NOW AVAILABLE ON THE APP STORE: We are proud to announce Trillian for iPhone, a native application for your iPhone and iPod Touch! With the advancements of iPhone OS 3.0 and our latest Astra technology, we are happy to be able to give you the best possible IM experience on your favorite mobile device.

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We’ve been getting more and more questions from customers wondering where the heck our iPhone App is. Unfortunately, we have no idea.

It’s been 60 days since our initial and only submission to the App Store. Unlike many of the horror stories you may have read about, we haven’t yet received a rejection notice and we’re not frantically going back and forth with Apple fixing reported problems. Despite sending a steady stream of emails to Apple requesting status updates, we continue to receive generic form letters in response – frustrating, to say the least. As developers, we absolutely understand and appreciate Apple’s need to quality control applications – including the need for additional review time when warranted – but being kept in the dark for two months is a strange way to accomplish this. Cerulean remains ready and willing to work with Apple to ensure the software meets all necessary requirements.

This is an important product to us and we’ll continue our efforts to bring it to market. Thanks for your patience and support!

Build 118 has been released to fix a few bugs with Facebook and IRC. If you’ve been having a problem getting Facebook Chat to connect lately, you should install this update and try again. This is an optional update, meaning you won’t need to install it if you’re not impacted by the particular bugs we’ve fixed.  In other news:

• Trillian for Windows 4.1 is coming along nicely, and we hope to have more detailed information to share with everyone soon.  After getting 4.0 out the door, we’ve been working hard on cool new enhancements, UI improvements, and implementing as many community feature requests as we can!  Look for 4.1 to improve many different aspects of your current Trillian experience.
• Trillian for iPhone was submitted to the App Store on August 14th, the same day we released Trillian Astra 4.0.  We haven’t been accepted or rejected yet and are patiently awaiting a response from Apple. Should the app be rejected, we’ll update the blog and explain what we’re doing to address any problems Apple’s reviewers uncovered. In the meantime, we’re in the dark and keeping our fingers crossed.
• Trillian 3.1.14.0 is being slowly rolled out to 3.x customers this week.  It features upgrades to the Yahoo! engine to ensure protocol compatibility with Yahoo!’s latest servers.  We recommend that 3.x customers capable of doing so upgrade to the 4.x series as soon as possible; as a rule, the protocol engines within 4.x will always be the most reliable and up-to-date.

Thanks for your interest and support!

New versions of the iPhone and Web clients have been released – Trillian for iPhone Build 272 and Trillian for Web Build 621. We’ve been making minor tweaks to the iPhone version – nothing changelog-worthy – but this build is a required update. Although we try to avoid forcing updates on iPhone users, a minor tweak to our backend protocol made this upgrade a forced update. Please use the original download link in your invitation to update your device and let us know if you see any issues. Enjoy!

More fixes for the iPhone and Web versions today – Trillian for iPhone Build 269 and Trillian for Web Build 600. Testers for the web version should be automatically upgraded the next time they login to the service, and iPhone users should use the download link in their invitation email to grab the latest build. We’ve also decided to hold off on distributing Windows Build 112 to the general testing population as it introduced a few regression bugs we’d rather not force on everyone, so we’re working on getting Build 113 out instead. Enjoy the new builds!

iPhone testers: the provision file has been updated in 269! Don’t forget to re-install it by following the original instructions in the README file or the build won’t run!