JiveTalk offers nice IM for iPhone

The race to see who will rule IM on the iPhone has begun. Last week, Dave wrote about Meebo. It works, but has flaws (the buddy list is very far from the chat window for some reason, and the chat window can't be resized).

Today, I came across JiveTalk, which offers simultaneous login to AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, ICQ, and Jabber. The alpha release for iPhone worked pretty well during my brief testing.

The UI resembles iChat. I had multiple AIM conversations open, and a small notification window told me when the inactive conversation had received an update. Also, two "chat bubbles" at the top of the screen let me toggle between conversations.

It's alpha, as I said, but looks good so far. Check it out.

[Via Gizmodo]

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Kevin

I tested iphone.beejive.com and it worked pretty well. It could be a little faster and I'd like the ability to scroll up and down within the chat but for Alpha it's pretty good.

July 11 2007 at 11:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rjlawrencejr

I love it thus far. For you gchatters, make sure you use your username@gmail.com and I think you will have no problems.

July 10 2007 at 12:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nilesh Patel

So I tried it. And hats off, its a great alpha release. The problem I have with using it is a problem with Safari on the iPhone itself. If I leave Safari (and and active chat on JiveTalk) to access my calendar, switch music around, etc... Safari dumps the open page. I get logged off and and have to relogin.

This happens not only with JiveTalk but all webpages. Safari doesn't keep a cache of the open web pages. It's super annoying. Because of this, it's hard to keep an open chat going all day, because inevitably you'd have to leave Safari to place a call or whatever.

I love the iPhone. It does have a couple of frustrating quarks.

July 10 2007 at 11:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

andres

wow. do check www.tybyim.com i just tried it and i like this one way better.

July 10 2007 at 10:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

synack

Check out tybyim.com

It was written by a friend of mine. It's really nice.

July 10 2007 at 9:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aaron

GChat gives me a javascript -1 error when trying to sign in. Hopefully this Alpha will be updated to a Beta soon.

July 10 2007 at 8:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Anders M

Check out Heysan!, IM for iPhone and other mobile devices.

http://m.heysan.com/ipchat/login.do

http://heysan.com/

All networks will be live shortly.

July 10 2007 at 4:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joseph

finally worked on the iPhone!

Just curious how safe is it using using 3rd party services like these? They keep your password, right?

July 10 2007 at 3:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Slartibartfast

I have the same concern as Nimrod there. It needs to be secure. I'm getting kinda ticked off at iPhone's security, or lack thereof. I need secure email and IM clients.

July 10 2007 at 2:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joseph

didn't work for me a all. Keep getting JavaScript error on my iPhone :(

July 10 2007 at 2:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply