ÜberTwitter Beta 3 Getting Released Tomorrow!!!

* UPDATE ÜberTwitter Beta 3 is now available for download! Download link below… *

ÜberTwitter let me know that they are preparing to release Beta 3 of their Twitter application for BlackBerry tomorrow NOW!

This release deepens support for Twitter features and takes further advantage of the capablities available in your BlackBerry device.

ÜberTwitter supports BlackBerry devices running OS 4.2.1, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7. You can download the current version OTA here or visit ÜberTwitter.com for more info.

Check out the full changelog after the jump. It’s a bit lengthy.

• Cleaned up and modernized the user interface. The timline interface, tweet update, and tweet view screens have changed substantially, please see the screenshots above.
• DONE! Greatly reduced battery drain!
• DONE! Ability to delete one of your tweets
• DONE! If you are using the internal GPS, we added an icon in the title bar showing if you have a GPS lock (blue icon) or not (gray icon). Note that UberTwitter will now properly fall back to using cell towers for location if you don’t have a GPS lock.
• DONE! The ability to follow a thread of replies. Once we added this we kicked ourselves for not having it earlier, it is SO useful! On one of the screen shots above you’ll see the ‘in reply to’ button on the view tweet screen.
• DONE! Merge of both @Replies/Mentions as well as Direct Messages into your timeline
• DONE! Integrated BlackBerry Maps Google Maps when viewing a Tweet, works just like the myloc.me web site. This will view the location of the tweet if it includes a ‘myloc.me’ or ‘mypic.me’ or ‘myvid.me’ URL, OR will use the location in the profile if it includes a latitude/longitude pair. This includes support for the iphone twitter clients which routinely put the geolocation in the Twitter profile location field! Click on the screenshot below for a detailed view. We backtracked on using BlackBerry Maps due to the lack of universal support on all devices/carriers.
• DONE! When viewing a tweet which contains a latitude/longitude pair in the location field we will now provide the ‘human readable’ address of that location, also works for iPhone geolocations in the Twitter profile location field.
• In order to keep ÜberTwitter free we are adding advertisements to the timelines, these will appear randomly in the timelines, please support our advertisers so we can continue to develop and distribute ÜberTwitter free of charge. Ads won’t make this release. Note that for the final release we will have a paid version available with no advertising.
• DONE! Fixed the search screen to make ’search’ the default menu item and make the ‘enter’ key start the search.
• DONE! Support for the shrinking your tweet through an integration with TweetShrink.com. This will be an option when composing your tweet.
• Option for automatic URL shortening.
• DONE! Added a ‘Copy Tweet’ menu item so you can copy/paste entire tweets into other BlackBerry applications
• DONE! Timeline scrolling is MUCH snappier!
• DONE! When viewing a DM, the only reply option is with another DM
• DONE! Added touch screen gestures for the Storm to go to the top and bottom of the timeline.
• DONE! Fixed bug where the selected tweet in a timeline was basically ‘random’ when the timeline was updated. The currently selected tweet will now remain selected after adding tweets to the timeline.
• DONE! At the bottom of all timelines there is a row that says ‘Load More’ which will retrieve older tweets for that timeline.
• DONE! Fixed bug where the location being reported was ’stuck’ to a previous location.
• DONE! Touch screen gesture support swipe ‘east’ will now put you at the top of the list, while a swipe ‘west’ will send you to the bottom. Note that we did not use swipe north/south as we are planning to use these gestures in the future to support ‘flick’ scrolling.
• Added a Terms and Conditions screen to the setup configuration.
• DONE! Resolved bug where the small gray time of tweet text would sometimes overwrite the other text in a tweet.
• DONE! Added support for tweets that contain Moby Pictures (mobypicture.com)
• DONE! Fixed bug where selecting ReTweet from timeline menu makes the tweet a reply, so not everyone could see it.
• FIXED! Escaping from writing a tweet gives a misleading prompt to save or discard the tweet. Selecting save actually exits without saving the message anywhere.