Filed under: Social Software, iPhone
Trillian brings impressive multi-network chat to the iPhone
Trillian, the excellent all-purpose chat app we've loved for years on the PC, just made the leap to the iPhone.There are a lot of things to love about this pocket-sized version of Trillian, including its great-looking interface and its support for several different chat services. You'll need to sign up for a free Astra account if you don't already have one, but it's nice that Trilian's existing desktop users can just plug and play with no account setup required.
Little perks of Trillian on the iPhone include push notifications (yay!) and the ability to send photos. Managing contacts is also pretty easy. In fact, Trillian's the first iPhone chat app I've seen that has a straightforward way of moving contacts between groups.
I do have a couple of minor bones to pick with Trillian, though. First, no landscape keyboard? Seriously? IM is a typing-intensive activity, and the iPhone's small portrait keyboard doesn't cut it for fast and furious chats.
Second: it takes two clicks to close your current chat (the "more" button and then "end conversation"). Can't we just get a close button? These are minor issues with what's otherwise a great app, and a decent value at $4.99, especially if you use more than one chat service at a time.
[via CNET]
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Andy Magoon said 11:22AM on 11-20-2009
Hi Jay,
Thanks for the feedback - we're working on those issues, and plan to add landscape keyboard to an update as well as 7-day sign-on time. There are some other goodies that will come soon as well.
Andy Magoon
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Sgt Zeppelin said 11:30AM on 11-20-2009
Sounds nice, but it's too late for me. Beejive is more expensive, but it's got the features I need (want).
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rick said 10:08PM on 11-20-2009
geez, give 'em a break; it's a 1.0 release.
Sgt Zeppelin said 3:33PM on 11-21-2009
I wasn't trying to bash it, I'm just saying that I already have a client that I've bought and use. I'm sure a lot of other people are in the same situation. At some point down the road as they add features and work out stability problems (if there are any), I might buy it, but right now it would seem sorta crazy.
Yanith said 12:10AM on 11-21-2009
Geez... if it was free i would be all over it, but since astra is what, 2... 3...years late (i lost count) i don't care anymore.
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Rob said 2:00PM on 11-21-2009
I'm kinda with Yanith on this one. I absolutely LOVE the Trillian Astra client for windows, but since they were dragging their heels on the iphone client, I went with Fring which served my purposes (and is free).
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MrGutts said 8:17AM on 11-23-2009
When I do use a client, I kind of like Ebuddy.
The Trillian folks really upset me about 5 years ago.
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