The popular instant messaging client for iPhone, iPad and Blackberry has just extended its support to the Android platform too. The beejive app has been widely used due to its beautiful and simple UI, wide social network support etc. It works with AIM®/iChat®/MobileMe®, MSN®/Windows Live®, Yahoo!®, Facebook, MySpace, GoogleTalk®, ICQ®, & Jabber. The app is now up on the Android Market for $9.99. Yeah, ten dollars is a bit steep for an IM app, but the feature list is pretty long. You get multiple accounts per network, group chat on AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk and Jabber, file transfers, and you can send photos, videos and even voice notes right inside the chat. There is a buddy pounce option which alerts you when a particular buddy comes online. It also reconnects on its own when you lose data coverage or take a phone call.
Push notifications are there too, but it uses Google’s Cloud to Device Messaging which is still in beta, so you’ll need Android 2.2 or above for that to work. The folks at BGR are calling it “hands down the best Android IM app”, better than even the official AIM app. Kai Yu, the founder and CEO of Beejive says the Android community has been asking for BeejiveIM from day one. If you try it out, let us know how it goes in the comments!!
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