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Foursquare for Blackberry V1.9 Now Available
Jul 20th
Everyone’s favorite friend tracking app has been updated to V1.9 and is loaded with plenty of new features to keep you busy “checkin”ing to venues. One of the notable new features added to this new version (other than increased battery life), is the ability to upload photos from your check-in. This enables users and their friends to upload different photos from the same venue allowing followers to see a photo stream from different aspects of the event.
Other features added include:
- Sort Check-ins – Quickly sort your nearby check-ins by time (most recent check-in) or by distance (closest check-in).
- See Specials Nearby – Now you can see what venues feature specials when searching for what’s nearby.
- BlackBerry Maps Integration – From a venue details page, click on the Google map tile and automatically get launched into BlackBerry maps.
- Improved Battery Life – foursquare is always focused on battery performance and has made a few improvement. Expect even more improvements in the future.
- Improved Location Support – Additional improvements have been made to location, allowing for better location support when checking in.
- Small Tweaks & Fixes – foursquare is always listening to user feedback and making small fixes & tweaks along the way.
Pick-up Foursquare V1.9 OTA on your Blackberry here.
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Socialscope Update Being Pushed Out to Some Users, Brings New Features.
May 1st
Oh Socialscope, what a love-hate relationship we BlackBerry users have with you.
Socialscope has been in private beta for what seems like forever. The problem is once you manage to actually get in to the beta, you may or may not actually receive updates to the application before you move into a nursing home. How the team at Socialscope decides which users do and do not receive updates is unclear, but it appears that the majority of people don’t receive the updates right away.
For whatever reason, I have been one of the fortunate few to receive updates in what appears to be (based on other Twitter users’ feedback) the earliest timeframe possible.
Thursday night I was prompted to update the Socialscope application from 0.9.5.88 to 0.9.5.98. I assumed that the update would just be some much-needed bug fixes as the last couple updates have been, but luckily, there were some significant new features introduced.
As you may know Socialscope isn’t just a great Twitter client for BlackBerry, but it also does an excellent job integrating Facebook, Flickr, and even Foursquare. In this update Facebook implementation got a huge update bringing in-app profile viewing and full photo album viewing. Also, more items are being pulled into the Facebook feed, instead of just statuses and wall posts, some 3rd-party application information is included. This isn’t necessarily a good thing however, unless of course you want to know who your friend’s “lover of the day” is. Still, the ability to easily view people’s profiles without being redirected to Facebook’s mobile site is a welcome addition, and photo album viewing rivals that of the native Facebook for BlackBerry application (which I don’t use thanks to Socialscope).
The new version also brings a slightly refreshed “tweet view” with refreshed fonts and a cleaned up layout. The functionality is the same but it looks better and displays information more clearly. New-style retweets are also finally supported in this build, allowing users to properly view and send retweets via “retweet” and “comment” options. Under the hood, this new version runs much faster and loads avatars, tweets, and any photos included quicker and more reliably. Many times in previous versions photos wouldn’t load until I individually selected tweets, even then they would appear slower than they should. Geotagging has also become much more reliable, finding my location more quickly and more accurately, making Foursquare much more useable.
All in all this was an unexpectedly feature-filled update. While it’s hard to predict Socialscope’s direction with the application (seeing how it’s been in beta for so long) it’s nice to see they are still bringing new feature to at least some users.
If you aren’t a Socialscope user yet go ahead and try your hand at getting an invite into the beta, and if you already use the application, let us know if you’ve seen an update lately and what version you’re running.
Foursquare For Blackberry Updated With New UI, Speed Increase
Apr 20th
Foursquare for Blackberry has been updated again, and this time it’s only minor tweaks to the app, as it has become very usable, very quickly (I remember getting into the first beta around Christmas 2009, so the app has come a long way in only five months.
This time, the UI is slightly different, and the company has incorporated a new back-end check-in system to make it harder to cheat, and speed up location awareness.
Hit up Foursquare for more information.
Foursquare for Blackberry Updated to 1.7
Mar 10th
To coincide with SXSWi, and the release of updates to their iPhone and Android apps, Foursquare has increased their Blackberry app from version 1.5.5 to 1.7. While they have not revamped the app to the extent of the iPhone, they have been steadily improved the app in a number of ways.
Places now have a distance from your location in addition to its address. This helps differentiate one Starbucks over the other if you’re not sure exactly where you are. It also brings the functionality up to date with Gowalla, which has been doing the same thing on their iPhone app since the beginning. The addition helps orient you with your surroundings and makes your check-in more personal.
There is a dedicated Tips tab now, allowing you access to all submitted tips from locations in your area. Little enhancements, like having a gold crown next to a friend’s name to indicate Mayor status of a particular place, as well as icons specifying the category of a location (such as Building, Restaurant, Exercise, etc.) all combine to improve the experience significantly.
But the most notable thing about the app, and the aspect that makes it almost as good as its iPhone counterpart, is its speed and accuracy. When Foursquare was in beta, it was almost impossible to get a lock on where you were, even if you were outside and had the GPS locked-in. Now, even indoors, the app is almost creepily accurate. It remembers your favourites, and even when there aren’t any favourites around you, it’s as if the act was looking across the street to see where you are.
It’s also fast, locking onto your location in seconds. This is another huge improvement over previous versions.
To be honest, this is one of the most actively-developed Blackberry apps at the moment, and I have to imagine there isn’t a lot of improvement left to make. From its beta in late December to its current iteration in mid-March, the app has come full circle, from barely-usable to masterfully complete.
If you use Foursquare, and own a Blackberry, you owe it to yourself to download Foursquare, now.
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