Beejive IM 3.0 and AOL get updated, now offering support for Push Notifications
June 23, 2009 | Robert Nelson
It looks like we are finally going to begin receiving those long awaited Push Notifications. Just recently an updated version of BeejiveIM as well as AOL have been added to the App Store.
BeejiveIM can be purchased for $9.99 (App Store link) and has support for Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace, ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo!, MSN/Windows Live as well as AIM.
AIM on the other hand has support for AIM, MobileMe and ICQ, however this one is available in either a low priced $2.99 (App Store link) or free version (App Store link).
Either way, despite not being much on an IM user, I have read that Push Notifications are working very nicely with these apps. Of course, there is one drawback with these alerts.
They are nice in that you can be alerted that you have received a new IM, however in order to reply you are going to have to close out whatever you are currently in. In other words, you can get a message without being interrupted, but you will have to be interrupted in order to reply.
Overall, it seems to me that while Push Notifications are nice, they are far from perfect. Anyway, hit up the App Store to either download the apps or just get the updated versions.
[via Gizmodo]
I’ve tested out Beejive out between the 2 AIM accounts I have, and it seems to work well. I like that Beejive keeps you logged into their servers in the background. But once you are really logged out, you will not get push notifications, but you can have Beejive keep you logged in (to their servers) as long as 24 hours. That is pretty good I think. My test was done over EDGE, the notification came to the iPhone right after I sent the IM
Did one more test on Beejive, on EDGE. If you are on the phone and on EDGE, you will not get Notification until you are off the phone. In my case I sent 3 test IMs to the phone while I was on it. Once I hung up, I got 1 alert. If I had waited longer I may have gotten 2 more. This makes since since you cannot have a data and voice at the same time while on EDGE
On my iPhone beejive the myspace im doesn’t load my contacts . It says I’m logged in but I don’t see people there but when I look on my computer logged in it has people on. Does anyone know how to fix this problem!! Other than that it works really good!