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 (NSDQ: AAPL)’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]