iChabber brings Jabber, GTalk instant messaging to iPhone

iPhone users that are at the same time GTalk and/or Jabber fans — or at least have friends that use the mentioned instant messaging clients/services — here's a piece of good news for you. Thanks to the application called iChabber you can now chat with your GTalk/Jabber buddies on your shiny handset, natively. Sure, you can use some of the web-based solutions, and that's fine. But honestly I think native is the way to go when it comes to mobile instant messaging clients.

While the application is still far from being completed — there are some usability issues which can get really annoying — the good thing is that iChabber runs in the background allowing you to be in the loop as long as you stay logged in. That's cool and I guess that will also be the case with Apple's IM client once it's released alongside firmware 2.0 in June.

In the meantime, you can download iChabber from here or install it from iSpazio repo in Installer.app.

[Via: BoyGeniusReport]

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