Comments on: Quick Look: Meebo, a free multi-client IM app for iPhone [iPhone App Reviews]

By: Chris Reese

Chris Reese — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:54:24 +0000

I have used Meebo.com for about 4 months now as my dedicated IM client. yesterday I downloaded the iPhone app and promptly deleted the IM+ app.

Meebo not only houses all the services I need (more than IM+) but it also has a very fast app. The Push Notifications worked perfectly for me, not sure where your difficulty was.

I do agree, the settings are still a bit weak. I believe you are never logged out until you tell it to log out.

One interesting item, if you use Meebo.com, when you are logged in to the website it will disable the push notifications but leave you logged in on your phone, so you can then leave the website and conversations will continue on your phone.

Best integration I have ever seen.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:46:09 +0000

In reply to Chris Reese.

good observation with the web-app tie in for notifications, Chris, that is a really cool idea.

As for the push notifications themselves: I routinely received mine 30-60 mins late, if at all. Maybe it's just the Meebo servers being run down by the influx of new users…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:45:02 +0000

In reply to Josh Gard. Thanks Josh, and ditto - I got one or two crashes myself, but figured it was just my setup.

By: Josh Gard

Josh Gard — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:22:14 +0000

I saw this come out earlier today, and have given it a try. Unfortunately for me, I seem to be getting a lot of random app crashes, most usually when changing my online status (away, active, offline, etc). I rarely experience any app crashes on my iPhone, and it's actually very stable overall, maybe once a week at most. But the Meebo app has crashed out nearly a dozen times in the hour I've been playing with it. And yes, I've removed and reinstalled, rebooted, all of that normal stuff. Hopefully others have a better experience than I have. Meebo looks to be a good start, but until stability improves, I'm sticking with the much more powerful BeejiveIM. Great post Thomas! 🙂