So far one of the most requested features for the iPhone is a chat program, and according to various sites JiveTalk is the best.

My 2cents is to just wait, I believe we’ll get our iChat when Leopard is released. Why? Because the new iChat will work with the iPhone doing things that hasn’t been released yet.

In the mean time give JiveTalk a try.

JiveTalk offers nice IM for iPhone: “The race to see who will rule IM on the iPhone has begun. Last week, Dave wrote about Meebo. It works, but has flaws (the buddy list is very far from the chat window for some reason, and the chat window can’t be resized).

Today, I came across JiveTalk, which offers simultaneous login to AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, ICQ, and Jabber. The alpha release for iPhone worked pretty well during my brief testing.

The UI resembles iChat. I had multiple AIM conversations open, and a small notification window told me when the inactive conversation had received an update. Also, two ‘chat bubbles’ at the top of the screen let me toggle between conversations.

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)