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Awesome new version of Trillian might be the best iPhone chat app
When I first reviewed Trillian for iPhone, it showed promise, but it wasn't quite ready for the bigtime yet. I had a couple of minor issues with the 1.0 release, including a lack of landscape mode and making it too much of a pain to close a chat. Well, Trillian has fixed both of those issues, and much, MUCH more in the new version 1.1.Trillian now supports Facebook Chat, allows you to stay signed in for up to 7 days, and includes a bunch of other tiny improvements that I can't help but appreciate. Ignoring AOLSystemMsg when you're signed into AIM twice? Thank you! New sorting options for contacts (by status or by name, with groups or without)? Aw, yeah! I'm now considering making Trillian my main IM app, displacing BeejiveIM. The two are basically neck-and-neck in usability, but Trillian wins on price if you don't have either app yet: it's $4.99, compared to $9.99 for BeeJive.
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Subscribe to commentsMichaelMar 27th 2010 5:06PM
I couldn't agree more... I am very impressed with the upgrade. They did a great job on it.
chronoMar 27th 2010 10:44PM
You failed to mention Meebo, whose iPhone app does pretty much the same things as both Trillian and Beejive, and is FREE!
icechaiMar 28th 2010 12:51AM
yup, Meebo is free and faster than both apps...
SDreamerMar 28th 2010 2:46AM
I refuse to pay for software to use something that's already free. The best part of Trillian on the desktop is the free part of it, not sure why they don't have a free counterpart for the iPhone. On my iPod I just stick with Meebo, it does everything I need a client to do, even IM+ Lite does it well. I guess you get some extras, but honestly I'd rather use the native client, knowing my chats don't go through a proxy server before getting through to the person I'm conversing with. If I have to sacrafice that, I'd rather not pay to do that, and just use something free like Meebo or IM+.
AndrewMar 29th 2010 12:38PM
Trillian the best? With Meebo available? I think not.
isles05Mar 29th 2010 12:59PM
I don't consider myself an idiot, but I feel real dumb because I can't find where you can sort contacts on the iPhone? Its not in the release notes or forums.....if someone can end my stupidity, that would be great