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Sunday 18 March 2012

Blackberry updates BBM, Facebook and Twitter apps

 

Blackberry updates have been hitting the Web recently and today the company announced plans to update the Blackberry Messenger, Facebook and Twitter apps for the Blackberry operating system.  The updated Facebook and Twitter apps have been updated to 3.0.0.16 and 3.0.0.9, respectively, with the Blackberry Messenger app getting released in 6.2 beta.  The updates come after what seems like a very long wait for anything to happen from Research in Motion.  The Blackberry Bold and Torch handsets were just updated on the T-Mobile network, but that really has been the only news lately.

The Facebook mobile app for Blackberry was updated and includes improved BBM Connect integration, including a feature that allows you to share a specific post with a BBM contact.  The user interface was also improved and has easier access to privacy settings, improved Facebook notifications, which includes those that were not pushed to the device, based on usage.  The Twitter mobile app for the Blackberry operating system comes with improvements as well.  Improved features include the same BBM Connect integration, Twitter photo service integration, URL shortening feature, new Tweet layout and the integration of Promoted Tweets, or ads.

As far as the Blackberry Messenger goes, the upgrades and improvements cover a little more ground.  First up is the animated display pictures – more of them are built into the BBM so that a user can change their picture to suit their mood.  Now you can change your name or message inline – quickly change your name or status messages without leaving your contact list.  Clicking your display picture still gives you access to your profile page.  Streamlined voice notes – Group chats have been added and if a user selects a contact and taps the convenience key the user can start recording a voice note.  When done recording the voice note will be sent.

Enhancements to the Blackberry Tags were also added.  If your Blackberry handset supports NFC, you can allow automatic invitations by tapping option.  As long as a friend has BBM open you can add each other as contacts by aligning the back of your phones.  This feature is only available to those with the latest version of BBM installed.  Resending a message – if a message did not send, all you have to do is highlight the message and select Resend from the menu.  And lastly, Search was updated so that when you are typing a name of contact, the search ignores special characters and emoticons to make things easier to find.

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Blackberry App Development

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