Beejive 2.0 for iPhone…In Pictures!

Mobile Crunch was lucky enough to get a pre-release version of a big update to Beejive IM for iPhone.  This 2.0 version brings many enhancements including all types of file transfers whether it’s images, sounds, or documents.  Beejive has you covered.  Images show up in the bubbles themselves.  Clicking on the picture opens a full screen version.  Another nice touch is the document transfer support.  Word, Excel, and many other office documents can be sent and received all within Beejive.  A small feature but they included was the ability to change the sending/receiving sounds from default to either the stock AIM or Yahoo sounds.  That should please a few people, although I don’t see the sounds as a make or break feature, I’m sure there are a few people out there who do.  In short, Beejive updates an already impressive messaging app into an even more full featured and robust app sure to please many fence sitters.  

All there other cheaper IM apps in the app store?  Yes.  Do those cheaper apps do the same thing as Beejive?  Yes.  Do they look as good doing it or perform as well as Beejive?  No!  In my Blackberry days I used Beejive extensively.  And on Blackberry it costs $30 so you people whining about $16 put a cork in it.  $16 is a steal.  Its kind of sad that the $.99 iPhone app craze is distorting many young users’ views on what a mobile app should cost.  Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Palm, and Symbian apps are generally more than $5-$10, let alone $.99.  Enough of my ranting, check the gallery for pics of Beejive 2.0.

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