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Beejive IM Released
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I just edited my post to cover that section, yeah just make sure your
text plan will cover this if you opt to use that 10digitcelnumber@txt.att.net option
(As of now, I only have $5 worth of SMS - 200 messages, now down to 84 left lol)
I used yahoo's push notification too. It's no better then mobileme's push email service. It works 60-70% of the time as you would hope.
It's a great app but it's definitely not worth the 16 bucks. If they priced it at 10 or less, though...it's an entirely different game.
Nevermind, all of the texts just game. About 5 minutes late, so this "push" solution's not going to work.
the best IM program for the iPhone. it's expensive but it works . the animations are smooth and the landscape keyboard is great. bejive's servers save your IM while the program isnt running and if you have mobileme you can get a push notification through your email so essentially you can always stay signed on.
So what happens to your "saved" messages when you log on with your computer before logging on with the phone?
Hmm what I see right now is YIM offers to send SMS message from your messenger, you just need to provide the right mobile number of your contact and he/she just needs to reply to it, so pretty much it's free on your side.
Other than that, I'm not aware of any methods.
Well I'm going to go ahead and drop my 15 bucks of extra text messages, so it's already worth it to me. Landscape mode? Hell yes!
No IM app yet that I have tried has let you use the address book names for nicknames yet. I really don't feel like typing in all the nicknames again... Is there a way to import that into Beejive that I'm not seeing?
15 bucks is too expensive? Do you people never eat?
No IM app yet that I have tried has let you use the address book names for nicknames yet. I really don't feel like typing in all the nicknames again... Is there a way to import that into Beejive that I'm not seeing?
15 bucks is too expensive? Do you people never eat?
Absolutely right. Never paid for IMing before, I certainly am not going to start now. If I read this app right, it's essentially Adium for the iPhone?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
To me, this is a rip off. $16 bucks for a im app? Doesn't matter that it is THE im app of the day, but I could buy like 2-3 games for that. Heck, $20 a month pays for unlimited texting... rip off.
$15.99 no way!
I was ready to test this app and the $15.99 tag stopped me
If $4.99 to $9.99 I will buy it.
I was ready to test this app and the $15.99 tag stopped me
If $4.99 to $9.99 I will buy it.
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Hardly a rip off! Any quality IM app that leaves you logged in 24/7 is going to cost some money. No app does this but Beejive. MC costs 3 bucks and they are no where close to providing this type of service. Palringo is a decent app keeping you logged on for 15 mins, but if they are going to keep you logged in 24/7, they will eventually have to charge or add advertisements to support the server infrastructure that would be needed.
Hardly a rip off! Any quality IM app that leaves you logged in 24/7 is going to cost some money. No app does this but Beejive. MC costs 3 bucks and they are no where close to providing this type of service. Palringo is a decent app keeping you logged on for 15 mins, but if they are going to keep you logged in 24/7, they will eventually have to charge or add advertisements to support the server infrastructure that would be needed.
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you point out that $20/month pays for unlimited texting.........and you seem to imply because of that, a one time fee of $16 for unlimited IM access via this app is a rip off?
hmmm let's work out the math here, after a year of $20/month, that comes out to $240 for the year for unlimited text messagig, compare that to a single payment of $16 for beejive................
hence, i fail to see what point if any you were trying to make.
as for 2-3 games. yes you could buy the games, but i highly doubt you'll still be playing the majority of any games you purchase 6 months out or even a few months out. i'm sure you'll still be IM-ing 6 months out, a year out, and more than a year out
***For people with jailbroken phones***
If you're like me, and you like to have sent/received tones with your IM's, but absolutely DESPISE Beejive's default send/receive tones, i went ahead and copied AIM's send/receive tones and replaced Beejive's with them. Now when i chat, i have the AIM sounds instead, which is much better sounding than Beejive's.
You'll need to SSH into your private/var/mobile/Applications/[bunch of numbers where your app is, you'll have to open all until you find it]/Beejive.app
Drop these two files in there, and replace the originals (which you should backup just in case).
If you're like me, and you like to have sent/received tones with your IM's, but absolutely DESPISE Beejive's default send/receive tones, i went ahead and copied AIM's send/receive tones and replaced Beejive's with them. Now when i chat, i have the AIM sounds instead, which is much better sounding than Beejive's.
You'll need to SSH into your private/var/mobile/Applications/[bunch of numbers where your app is, you'll have to open all until you find it]/Beejive.app
Drop these two files in there, and replace the originals (which you should backup just in case).
