I am almost positive iChat will be released to the iPhone but until then let the power of Web 2.0 power your chatting. Before I go on i highly recommend you do not just go out and try every web application on your iPhone. As there are a lot of bad ones which will steal your accounts. It may even be smart to create a separate account for your iphone to use on web apps. Anyways heres what you wanted, open up safari and browse to iphone.beejive.com login and your good! This is a very lightweight client(unlike meebo) which should load quickly and run smoothly on your iPhone.

Benefits

• Unlimited Instant Messaging, no need to pay that ridiculous SMS charge.
• Talk to people on the computer

Disadvantages

• Can’t send to cell phones unless you are on AIM and send an im to +(countrycode)(number), country code for the USA is 1 so an example would be +12223335555. This will give you unlimited messages but the standard text messaging fees will apply to the person on the other end.

Alternatives

• Mail app: 100% through apple can send email to phones or computers, and don’t need to worry about your account getting jacked. It is not “instant messaging” but it is still a quick way to relay messages.
• Meebo: More reputable but very slow page loads and its a bit had to navigate

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