After a slightly embarrassing false start yesterday, the Android version of popular Twitter client TweetDeck has finally appeared for its promised public beta test.
Being a beta, the app is NOT available for download on the Android Market – you’ll have to head over to TweetDeck’s site and register for it, signing in via an existing (or hurriedly created) TweetDeck account and downloading the Android APK file.
Here’s a bit of TweetDeck’s announcement covering why it thinks it’s so DAMN CLEVER:
“The concept of blended columns is something new and different, but we feel that it is the way forward. Why should you have to scan across multiple columns to find out what your friends are doing? Bringing all your Twitter, Facebook, Buzz and Foursquare feeds into the same column allows you to focus more on what your friends are saying and less on where they are saying it.”
And then you’ll get to have a go on this.
Looks pretty swish. We’ll spend a bit of time with it this evening, hopefully, if we can get the wife off bloody Scramble Touch for long enough.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
penhapus
/ August 13, 2010How’s everyone finding it? It’s swish, but worried about volume of data it’s using, and the battery-raping aspects…
saintscomemarching
/ August 13, 2010Looks interesting, but the font size is far tool large… can only see about 3 tweets per screen on my Desire. Tried to find an options screen to change this, but the only thing you seem to be able to do is modify the notifications.
Also, by combining Twitter and Facebook feeds into a single feed, is this actually any different to HTC’s FriendStream?
saintscomemarching
/ August 13, 2010Obviously I meant to write “far too large”… damn keyboard!!
Sebi Protagonist
/ August 13, 2010Looks nice and most things work very intuitive. But the app crashes everytime I try to add a Foursquare account or switch to the third column (btw. what is in that column?) on my HTC Desire. Does anyone else have this problem?
Jane
/ August 15, 2010Sebi: I have the same problem with my HTC Hero. Impossible to add FS-account