Beejive’s JiveTalk for iPhone has been released, but it is an Alpha version. Earlier reports of iPhone instant message software by Trillian Astra will not be available for several more weeks. Since the introduction of the iPhone Developer Site a few days ago, iPhone programmers are now able to build applications according to Apple guidelines.
Beejive is the first IM client for the iPhone available for download. The alpha version includes most IM services such as AIM AOL instant messenger, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk and Jabber. It remains to be seen if all of the listed services will be available in iChat once it is released. Users may actually want to use both programs, depending on what messaging services they use most.
The service is free for now, as all of the data goes over EDGE or WiFi. To use the service go to Safari for iPhone and type in the address of iphone.beejive.com to start chatting. Many more programs are going to be released in the coming months as the developer site is now live. Via Engadget.