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Beejive IM Beta Now Available for Blackberry Storm

by Adam Zeis on 5 May 2009 10:05 AM
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Beejive

Everyone's favorite all-in-on instant messaging application has finally made it to beta for the Storm 9500 & 9530. Until now there was not a Storm specific version, and the standard version didn't fair all that well on the touchscreen device. If you've been waiting for this to drop, head over to http://www.beejive.com/stormbeta on your mobile browser to download.  Keep in mind this is an early beta, so some features like chat logs and file transfers have been left out.  If you need assitance or want to report a bug, hit up their support forum.

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Posted by tealturboser Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

About time. Only took 6 months lol, it better be good.

 
 
Posted by joski Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

is actually pretty awesome so far and it's only in beta! I've gotten a few errors but it's so fast and works quite well!

 
 
Posted by aviteri57 Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

niceeee will def give it a try

 
 
Posted by robotmarv12 Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

i heard so much about this cant wait to try it

 
 
Posted by John_5_24 Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

This looks great, but is there anything that includes BB Messenger as well?

 
 
Posted by Free4All Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Reminds me of iChat. Memory footprint isn't bad either, so the phone doesn't slow down. If they got BBMessenger in here I think I would drop the $$ to buy it (still might anyway. who knows)

One thing, for me at least, is that you have to go into the chat you want to close in order to exit it because that feature doesn't work from the home screen.

 
 
Posted by Queen4111 Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

GREAT! I hope they have a low introductory price.

 
 
Posted by korp Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

What a great way to start my day.

 
 
Posted by flowers74 Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Just downloaded, it was working fine till my phone rebooted now when I try to sign in it says sign in time out... ???

 
 
Posted by dano Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

All I get to see is an uncaught exception. Wonderful.

 
 
Posted by dha820 Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

working great for me so far.

 
 
Posted by qdenning Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Adding accounts right now. So far, seems much faster than on my curve 8330.

 
 
Posted by dha820 Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

and it has flick scrolling!

 
 
Posted by ArthurJguy Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

I have found a bug, where can we report these?

If you have the theme for messages set to anything besides bubbles, or bubbles with icons, and you do not have an IM window for the user you are chatting with open - you get an uncaught exception error.

I wanted to run the classic theme for the message window, now I'm stuck with bubbles like the freaking iphone. Lame.

Good app so far though.

 
 
Posted by 312 Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

How can they make you pay for a Beta?? When you start it, it asks if you want the trial or if you want to register...

 
 
Posted by kjdoug Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Huge memory leak! I lost 6 megs in like 10 mins....

 
 
Posted by blaisedinsd Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Is this better than Instango?

Is it free like Insatngo?

 
 
Posted by kjdoug Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

I take my previous comment back..i somehow gained my memory back...and more....lol...guess there isn't a leak after all

 
 
Posted by ddavis515 Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

should i buy this one or is there going to be a better version coming out soon since this is a beta?

 
 
Posted by liquidsense Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Hands down, the best third-party application (of any category) I have used so far on the Storm. The BeeJive for my old Curve was nearly perfect, but this new version includes so many enhancements.

Love the flick scrolling and the "touch" functions (e.g., double-touch (not double-click) any buddy and their info will pop up).

Really great work BeeJive.

 
 
Posted by Nology Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Finally! Found one prob... If you end a chat and receive an IM from the same person the chat box comes up blank. Doesn't seem to have the spell checker like AIM.

 
 
Posted by laztradamus Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

DL'd it at lunch and been using it all day. No problems yet, and FLICK SCROLLING... if they could only get the whole damn phone to use that then we'd be in business...

 
 
Posted by S4D Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Is anyone having a problem with the facebook IM part? I get a timeout message when I try and connect. Have restarted - no help. AIM works well though.

 
 
Posted by graymulligan Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Been waiting for this one, and it looks like they've done a solid job all the way across.

I'm not seeing the error with changing the themes within the program...I can swap back and forth to classic/bubbles/etc without the uncaught exception. Weird.

For a beta, she looks pretty much done...not a lot of issues. Yay.

 
 
Posted by scarfacehorror Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

very good, spotted a few bugs, but it is a beta so it should/would get much better....

ITS ABOUT TIME

 
 
Posted by OutfieldJack Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1111 days ago

Seems to drain my battery quickly.

 
 
Posted by socaloha Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1110 days ago

Hello all - I downloaded from the link just fine. However, every time I try to launch the application I get the following error message.

Error starting
BeejiveIM$2d4_7
$2dvga: Class
'com.beejive.jivetalk.BB
ChatStore$ChatEntry'
multiply defined.

Any suggestions on how to fix? I sent the error message to Beejive asking for assistance but have not received a response.

Thanks in advance.

 
 
Posted by lala.lala.808 Thursday, May 07, 2009 1109 days ago

It seems like they updated the release to v1.9.1 today and made some changes based on feedback.

you can download it at the same link: beejive.com/stormbeta

 
 
Posted by the_paulus Monday, May 25, 2009 1091 days ago

It still needs work, but that's why they call it Beta.

I've been using BeeJive on my Storm for 12 hours and I'm constantly getting

"class java.lang.IllegalArgumentException, null" when I receive messages. This is not limited to a specific protocol.

The keyboard likes to disappear when in full qwerty mode. On occasional the keyboard will flip.

From the menu, "Send IM" is not implemented yet.

The app does get a little sluggish at times, but it's nothing intolerable.

I still use it because I like it so much. I hope they get the bugs worked out soon! Totally worth the money.