About Meebo from its creators – “Meebo gives you the freedom to share. Whether you use Meebo here or on your favorite sites around the web, Meebo brings you and your friends together.”
Meebo has finally released an official app for the iPhone that lets you connect to your Meebo account from your iPhone. Meebo combines all of the instant messaging services into one convenient app. Meebo on the iPhone supports a very large amount of services, including the big ones like AIM, MSN, Yahoo! IM, Google Talk, MySpace IM, ICQ, Jabber, and Facebook Chat. If you’re already using Meebo then the Meebo iPhone app will automatically pull in your account settings and log you into your accounts just as you have setup online already.
The app is broken down into 3 tabs: Buddies, Chats and Accounts. Buddies lists all your contacts along with a service icon, buddy icon, status, and nickname, sorted by your custom groups. You can search for people by name and tap on any buddy to start a chat. Tap the + icon if you’de like to add a new buddy, type in their name and choose the network.
The Chat tab shows a list of all your active chats and is broken down into all, or recent. Chat messages are shown in little bubbles, similar to what you see in the iPhone’s native text messaging app, but with a more subdued color finish. You can insert smileys by tapping the happy face icon. You can swipe left and right to toggle between active chats quickly.
The Accounts tab is where you can view and edit your online status, list of all your connected accounts, and where you can add new ones, sign on and off, and edit some account settings as well. A bunch more settings can be found if you go into the Meebo section of your iPhone’s settings section. From there you can enable landscape keyboards, auto-correct, auto-capitalization, showing timestamps on IM, and more.
Overall the Meebo iPhone app is a great IM utility for the iPhone. If you are already using the Meebo Desktop Notifier software or FireFox plugins, then the iPhone app will be right up your alley. It is currently free in the Apple App Store and also available for Android and Blackberry.
