A new version of Trillian for iPhone is being sent out to beta testers today, and all existing beta testers should be receiving an email from us with details. We hope to have the new version ready for submission to the App Store in the coming weeks, but it has not been submitted yet! After listening carefully to user feedback since the launch of 1.0, we’ve included some exciting new features in 1.1:

• Landscape mode.
• Facebook chat.
• 7 day signout.
• Many new contact list options: sorting, offline contacts, new view modes, and more!
• Various enhancements to the contact information screen.
• Tidying up the message window controls for improved usability.
• Pulling through more options from our desktop app, including contact privacy and per-connection settings (including hostname/port tweaks for XMPP).
• Additional bugfixes and smaller usability enhancements.

Feel free to take a peek at the full changelog if you’re interested in the specifics. We will keep the updates coming and let everyone know once a build gets sent to Apple for review. Have a great weekend!

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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UPDATE: Trillian for iPhone has been approved for sale on the App Store.

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!