ÜberTwitter is one of the more popular Twitter clients from the BlackBerry and all its users are going to get a special treat in the form of an update. The newest update brings this app to beta version 7 and also brings a whole bunch of wanted updates to the app things like, Short-cut to Email a Tweet and www.twitpic.com URL now supported. If you would like to see the full change log just hit up the break or grab the download link below.
- Picture/Video Chooser – Modified to be much quicker and sort newest files to the top. Once BlackBerry fixes the bug in 5.0 which prevents us from using their built-in chooser, we will switch to that which will provide thumbnails.
- Viewing TwitLonger Tweets – Fixed bug where longer tweets were getting cut off
- Copy/Paste Links – Fixed a bug where when you copied/pasted a link from a tweet it would end up pasting the entire link.
- Avatar Uploads – Fixed a bug where some users avatar uploads would consistently fail.
- Flickr Image Support – Now support in-line thumbnails and viewing of Flickr images.
- TwitGoo – Now support in-line thumbnails and viewing of TwitGoo images.
- Pressing Enter on Uber Bar – Pressing ENTER on the Uber Bar will now select the tab.
- Friend Picker – Fixed a bug where the friend picker would sometimes not show up when pressing ‘@’
- Battery Drain – Fixed a bug where failures to load your friends list would significantly drain the battery.
- Short-cut to Email a Tweet – press ‘z’ to email a tweet!
- Spurious reboots/White Screens – Through painstaking tests with our test group we tracked down the issue that was causing spurious reboots and instability for some users.
- WiFi Only Fix – Fixed a bug where users with no data plan were unable to use the wifi only mode.
- Reply All and underscores – Fixed a bug in reply-all where users with an underscore were not getting copied properly.
- Added Cancel to retweet dialog – Added the option to select ‘cancel’ when being asked whether to use the new or old retweet method.
- Load More on list timelines – Fixed the ‘load more’ button so it actually works at the bottom of list timelines.
- Focus switch to tweet text – Changed the focus to be the tweet text and not the avatar when opening a tweet
- www.twitpic.com URL now supported – Now support www.twitpic.com for preview and image views.
- Inability to delete tweets less than 15 characters – Fixed the bug where you couldn’t delete tweets less than 15 characters.
- Adding account to account list – Fixed bug where adding a new account didn’t immediately show up in the account list.
- BirdNext Proxy Bug – Fixed a bug so that the Bird Next proxy will now work when posting tweets.
- New Style Retweets Truncated – Fixed bug where new style retweets would sometimes be truncated if the original tweet was close to 140 characters.
- Sponsored Content – Changed sponsored content ‘bubbles’ to look different then regular tweets.
- GPS failures – Fixed an issue where the built-in GPS would not be used for location.
- Exceptions when permissions were not granted – Fixed numerous issues which would be triggered if the application didn’t have adequate permissions.
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