As we all know that BlackBerry devices Playbook has poor sales, but that does not mean this devices are bad. We see the BlackBerry Playbook has several advantages compared with other tablet devices such bright screen, soft and responsif on screen keyboard, perfect browser, multitasking capabilities, and good audio especially for a tablet device.
Google has provided an update to Android 4.0 or also known as Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) for the Google Nexus S, this device previously loaded with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and now the new firmware is available for download. With this update, this phone now has the same firmware with the Galaxy Nexus.
The update is available Over The Air (OTA) as update.zip file for I9020T & I9023. Detailed instructions for manually flashing of the device can be read via XDA-Developers website. [via SammyHub]
The new version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) apps planned to be released soon with few enhancement and now there is new BlackBerry Messenger v6.0.0.111 thats appears on BlackBerry Beta Zone's page.
This new version to coincide with the launch of the BBM Social Platform SDK that will be coming on July 8th 2011, while we all waiting for the official release we can get this BBM v6.0.0.111 at BlackBerry Beta Zone for user who have access to that site.What’s New -You won’t see any new features in this version since we’ve focused on fixing a lot of the bugs found in BBM 6 and the BBM Social Platform. We really need developers to update to this version, but we would still like beta testers to test this version from an end user’s perspective to make sure everything’s working fine! So enjoy this new version! Use BBM as you normally would and leave feedback in the discussion forum if you see anything “funny”. We may follow up with a survey in future to get your feedback on any issues found in this version . Thanks to everyone who reported any bugs or feature requests for BBM v6.0.0.73. They’ve all been shared with the project team and we’re actively investigating them for future versions of BBM.
So this just in, after Facebook updates their Android app, Twitter also updates their Android app. The update adds a couple of new features as well making the app looks more polished and faster.
So what new features are we talking about here? If you have used the iPhone version, you'll notice some of its new features is included in the new update. First is the pull down refresh, now you can pull down the timeline to get new tweets, it works great and very intuitive, oh and it also includes the sound effect that you usually heard in the iPhone version.
Second is if you slide one of the tweet to left or right, it will shows you various options like reply, Retweet, favorite, show profile and share tweet. If you tap the Retweet button, it will also ask you if you want to use native retweet or quote retweet. The tweet page details also got updated, its a lot more like the iPhone version now with buttons at the bottom of the page. The only thing that I missed from this update, is there is no 'Jump to Top' feature.
Some of you guys might not like the update by saying this is just make the Android version lost its uniqueness, but I disagree, I was expecting a couple of features from the iPhone version to be "ported" to Android version. While the execution of these new features might not yet as good as the iPhone version, the update showed you that Twitter is trying to bring a consistent design to every official Twitter app on every platform.
Now I'm currently wondering, will the Blackberry version gets an update soon?
Following the Facebook's event today, the company brings a new update to its Android app. The new update includes Places and also Groups along with the new Single Sign On feature. Places was launched earlier this year for the iOS platform. Places is pretty similar to Foursquare or Gowalla which allows you to check-in to interesting places (eg. Restaurants, Movie Theater.) Places is currently only works for selected region, unfortunately it is not available for Indonesia yet.
Groups is another new feature that the version 1.4 has. You can view groups and also its members. It has all the basic functionality including text posts and also photos. Unfortunately, for some reason I couldn't get this working. After I tap the Groups it will keeps on loading, but didn't show me anything.
Notification system is also gets an update for the Android version. Instead of redirecting you to its mobile site after you tap the notification, now it will take you back to the app.
One of the Japanese mobile operator, Softbank Mobile also will upgrade the HTC Desire firmware to Android 2.2 Froyo. Update will available via OTA and available on October 8th 2010. It seems that this will have the same system (with Japanese language support of course).
Updates also will bring additional features just as what obtained by users in areas such as America and Europe, including full support for Adobe Flash.Softbank Mobile has announced that they would initiate an update via OTA to customers of HTC Desire on October 8th. Updates will upgrade phone to Android 2.2 Froyo, with Flash 10.1, Camera HD 720p capability, save the application directly to MicroSD card, and some native language sorting problems will be solved. [via AndroidCentral]
Research In Motion (RIM) has released the latest update from their official IM client like Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and others. Unfortunately we do not know what the latest features offered on this new version, but users can get the update on the BlackBerry App World or on the link below:
The news for users of Motorola Milestone, Dext or Backflip that was awaiting an official upgrade to Android Froyo and Eclair. Motorola has released a schedule of upgrades for mobile android Android 2.x product.
But before you are too excited, we would like to inform you about the upgrade Android 2.x for the Asia-Pacific (excluding Korea) region was still 'under evaluation' and no details of when the upgrade will be available. Here is the schedule of upgrades for owners of Motorola's Android 2.x Backflip, Dext, Milestone, Quench, Motoroi, Titanium in the Asia Pacific region.
If you ask me and probably most of Android users about Facebook App, one thing that came into our mind is that the app is inferior compared to the iPhone's or Blackberry's. The interface is ugly and most of its feature is basically a wrapper of its mobile webpage. But not anymore, last night Facebook just released a new update for Android and its awesome.
