Beejive IM is finally out of beta, and is now available on the Android Market. Beejive is a very popular, cross platform multiple service IM client that's safe (128-bit encryption on all over-the-air data), easy to use, and uses Google's new push services (see our Chrome to Phone demo about them) to stay easy on the battery. It also integrates seamlessly with all of the popular chat clients, with group chat support for AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk, and Jabber. Possibly the best feature -- file transfers between users is supported, something many of us have been waiting for.
It's good that Beejive is so feature rich, because it's going to cost you $10. That's not really surprising, as Beejive is an expensive app on other platforms as well. What I found most dissapointing, is that while Beejive offers license transfer between BlackBerry devices, I see no method to transfer my license from BlackBerry to my Android device, nor any method to transfer license between Android phones. And it appears that each installation is tied to the device it was purchased from, using a unique device identifier, so Beejive will have to facilitate the transfer. Hopefully all this is an oversight or in the works -- I've reached out to Beejive for some more clarification.
But if you've been longing for Beejive, or just need a good (and it's very good, I've been participating in the beta as well) cross platform, multi-client chat application go for it -- you won't be disappointed in anything other than the price and/or licensing scheme. Download link and some more screen shots are after the break.
Posted originally at Android Central
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