BeeJive IM offers up sale, tells of Facebook chat feature

The beejive program is wonderful. It allows you to be signed into all of your chat programs at once without having 4-5 programs running. The price is a one-time license fee, and not monthly. As for the "push", you get instant notification when an IM comes in, and you can even program the LED to change colors for the IM application. Now that it is adding Facebook, there is no better program out there. I'll never understand those who say $10 is too much to pay for a program that is developed, supported, and constantly upgraded. The developers deserve to make some money on this!

I bought beejive at full price: I had been using the beejive web app on the iphone for ages, and had no hesitation in spending the $$... However since then, a few other contenders have emerged.. Nimbuzz (free) already does facebook chat. And voip via SIP/Skype, too. Fring (free) doesnt at the moment, but it does Twitter (chat only). I think if I had not already bought Beejive, I would probably choose Nimbuzz.

Really? In their support forums, a staffer from Beejive just /today/ posted a reply to someone who asked about Facebook compatibility with: "FacebookIM support will be coming in the next few months."

Weeks? Months? Who's got the right story here?

On a side note, Palringo, the free client i use, already does what seems to be BeeJive's biggest selling point of having a backend service to keep you logged it. I guess the only downside is the banner ads and that you have to sign up for a Palringo account (which connects to their servers and takes messages for you).

How does it compare to Palringo, a free iphone chat client i use, does anyone know?

Is all i'm gaining better UI/media features?

it works great, and it's getting FB chat at last, the feature i wanted the most :)

works great with yahoo push.. =)

How does this compare to the Meebo's mobile site, which you can access on the iPhone via Safari?

my only problem... NO SKYPE!

Had a couple of questions someone might know :

1. With the landscape thing, is it just the message chat that can go landscape or the whole app?
2. When the app is closed and a message is emailed to you, can you reply to the email to respond to the message? If so, is all the headers and stuff from the original message stripped out? For example IM+ you can reply to the email and the other person receives and SMS with the message and your signature (and thats it).
3. IM+ also keeps you online for 3 days (after you close the app), it seems Beejive is upto 24 hours, I assume this cannot be increased.
4. When you close the app and the beejive servers keep your session active, does the auto-away feature still kick in or do you appear online all the time?

Thanks!