Instant Messaging suite IM+ for BlackBerry has been updated. The full-featured Messaging app plugs into all the popular IM clients into a single all-in-one app.
Tag: ICQ
Imo.im has launched their multi-protocol instant messaging app for BlackBerry. Also available on Android and iPhone, imo is a web-based communications service that enables users to hold text, voice and video chats across multiple instant messaging protocols.
The Beta app currently supports MSN, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Facebook, AIM/ICQ, Jabber, MySpace and Hyves with more features being added in the coming weeks. This web-based instant messanging suite supports concurrent sessions so you can be logged in on the desktop and on your phone simultaneously.
Appearing in BlackBerry App World soon, imo is currently available as an over-the-air download.
BeejiveIM has gone version 2.0, offering a ton of IM services in a single client. The supports IM services such as Facebook Chat, GoogleTalk, AIM/iChat/MobileMe, MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, MySpace, ICQ, and Jabber.
BeejiveIM also features:
- Clickable Twitter usernames: Click on a Twitter username in a chat to launch Twitter.
- Voice notes: Instantly record and send voice messages to your IM contacts.
- GPS location: Send your current GPS location with a link to Google Maps.
- More chat styles: Customize your chat styles and colors and set different backgrounds and wallpapers.
- File transfers with all IM services: Easily send, receive, and review file attachments, and see previews of images right inside your chat.
- Push notifications: Whether running in the foreground or the background, BeejiveIM will always notify you of new instant messages.
- Improved battery life.
- Group chats: Chat with groups of contacts on AIM, Yahoo, MSN and Jabber.
- UI Customization: Customize your buddy lists, chat layouts, bubble styles, and more.
- Logging: View your chat history, and email yourself logs of your past chats.
- Buddy Icons: Show icons for all contacts in your buddy list.
- Clickable Hyperlinks: Click on real hyperlinks in chats, allowing you to browse, call, tweet, email, text, or PIN message directly from a chat screen.
BeejiveIM 2.0 is now available for $9.95 for a device license and $14.95 for user license. This price represents a sale of 50% off that is valid until January 1st 2010. Not sure if you want to buy? They have a 30-day free trial.
RIM is on an updating roll bringing all the IM clients to 2.5 with some new features. Apart from being OS 5.0-compatible, the new clients feature deeper integration with BlackBerry address book contacts, conversation search function, and better emoticon selection.
There is also a new feature that allows you to save a favorite contact as a home screen icon for even faster navigation.
Grab the latest version of your favorite flavor IM client:
The Deal of the Day was a huge success on BlackBerry Cool and we’ll continue running it every Friday. Each week, we’ll choose a new product and slash the price in half. This week’s deal is IM+ All-in-One Messenger.
IM+ All-in-One-Messenger by SHAPE Services is normally priced at $39.95, and today we’re giving it away at $19.97. IM+ has recently been updated to version 8.0 which supports MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, ICQ, AOL, Google Talk, Jabber, MySpace IM, Facebook chat, and Twitter.
This is a great messenger which you may have considered overpriced at first, but now affordable.
Purchase IM+All-in-One Messenger for $19.97.
Stay tuned for our next Deal of the Day!
Finally, AT&T is releasing the service books to run native AIM and ICQ clients on BlackBerry. If you’re an IM fiend, I suggest heading over to mobile.blackberry.com and downloading both apps. The clients are working smoothly with the BlackBerry OS and they compliment GTalk and Windows Live Messenger, making you and your device the ultimate IM machine.
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