• Armadillo

    Nice little app .. Just loaded it. 

    The big question will be how much it will drain the battery because it has to keep the connection alive. 

    One thing to keep in mind: IM-ing relies on more or less complex protocols.  They can’t be implemented in javascript which means every web based solution has to use a 3rd party gateway to get in touch with the actual AIM (MSN, Y!, …) service.   So in this case everything goes through beehive’s server.  This is not a big deal in my eyes, just something to be aware of. 

    A ‘real’ application like the AIM client on your desktop or iChat for iPhone would implement the protocol directly on the client which makes the gateway u<span style=”font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Verdana”>nnecessary.</span>


  • danspeca

    So, how WAS the kayaking?

  • Vittoria

    Well, it’s good, except for it’s sometimes extremely slow. You wait for like 10 seconds to see the messages, another few seconds for the keyboard to show up. If your chat buddy send you a message while you are typing on the keyboard, it’ll lag really badly. What’s worse? the sideway thing, sometimes it crashes. You’ll see the thing in portrait mode, but the sideway bar is still there. Just sucks. 
    Loved the iPhone though. Cuz I’m a mac freak.