Meebo IM

by Antonio Wells Jun 4, 2009 10:21 AM – 4 Comments

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Meebo is a totally free IM program that supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace IM, Google Talk, Jabber and ICQ. It uses data (not SMS) to send messages. If you use a Meebo account, your IM history will be saved so that you can access it from any computer by logging in at http://www.meebo.com

Price: Free

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Features:

Meebo Android App is a great way to keep a consolidated chat while on the go. You can concurrent sign on and chat on GTalk, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Facebook, Meebo, MySpace, MSN and Jabber. View your conversations, active and offline friends. It even allows you to update your status message.

Gripe Alert: You must have the the app open to receive IM notifications, so you are logged out automatically frequently. The positive benefit of this is conservation on poor battery life. Additionally you can’t send or receive new friend requests via the app, those must be done via the native app/network prior.

: Meebo IM Account Start Screen

: Meebo IM List of Instant Messaging Friends

: Meebo IM in Chat

: Meebo IM Set Status Message

: Meebo Add Buddy

: Meebo Settings Menu

Video: Meebo IM

Meebo for Android from Meebo on Vimeo.

Usefulness:

For the chatty social network junkie, Meebo Android App is a decent choice. Especially if you have more than one account.

Ease of Use:

Meebo Android App is very straight-forward, simply enter your various chat network credentials and go!

Frequently Used:

Frequency of use is user dependant… really based on your IM needs.

Interface:

The chat user interface is simple and organized for mobile use.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

(3.6 out of 5)

Should you Download Meebo IM? Sure, give it a spin though not superior to the default IM app created by Google.

Developer: meebo

Tags: AIM, Android Chat Client, Facebook, Google Talk, ICQ, Instant Messenger, Jabber, Meebo IM, MSN, Myspace, Yahoo

Categorised in: Communication

4 Comments

By Gavin on July 23, 2009 at 11:53 am:

Pretty much all the IM apps are like this. They need to have some sort of “recieve offline messages” system. then I wouldn’t mind getting signed off all the time.

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By Glenn on January 6, 2010 at 6:04 am:

Pretty good. I only really use it for Facebook Chat as this is the only app I know of that supports Facebook Chat

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By vani on March 3, 2011 at 7:34 am:

When can we expect Meebo as open source for developers use,And the API it follows.

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By Phil4 on March 19, 2011 at 2:15 pm:

Check ReChat (Android chat):
- Facebook, Google Talk, basic Jabber/XMPP;
- multiple accounts at once;
- plain/bubble views. Customize avatar/font sizes;
- font packs (download separate apk to keep memory);
- send image;
- full Unicode support;
- favorites (always in contact list);
- customize income message notification: default sound/your sound file, LED, vibration, status bar notification;
- chat history. Export (email) selected messages, open chat messages, whole history for a contact, whole history for all contacts. Archive attachment with 7zip.

Facebook features:
- all non-chat permissions are revoked, customize period, “revoke now”;
- upload image/short video (several share options);
- send image/short video to a contact (as private wall post);
- send message to a contact (as a private event or private wall post);
- set status message.

Google Talk features:
- showing total count of unread emails;
- marking contacts with unread emails;
- new email notification;
- list of unread emails subjects (without content);
- add/remove contacts.

Basic Jabber/XMPP features:
- add/remove contacts.

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