Swype users should be happy to hear that the popular keyboard replacement has received a bit of an update to version 2.15.56.14870, which brings some fixes and new features. In addition to fixing an accuracy issue that was raised after the last release, Swype now supports double tap to edit, which allows the user to simply tap an incorrect word twice to bring up a word replacement window.
Another new feature is a voice to text button, although right now this only works with QWERTY layouts and phones with ROMs with Google Voice Search integration. They are currently working on support for Voice Search installed from the Android Market.
After a lengthy beta period, the screenshot and iSight utility Skitch has finally gone 1.0. With this release, both the app and its photo-sharing Website gained a long list of new features, including easier sharing links, cropping templates, full Website snapping, and more. A new paid option unlocks even more features and better integration with the Skitch.com site.
I told you the story about my wife and the Nokia N8 and am happy to report that I was able to get her a blue Nokia N8 through a timely purchase and swap deal that worked out for me and Mike Macias. She has been using it now for about a week and a couple of days ago I showed her the power of the device and she is even more pleased with the N8.
My wife is a Party Lite consultant so she travels around to different homes and has parties showing off candles, accessories, and food so having a reliable GPS system is extremely important to her. She has a 2002 Acura with a navigation system in it, but you need to pay $200 a year to get an updated DVD and the user interface blows. I showed her how to use Ovi Maps and we setup an account for her to use so she could enter in show addresses in advance and have them synced to her N8 as favorites.
Well, the other day she decided to follow the specific directions from the hostess to a location about 35 miles away from our house. She called me in a bit of distress because the directions she was given were junk and not getting her to the destination. I told her to give me a couple of minutes as I was going to help her using her new N8. Now, she could have simply launched Ovi Maps and went through entering the destination manually, but the specific address was on her desk at home so it was easier for me to just go into her Ovi Maps account on my Mac, enter the address, and click on the star icon to save it as a favorite. I then told her to start Ovi Maps and sync to her account. She tapped favorites, tapped the address, and within about 10 minutes she was successfully pulling up to her destination. I was a hero thanks to Ovi Maps and she will now start using her N8 even more for getting to her shows.
Speaking of Ovi Maps, there is a brand new beta version available over on Beta Labs, version 3.06, so make sure to go get it for your N8 right now. The list of new features is below, but one of the coolest is the ability to download maps for offline navigation right to the device, via WiFi, so you won’t need to connect through a PC or Mac and use MapLoader.
Download street maps directly to your device! A new feature called “Update” on the main menu which allows you download Street Maps directly (via WiFi) to your phone without a PC! Please note that phones without WiFi (e.g. Nokia 5230) will not work.
My Position and Search are now integrated (now called Map). When accessed, it will show your last map view
Back button in Favourites
Long tap functionality to delete & rename collections & routes
Pop up for first time use – to inform user to download new map data (when upgrading 3.04 > 3.06 for the first time)
Improved behaviours of transit lines settings in map toolbox (no more grey out)
Compass calibration hint
Refreshed place details information view
I personally find the lane assist through city driving to be essential and plan to record a video of Ovi Maps in action on my N8 soon so you can see what I am specifically talking about here. Anyone else have an Ovi Maps success story?
After a year of being in beta and becoming one of the top used Twitter clients out there, the folks behind ÜberTwitter have decided it’s high time to drop the beta tag from their releases. Available now, ÜberTwitter v1.0 maintains all the great features that fans have gotten used to as well adds a few final, touch ups to make the v1.0 an earned one.
Rich Facebook Posting – Optionally post your tweets directly to Facebook from your device. Pictures and location show up in your stream as rich media previews.
Bit.ly Pro – You asked and we delivered, now you can configure your own Bit.ly Pro account and track your own URL shortened links and take advantage of the advanced features that Bit.ly provides including the use of custom shortened URLs of your choosing.
Dismissible Ads – For those of you on touch screen devices with the Ad supported version, you can dismiss the ad at the bottom of the screen to give you more screen space.
If ÜberTwitter is your preffered Twitter client be sure to grab the latest update from the ÜberTwitter website today.
WinAmp for Android is leaving beta and going 1.0. Checking the market, it still looks beta, so perhaps the update has just been “announced” and being rolled out but not completely ready to go yet. Those of you using the WinAmp beta will likely be happy for the update, and if you haven’t tried it yet and are still using the default media player — you should really check it out, it’s a fine, free music player. And it allows syncing with WinAmp on your computer via wifi, which is quite handy. Full list of features includes:
Wireless Desktop Sync – In addition to the standard USB sync, Winamp for Android offers Wi-Fi sync with the Winamp desktop client.
iTunes Library – A stand-out feature of the WAFA app is the ability it affords users to import all music and playlists from iTunes.
Mobile Media Library– WAFA is a complete Android media management solution that seamlessly updates a user’s music library when changes are made either on the device or the desktop
SHOUTcast Radio – Users can access one of the world’s largest radio directories; browse by genre; bookmark favorite directory listings, and view recent listening history
Persistent Player Controls– Always available controls allow users to quickly pause, change tracks, manage play queue and gracefully navigate through the application.
Widget Players & Shortcuts– Users can add playlist shortcuts along with a functional widget player to the Android home screen and also directly control playback from the lock-screen.
Now Playing– This featuredisplays song info, album art, artist bios, photos and discography. Users can press and hold on the track info to interact with other related apps installed on their phone like Pandora, YouTube and the Amazon MP3 store.
Scrobbling – WAFA supports scrobbling with the Last.fm app when both are installed, capturing users’ mobile listening history in real time.
Ongoing innovation of WAFA will include the addition of new features and upgrades over time, including Podcast support, tablet support and more.
Presser after the break. Be sure to check out WinAmp for Android here.
TeamViewer for Android has finally gotten its public beta release, we’ve learned today. It’s free to use for those of you who aren’t using it for business. If you aren’t familiar with it, TeamViewer allows you to remotely view and control your PC desktop from any supported device. (That now includes Android devices, of course.) You’ll have to head on over to their site to download it, but once you get your hands on the .apk file, you should be good to go. (Again, I apologize to all of you poor AT&T users. Let’s hope they stop crippling your phones.)
The popular remote desktop software TeamViewer is now available in beta for Android. The app will let you access remote computers with the desktop software installed right from your Android phone, and the features include:
Support your clients and colleagues spontaneously.
Access your office desktop with all of its documents and installed applications.
Remotely administer unattended computers (e.g. servers).
Free for non-commercial use: support family and friends or have remote access to your own computer.
I have used TeamViewer on the desktop before, and it’s a great little tool for remote management. You can hit up the source link below to download this for your Android device, but keep in mind that this is a beta release, so it may be a bit buggy.
Opera software has released the first beta of the upcoming Opera 11 browser.
New in Tuesday’s release is an innovative feature called “Tab Stacking,” which gives you the ability to stack and group your tabs together to better organize the pages you’re viewing.
An alpha release of Opera arrived earlier this autumn, and it gave us a taste of some other new features, like lightweight browser add-ons and some hardware acceleration features new to version 11. Those features have been refined and are included here along with the new tab tricks.
If you’d like the take the beta release for a spin head over to Opera download page.
Tab Stacking is the standout feature in this release. It is ingeniously simple and works a little bit like the way you create folders of apps on the iPhone’s home screen. You group related tabs by dragging them on top of each other. Your “stack” then collapses down into a single tab. To access the tabs in a stack, you simply mouse over the group and it expands, or you can click the arrow to the right of the grouped tab, which has the same effect.
The idea of grouping tabs is nothing new. Firefox 4 will also introduce a new interface for grouping tabs when it is finalized in a few months.
Only a slim one or two percent of the desktop browser market uses Opera daily. Still, the company is known for building innovative user interfaces into its browsers ahead of its larger, more widely-used competitors. Things like mouse gestures, or the page that shows thumbnails of your favorite sites when opening a new tab were first introduced in Opera. So it’s a change of script to see the company in the position of playing catch-up to the big names when it comes to grouping tabs and supporting lightweight add-ons.
However, Firefox 4’s current implementation (also still in beta) suddenly looks awkward and primitive next to Opera’s take on the same idea. It more elegant, and it plays on a behavior many users — those with iPhones or iPads — are already familiar with.
The best way to understand Tab Stacking is to see it in action:
Opera’s mouse gestures have been improved in this release, though there’s still not much support for gesture-based trackpads. In my testing, gestures like pinching zoomed in and out, but other options like three or four-finger swipes aren’t supported.
Also new in Opera 11 is a a visual interface that highlights mouse paths and makes it easier to understand and customize mouse gesture shortcuts. Check out Opera’s guide to mouse gestures for more details.
The beta release also sees the launch of a new website for publishing and searching Opera extensions. Thanks to Opera’s decision to base its extensions framework on the W3C Widget specification (which defines a “widget” as a downloadable and locally stored web application), it should be relatively easy to port existing Chrome and Safari extensions to Opera’s platform. So easy, in fact, that Opera reports developers are submitting between 10 and 20 new extensions each day and users have already downloaded some 500,000 add-ons.
Opera’s extensions framework also gains an automatic update system in this release, enabling add-on developers to push updates to users browsers. This means you’ll never need to worry about making sure you have the latest version of your favorite add-ons.
One thing you may not find in the new extensions store are Flash-blocking add-ons. Actually you probably will, but you don’t need them. Opera 11 can now be set to load plug-ins (like Flash or Silverlight) only on demand. Just head to the preferences menu, select the Advanced tab and then click Content. There, you’ll see a new option to only load plug-ins on demand. The feature is disabled by default.
Of course, all the new features would be less exciting if they slowed things down, but luckily they don’t. Opera hasn’t given any hard and fast numbers, but in our experience Opera 11 is faster than its predecessors and on par with Firefox 4 and Chrome 7.
Linux fans will be happy to hear that the platform has seen a bit of extra attention in this release. Opera claims that the beta is 15 to 20 percent faster on common benchmarks than Opera 10.63 for Linux.
Perhaps even more impressive, Opera 11 is actually 30 percent smaller than previous releases, saving you a bit of download time and disk space.
Other noteworthy features in the Opera beta include a revamped, simplified URL bar, which, like Google Chrome, dispenses with the “http://” bit at the front of URLs and highlights the security status of the current page. Unlike Chrome though, when you click inside the URL bar, Opera will reveal whether you’re connected using http or https.
Another trick borrowed from Google Chrome is support for Google search predictions. The feature works in both the search field and from the address bar when you start your query with the “g” shortcut.
With hardware acceleration, add-ons support and the innovative interface of Tab Stacking leading the way, Opera 11 is shaping up to be a great release both for Opera fans and those who use other browsers, which, if history is any guide, will soon be mimicking Opera’s lead.
ThickButtons have just announced that they’ve reached version 0.9 of the beta version of their application and have urged users to go ahead and download the new version. Here are but a few of the improvements and features found in version 0.9:
Typing in Spanish, German, English, French and Italian;
Voice input for FroYo users;
Smarter support of landscape mode.
I could’ve sworn English has been a supported language since the keyboard replacement was introduced, but we’re not going to grasp at straws. They’ve also published results from usability tests they’ve run. They found that users were 31% more accurate and 24% speedier when using ThickButtons compared to your traditional QWERTY keyboard.
And if we’re talking about the stock Android keyboard, then I have no hesitation in believing them. (It’s like murder for someone with hands as big as mine to type on that!) Give ThickButtons a whirl now by scanning or touching the QR code below, or by searching for “ThickButtons” in the Android market. [via A&M]
Last week, TweetDeck announced version 1.0.3 but due to a few bugs, they attached the “beta” label and made it only available online versus dropping a potential buggy release into the Android Market. For those of you who opted out of the beta release, you can now grab version 1.0.3 bug free from the Android Market and with the release brings many new features and fixes including:
Landscape mode for all update detail views
Twitpic support
Manual bit.ly shortening
Allo for dismissing Places notifications
Fix faving tweets on 3G in France
Allow old style RTs for protected users
Support FB Single Sign-on
Allow users to delete DMs that are sent to them
Likes and comments on FB photos should stay in app
Bug Fixes
TweetDeck is one of the top social clients around for Android as it brings Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare and Buzz to one location. If you haven’t tried it out yet, you should.
Scan the QR code below or simply click the image to be taken directly to the Android Market.
TweetDeck has just released a beta test for Android users and made the APK available for download. They note that this install should install right over top of your existing stable release, but of course, if there is a problem, simply remove/uninstall it and re-install the stable market version.
The Update is said to address various bugs and fixes, as well as some new features such as the following;
Landscape mode for all update detail views
Added support for Twitpic
Manual bit.ly shortening
Allow for dismissing Places notification
Fix faving tweets on 3g in France
Allow old style RTs for protected users
Support FB Single Sign On
Allow users to delete DMs that are sent to them
Likes and comments on FB photos should stay in app
TweetDeck Support also would like to mention that anyone new to installing betas on their Android devices is encouraged to download and install “tAttachApkinstaller” from the Android Market first to assist in installing the TweetDeck beta 1.0.3. If you encounter any issues, please let us know in the comments, or notify TweetDeck Support by following these instructions on forwarding log files.
Dropbox for Android beta has been updated to v1.0.1.4! If you aren’t familiar with Dropbox, it is an Android application that allows you to sync your files between your computers and your Android device for easy viewing of documents, pictures, videos, and other media while on-the-go.
Improvements noted in this update of Dropbox include:
Better error logging
If system clock is wrong, lets user know the reason for not being able to log in.
Bug and stability fixes. – Edited files were re-uploading every time their directory was browsed. (Though may still show up a single time for each file when first using the app.)
Check out DropBox for Android in TalkAndroid’s ApptlyAndroid database or download it in the Android Market.
Registered as part of the ongoing Swype beta? An update is now available for you, so jump on it. The new version brings many improvements, including Speech to Text support, double tap to edit, and continued fixes to accuracy and test input. You will have to download the update manually to your handset by visiting the Swype beta page and entering your info.
Speaking of Swype, in the wake of several top class text-entry alternatives for Android, does it still hold the favor of as many as it used to? Or have people moved on?
Many of you are familiar with Swype. Many of us love it and use it daily. What some of you don’t know is that they are constantly looking to make Swype better and have been beta testing various updates with a selected group of users. This is not the Swype you have installed on your stock or potentially rooted device.
The Beta is up to version 2.10.52.13753, which taking a look at the version I have right now on my Samsung Vibrant (2.8.50.12808), I am pretty far behind. The latest update includes:
Resolved an accuracy issue that was introduced in the last Beta update. New software features supporting additional languages were included in the beta before the test plan for those features was complete (it is a beta after all). Subsequent testing identified the accuracy issue and corrections made. These new tests have been incorporated into our regression testing to prevent future accuracy issues.
Added Double-Tap-to-Edit and Cursor Restore
Added microphone button (QWERTY only. Requires Google Voice Search be pre-integrated in your phone’s ROM)
Added French & EXPERIMENTAL Chinese Pinyin languages
Modified new word priority defaults. The word-choice-window will now be ordered more intelligently when encountering custom dictionary words
Fixed a bug where an extra space would be added when replacing a word by Swyping after opening the word choice window
Improved the “Hidden-Word” dialog handling so it doesn’t show up as often (more improvements to this next time)
Improved prediction when handling various path collisions
Lots of minor bug fixes
Thats a pretty good list of additions to an already really great keyboard. Any Beta testers out there care to comment on how the progress is going? Do you think an update will hit for the rest of the general users soon?
A new beta version of the next Firefox browser has arrived.
Mozilla released Firefox 4 Beta 7 on Wednesday. Unlike the last couple beta releases which mostly just tidied things up, this release is a substantial step forward. Most notably, it includes a new JavaScript engine called JägerMonkey that give the browser a performance boost on script-heavy sites.
It has better support for web graphics and fonts, and it has been deemed complete enough for add-on developers to begin porting over their creations from older versions of Firefox.
If you’re a beta tester already, you’ll see an automatic update today or Thursday. If you’d like to download beta 7 for Windows, Mac or Linux, you can do so from Mozilla’s beta site.
Wednesday’s release comes on the heels of the recent announcement that Firefox 4 won’t be ready until early 2011. Mozilla’s release dates have always been somewhat loose, but the last update was over a month and a half ago, and we were originally expecting the browser to arrive some time between October or January. Now, it looks like Firefox 4’s release date could stretch out as far as the second quarter of next year. It’s a blow to fans of the open source browser, especially since Firefox is seeing increased competition from Chrome, which shifted to an accelerated release schedule earlier this year, and from Internet Explorer 9, which entered a public beta phase in September.
The silver lining here is that it’s looking like Firefox 4 will be much different than 3.6, the current version, and that the update will be worth the wait. Also, the beta releases have been remarkably stable, and, with very few exceptions, are capable enough for every day use.
For the full list of what’s new, check out the release notes. Here’s what has us the most excited.
The enhancement sure to make the biggest splash is Firefox’s new JägerMonkey just-in-time JavaScript compiler. Complicated, JavaScript-heavy sites like Facebook and web apps like Gmail will be more nimble, and you should see a big speed increase on games and demos that previously only impressed those running Chrome or Safari. It’s a rewrite of the TraceMonkey code that powered previous versions of Firefox (love the naming convention, by the way) and you can read more about the change on Mozilla engineer David Mandelin’s blog.
The new Firefox release has expanded support for 3D graphics in the browser using WebGL and some more hardware acceleration (if you have the right hardware).
Something else to look forward to in this beta is more support for the OpenType, a font format that allows for richer, more “book like” typography on the web. For years, magazine designers have been moaning in their Rob Roys about the limitations of type on the web. And while super-pretty print-quality type treatments on web pages are still a ways off, OpenType is one of those technologies that’s getting us a whole lot closer. OpenType supports some really fancy stuff, like ligatures and swashes. If you’re not a type nerd, this post from John Dagget will give you a good overview of why OpenType is blowing minds and breaking hearts. Or, just visit this page and play around with the text — click on a word and start typing.
Firefox 4 beta 7 also has an Add-on API that’s stable and reliable, so Mozilla has given add-on developers the green light to start updating their add-ons to work in Firefox 4. If you were waiting to join the public beta program because of that one add-on you can’t live without, you’ll want to keep your eyes open, because now is the time the serious add-on update work begins.
Finally, Mozilla engineer Josh Aas tells us about some crazy voodoo going on in the Mac OS X version of Firefox using the operating system’s native tools.
While Opera Mobile isn’t officially dropping their Opera 10.1 application until tomorrow, apparently the folks over at Android-Life managed to find the link from Opera Mobile that unleashes a slew a new features into the browser application.
If your up for downloading this application from Opera’s servers click here for a direct link and let us know in the comments what you think of the new features which include pinch-to-zoom and hardware acceleration.
You can also scan the below QR code for a direct download of the application to your Android device. Enjoy!
After what feels like an eternity of waiting, Opera Mobile 10.1 is set to make its Android debut. According to the official site, November 9th will be the day folks get another great browser alternative in the Android Market. To get people excited, Opera is throwing a little wallpaper contest where the winner comes away with a Samsung Galaxy S handset. See ya Tuesday!
The Second Beta of Firefox 4 for Android is now available for download. It’s faster and sleeker, loads pages more quickly and of course its install size has been reduced. Looks like it’s almost ready to go live. I have already installed it and am impressed with the performance so far.
As mentioned in the video, it has also been released for the Nokia Maemo device.
This update of Firefox 4 Beta for mobile is smaller, sleeker and faster with:
a 60% smaller install size
A new theme with a fresh look and new features for tabbed browsing and link sharing
Optimizations that make it around 25% faster on the SunSpider Javascript benchmark than the stock browser on Android 2.2
In addition to important foundational improvements like more responsive pinch-zooming and clearer text rendering, there are a number of things that you may notice in this new beta.
Revised Android-inspired theme – The “theme,” or look, of Firefox on mobile has undergone an overhaul.
Reorganized awesomescreen – The browser gives you quicker access to the sites you visit often and have visited recently, while also minimizing the amount of typing you have to do. If you want to find a site you’ve seen recently (and that’s all you remember about it), your history is right at hand. And, finally, you can see the sites that you already have open on your desktop computer, via sync, right here as well.
Undo close tab – The ability to reopen an accidentally closed tab is as useful while mobile as it is on the desktop, where this feature is very popular.
You can get more details about the Firefox UI improvements from Madhava Enros, Lead UX Designer, by clicking
href="http://madhava.com/egotism/archive/005052.html" target="_blank">HERE
Mozilla is also encouraging developers to begin building add-ons for Firefox 4 Beta for mobile.
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style="text-align: left;">While Google Instant is pretty much full of WIN on your computer, Google has now officially brought a beta version to your Android device. As you can see in the screenie above, typing the first few letters of what you’re searching brings up possible matches making Google’s search engine faster.
style="text-align: left;">Check out a video from Google showing a demo of Google Instant on a mobile devices below. Enjoy!
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style="text-align: left;">If browsing with your Android device, give it a try by heading to
href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">www.google.com . Let us know in the comments what you think. Because Google is predicting your search, it works best when using a 3G or Wi-Fi network, so if you’re on EDGE you might run into some speed issues, but so far when running my T-Mobile G2 on EGDE, it’s still quite fast.
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As we wait for the Symbian^3 web browser to be released on the Nokia N8, you can try other web browsers like Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. I just received a press release that Opera Mini 5.1 was released and is written as a native Symbian app rather than a Java app so get on over to m.opera.com from you Symbian browser and download it now.
This new native Symbian version, Opera Mini 5.1, features all the same things you have seen with Opera Mini before, but with these key improvements:
Significantly faster start-up time
Improved page-load and scrolling performance, especially on older devices
Full support for device text input methods
Improved fonts
Device integration for copy & paste, email client and more
Option to choose default access point — no more annoying dialogs
I love the idea of device integration and default access point settings so I went to download it myself and now have it running on my Nokia N8.
Tip for T-Mobile USA customers: T-Mobile thought it would be cool to block access to apps they didn’t want you to use so if you go to m.opera.com with your T-Mobile SIM in the N8 you will find they won’t let you download it. Simply go into offline mode, connect via WiFi, then download Opera Mini 5.1 beta to your Nokia N8. You can then go back into online mode and use the application with no problems.
Oh yeah, here are some fast facts about Opera Mini from the press relase
The most popular mobile browser on the market
More than 71 million monthly users worldwide
More than 36.9 billion pages processed each month
The Opera Mini servers compress the webpages up to 90%
Anyone else happy with this new version of Opera Mini?
Qik is looking for T-Mobile G2 owners to assist them in developing their application to run on G2. If you have an G2 and would like to help Qik beta test for your device, you can sign up by sending an email to support@qik.com with “T-Mobile G2 Beta Test” in the subject line. (Or just click the email link)
I know, a front-facing camera on the G2 would be killer.
Into sports and looking for a great app to keep up to date on standings, scores and more? Why not check out the freshly pressed beta of the TSN Mobile app for BlackBerry. Previously only available to iPhone users, the TSN Mobile app has made the leap to the BlackBerry platform with the release of the first beta.
TSN brings all the sports information in its number one iPhone app to the Blackberry.
A beta test of the application, featuring thorough coverage of the five major leagues (NHL, CFL, NFL, MLB and NBA) was released in early October 2010. Many more sports will be added throughout the month, with a final release slated for early November.
Having tried it out on my 9700 the new app is great for all the essentials. However, installing it on my BlackBerry Torch led to some not so poitive results. I’m sure that will be corrected over time as TSN never claimed it would work on the Torch now anyways. Be sure to check it out though if you are looking for a great app to keep track of sports scores and more.
Every week countless apps land in the Android Market. It’s a bit overwhelming. Even we here at Phandroid have a hard time keeping up, but that isn’t stopping us from trying. We are unveiling what will become a weekly series of videocasts highlighting just a portion of the many apps released each week. For the week of October 17th we saw several new entries among quite a few key updates. So sit back and relax as we take a quick look at a few that stood out to us.
After a lengthy beta period, the screenshot and iSight utility Skitch has finally gone 1.0. With this release, both the app and its photo-sharing Website gained a long list of new features, including easier sharing links, cropping templates, full Website snapping, and more. A new paid option unlocks even more features and better integration with the Skitch.com site.
I told you the 
Adobe has released a public beta of Audition for Mac, its professional audio program for recording, mixing, editing, and mastering.
As we wait for the Symbian^3 web browser to be released on the Nokia N8, you can try other web browsers like Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. I just received a press release that Opera Mini 5.1 was released and is written as a native Symbian app rather than a Java app so get on over to 
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