Beejive IM Released

[Rayfire]

BeeJive's push notification currently consists of sending an email to the address of your choice. If you don't have push email, the notification will not be immediate. Separate from this, yes, you will be connected 24/7 (configurable) no matter what IM account you use.

Thanks for the update! So it emails you a notification, then my Y!mail (since it's push enabled) will notify me. Got it! Appreciate your quick responses guys.

(If only iPhone will let you open App links on Safari, but they disabled it sigh where is it)
EDIT: found

 

[notredewey]

macbookairman, thanks!!! awesome.........though how did you find it without the newly released apps option anymore? you must have been searching for it over, and over, and over again

BOUGHT.........

Yea I noticed the lack of the "All iPhone Apps" link all of a sudden today. I used to click on that everyday and sort by newly released to see whats new. Any word on what happened here? It's like I'm lost in the appstore now.

 

[blumpy]

Problem with that is, most people wont message me if im listed as on mobile... not sure why, they just dont. This way I appear online and ready to reply.

The only problem is "push" email taking 45 minutes to drag an email from the server. Hopefully the next iphone update will have "shove" email instead of "gently nudge" email.

 

[diesel]

For $16 they should have an option to text you im alerts when your out of the app like mobilechat does (or at least did)

I don't think MC did anything special in this area. As you recall, MC only allowed the txt message alerts for AIM accounts and i think .mac accounts. AIM has native architecture that allows you to configure a phone number to send text messages to when you're set to away. I'm sure all MC did was enable this when they kept you connected. So to imply that they "built" this is simply not true.

You could go into your desktop aim app, configure the appropriat settings so that you receive a text message when set to away, and when you log into aim via some other app, and set yourself to away and receive a message, you will receive a text message.

This won't work for the other IM services on MC because as mentioned, MC did not build anything special to handle this type of functionality. They just put up "smoke and mirrors" to give the illusion that this was something special that they built.

 

[Amt]

I love this app so much. <3

 

[diesel]

The only problem is "push" email taking 45 minutes to drag an email from the server. Hopefully the next iphone update will have "shove" email instead of "gently nudge" email.

I created a brand new yahoo (push) mail account and configured beejive to push emails to this address. and it works. yahoo is push so notifications are relatively instataneous.

 

[kevin512]

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I love this app so much. <3

+1

Totally worth 16 bucks and it's only the first version for the iPhone. These guys know what they are doing and are proven.

 

[spyker3292]

It looks great, but I'm not paying $16. If apple didn't fix the review process this app would have a pretty bad rating already (not because of me though ).

 

[diesel]

for those who say $16 is to expensive, there will probably be no reason to convince them that beejive is worth it.

with that said, i REALLY REALLY hope that the beejive dev DOES NOT lower the price and have their servers flooded by the masses. i like it just the way it is

 

[kevin512]

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for those who say $16 is to expensive, there will probably be no reason to convince them that beejive is worth it.

with that said, i REALLY REALLY hope that the beejive dev DOES NOT lower the price and have their servers flooded by the masses. i like it just the way it is

I agree. If you want cheap, then buy MC and see what you get.

 

[ntrigue]

When does it drop to $5.99?

I've seen the progression of Apps. When do we see a 24 hour sale on this App?

What am I paying for today that justifies $15.99?

 

[Telp]

Looks and sounds very nice, but there is no way im spending 15.99 on this. I will just continue to suffer with AIM...

 

[xavierserranoa]

the app looksgreat it has some features i wish my current IM app for iphone would have but something stopped me and it was the priced i think is way too much for an IM application i prefer to wait for push notifications to come out and the UI doesnt look that cool i use palringo and i like it i like how it looks thats why i prefer it over IM+ there is also mobilechat another IM app out there and it was from what i have read the same features as these one and cost less but still i think im waiting for Palringo to release updates that would incorporote the features i want and it'll still be free

 

[Nikhil72]

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Haven't tried this out yet but in theory you could also set your text address as your notification email. That can notify you via text of a new IM and it should happen as fast as push email.

 

[MGLXP]

Does anyone know if Beejive IM supports Buddy icons for Windows Live? I'm really tempted to buy this after my experience with MobileChat.

 

[Mr. Zorg]

For $16 they should have an option to text you im alerts when your out of the app like mobilechat does (or at least did)

They probably will in an upcoming version. They are probably testing to see what their servers can handle first.

That would be sick too!

Since previous messages indicate you can use any email address you want (but they say MobleMe/Exchange will give you instant notification due to their push feature), if you want SMS notification, you should be able to use "your_10digit_phone_number@txt.att.net" and get notifications that way... I think I might just get this!

 

[Bassir]

How does the 24/7 connection and notification work?

 

[Stebus]

I don't think people understand that the cost of running servers that keeps people connected for up to 24 hours rather than servers that only keep you connected for less than an hour would be quite a lot more. I consider that a premium service and I am willing to pay a premium for that.

Also, when you actually use it you can see how much work has been put into it. To sit here saying that it should be cheaper even though it is far and above the best IM client for the iPhone is insulting to the developers. When someone else can deliver all the features this App has at $5.99, I'll believe it's overpriced. Until then this is a great app and after using it after MC or Palringo you'll believe that too.

 

[chr1s60]

I'm sure this is a great app, but $16 is too much for this type of app, IMO. I could understand $5 or even a little closer to $10, this just seems too expensive and the price will likely discourage a lot of people from buying the app.

 

[ojstagg93]

brightside

look on the bright side guys at least its 5 bucks cheaper then the blackberry version!

 

[diesel]

Since previous messages indicate you can use any email address you want (but they say MobleMe/Exchange will give you instant notification due to their push feature), if you want SMS notification, you should be able to use "your_10digit_phone_number@txt.att.net" and get notifications that way... I think I might just get this!

Great idea, i'm going to give this a try!!! however keep in mind that with txt messages i don't think the button link that you find in the email notification to take you directly to the beejive app will be in the txt message.

also........something that annoys me about txt messages is how it is "publicly" displayed for anywhere within eyeshot to see. so if you want a lot more privacy, then the yahoo push email is the way to go

 

[Rayfire]

Since previous messages indicate you can use any email address you want (but they say MobleMe/Exchange will give you instant notification due to their push feature), if you want SMS notification, you should be able to use "your_10digit_phone_number@txt.att.net" and get notifications that way... I think I might just get this!

I was just browsing the ATT website trying to look for that email stuff so we could get in SMS, and voila! here you post it! Thank you!

And by the way it is WORKING! A must if you really can't wait for that push notification supported by emails (like Yahoo!)

Edit: Again that's your <10 digit phone number>@txt.att.net
Just make sure people your SMS plan will cover this or else you might pay more
that what you expect.

 

[queshy]

Ok. I'm convinced. 24 hours is great! Let's try it out...mobile chat has sucked away all my patience and I'm tired of waiting for them to "fix it"

 

[slapppy]

I was just browsing the ATT website trying to look for that email stuff so we could get in SMS, and voila! here you post it! Thank you!

And by the way it is WORKING! A must if you really can't wait for that push notification supported by emails (like Yahoo!)

If you don't have unlimited texting, won't you get dinged by AT&T with their silly charges per message?

 

[bug67]

Expensive?

Considering I spent $50.00 for IM+ when I had my Blackberry, and it wasn't even half the app Beejive is, $15.99 is a steal! I would have gladly paid more if they would've asked for it. It simply blows everything else out of the water. All you naysayers really owe it to yourselves to suck it up and buy this app.