Looking for a good iphone instant messaging client

[markw10]

With my new job I have to instant message clients on a variety of platforms, aim, google, msn, yahoo, ichat (mobileme), icq, and myspace.
What are some good iphone apps to look at for this? If necessary I will pay for one but if there are free options available that are good I'd like to look at that.
Thank you for your help.

 

[jackiecanev2]

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At $10, beejive is by far the best. You can try using multiple free apps for individual service access if you really don't want to pay.
IM+ is decent as well, but having used both I still recommend beejive.

 

[stridemat]

+1 for IM+ with its push notifications seem to work really well. I only have two grips with it:-

1. You cannot change the message tone

2. It seems to spend alot of time connecting everytime the app is started

Apart from that its great!

 

[domness]

+1 for IM+ with its push notifications seem to work really well. I only have two grips with it:-

1. You cannot change the message tone

2. It seems to spend alot of time connecting everytime the app is started

Apart from that its great!

Then BeeJive is the best out there.

Amazing PUSH features as well as a LOT of messaging protocols and also a choice of themes and sounds.

 

[Dan73]

+1 for IM+ with its push notifications seem to work really well. I only have two grips with it:-

1. You cannot change the message tone

2. It seems to spend alot of time connecting everytime the app is started

Apart from that its great!

We'll with BeeJive you can change the IM sounds and push notification sounds

Also BeeJive launches in about 1.5 seconds when I'm connected to MSN and AIM with over 100 people online and many more offline.

 

[kate-willbury]

i vote IM+

beejive used to be the defacto choice because it was the only one truly available as a multi-IM client but IM+ has also grown immensely in features/reliability.

 

[Fireproof!]

Beejive.