July 9th, 2010 
Brandon from The Droid Bros. 
Cerulean Studios, makers of the popular Trillian multi-protocol IM program, have announced that an Android beta is in development and coming soon. It will join Meebo, eBuddy, Fring, and other multi-protocol clients currently on the Market. The beta screenshots posted so far show a cool tabbed interface and speech-bubble messaging. Read on for more of the announced features.
Cerulean lists Facebook Chat, Windows Live! Messenger, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, and MySpaceIM as supported protocols. We’re not sure if anyone uses MySpaceIM(?), but we have used all the others, and will add that the current Facebook Chat clients in the Android Market are not enterprise-level software. We’re looking to see if Trillian’s offering outclasses the current contenders.
Trillian for Android
The app’s feature list includes everything one could hope for in a mobile version:
Trillian for Android will include all the fantastic features of Trillian you are familiar with, such as:
- Connect to Facebook Chat, Windows Live, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP and MySpaceIM
- Synchronize your contacts, avatars, status, accounts and more with your Trillian-enabled desktop or mobile apps
- Get notified easily with Android notification system integration
- Contact list sorting, grouping, metacontacts support, privacy settings and various ways to organize
- Set status, avatar and display name quickly in one simple screen
- Tabbed chat windows with bubble view, photo transfer, buzz and emoticon support
- Support for Android phones as far back as version 1.6 – works with your good old T-Mobile G1 or the newest HTC Evo 4G or Motorola Droid!
- We took special care and respect to design and build the user interface to smoothly integrate with Android – this is not just a clone from the iPhone!
That last note about the user interface is certainly a welcome breath of fresh air.
Trillian will work on Android versions as early as 1.6, and it is nice to see studios taking older handsets into account. Cerulean specifically lists the T-Mobile G1 as supported.
If all goes on schedule, the first beta will be out in a few weeks.
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