 2007 at 7:01 pm

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  2. Peter said,

    March 8, 2008 at 11:23 am

    what is wrong?

    run the application on the iphone.
    fill in with my settings.
    save the settings

    when I launched again have to fill in again teh settings every time.

    who knows the answerd?

    The applications works fine for the rest.

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