TweetDeck beta updated again – now with widgets

Widgets! The easy way to smash your Android phone’s battery to OBLIVION. That’s the headline new feature of the latest update to the Android beta version of TweetDeck, which now calls itself v0.9.8. That’s looking perilously close to a full 1.0 official non-beta release.

Here’s a tidy bullet-pointed list of the new changes made to Android TweetDeck, courtesy of the TweetDeck support site:

- New “Quick post” widget
- New “Column” widget
- New “Quick launch bar” widget
- All new Add Column interface
- Fixed various bugs and improved performance

And here’s a few of screenshots of the new widgets in action.

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The quick post widget pops up a curiously tiny text window on the screen of our HTC Desire making it rather hard to read your own messages, but does at least work. That’s the TweetDeck column widget on the right.

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The quick launch bar is the weird thing (top left) that’s simply three shortcuts to your timeline, replies and DMs. Looks rather bland, but will be better on the battery. TweetDeck’s getting better by the day. If only they would reinstate the bouncy timeline effect.

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