New Kinoma Play update: Twitter location, location, location (and more!)
Wow, last week was a whirlwind!
Not only did we introduce support for a new mobile platform with the release of Kinoma Play for Symbian/S60, but we also released a very nice update for all of our Windows Mobile customers as well.
Here’s what’s new and improved…
Kinoma Play’s Twitter app is now location aware. A new Set Location command in the Profile tab lets you enter a location, or use your phone’s GPS to choose your location from a list. A list of recent locations makes it super-quick to update your location.
Plus, a new Nearby search (GPS required) shows you nearby news, views and gossip. Who needs a watercooler when you’ve got Kinoma Play?
Plus:
- If a message contains links to a YouTube video or Flickr image, Kinoma Play now opens them directly in its YouTube and Flickr apps rather than launching a web browser. It’s much faster, and (unlike a web browser) always works.
- The Twitter app now shows the source (web, Kinoma Play, API, etc.) of individual tweets.
Start
Start now has separate tabs for Applications and Settings, making it easier to find and launch both.
Other fixes and improvements
- Flights time zone conversions are now more reliable.
- Although Kinoma Play is incredibly compact and efficient — only 7 MB of RAM, compare to iTunes’ 125 MB on Windows! — we still add optimizations to nearly every release. For this release, we focused on improved behavior in low memory situations.
- We hired a thousand monkeys to stomp on a thousand phones running Kinoma Play for a thousand hours, to see if random and unexpected input could crash it. We found that a few especially-clever monkeys could crash Kinoma Play this way, so we added safeguards to prevent that.
- Okay, that last item includes a small exaggeration.Instead of using monkeys, we actually used a selection of low-level testing utilities. But we really did add the safeguards.
- Thumbnails now appear faster and look a little better. (Yes, both speed and quality are improved. )
What do you think?
We love to hear from customers, and you can always find us and fellow customers in our forum. Enjoy!
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