Beejive IM Beta Now Available for Blackberry Storm

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.
tealturboser May 5, 2009 at 10:10 am
About time. Only took 6 months lol, it better be good.
joski May 5, 2009 at 10:14 am
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!
aviteri57 May 5, 2009 at 10:17 am
niceeee will def give it a try
robotmarv12 May 5, 2009 at 10:34 am
i heard so much about this cant wait to try it
John_5_24 May 5, 2009 at 10:46 am
This looks great, but is there anything that includes BB Messenger as well?
Free4All May 5, 2009 at 11:50 am
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.
Queen4111 May 5, 2009 at 11:55 am
GREAT! I hope they have a low introductory price.
korp#IM May 5, 2009 at 12:02 pm
What a great way to start my day.
flowers74 May 5, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Just downloaded, it was working fine till my phone rebooted now when I try to sign in it says sign in time out... ???
dano#cb May 5, 2009 at 12:30 pm
All I get to see is an uncaught exception. Wonderful.
dha820 May 5, 2009 at 1:17 pm
working great for me so far.
qdenning May 5, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Adding accounts right now. So far, seems much faster than on my curve 8330.
dha820 May 5, 2009 at 1:21 pm
and it has flick scrolling!
ArthurJguy May 5, 2009 at 1:23 pm
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.
312 May 5, 2009 at 1:51 pm
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...
kjdoug May 5, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Huge memory leak! I lost 6 megs in like 10 mins....
blaisedinsd May 5, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Is this better than Instango?
Is it free like Insatngo?
kjdoug May 5, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I take my previous comment back..i somehow gained my memory back...and more....lol...guess there isn't a leak after all
ddavis515 May 5, 2009 at 4:07 pm
should i buy this one or is there going to be a better version coming out soon since this is a beta?
liquidsense May 5, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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.
Nology May 5, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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.
laztradamus May 5, 2009 at 4:56 pm
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...
S4D May 5, 2009 at 5:01 pm
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.
graymulligan May 5, 2009 at 5:07 pm
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.
scarfacehorror May 5, 2009 at 7:42 pm
very good, spotted a few bugs, but it is a beta so it should/would get much better....
ITS ABOUT TIME
OutfieldJack May 5, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Seems to drain my battery quickly.
socaloha May 6, 2009 at 11:43 pm
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.
lala.lala.808 May 7, 2009 at 9:32 pm
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
the_paulus May 25, 2009 at 10:39 pm
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.