ÜberTwitter Beta-9 has been Released

ÜberTwitter, one of the first (and only) decent Twitter apps for the BlackBerry before Twitter for BlackBerry arrived, has just released a new version of their beta; Beta-9 (or beta 0.99). I use ÜberTwitter from time to time, but ever since Twitter for BlackBerry was released, their download rate has decreased big time. I have tested this beta out, and I have to say that it’s much, much better than Beta-8. The changes are pretty minor when it comes to bug fixes and a few new tiny little features, but as to its appearance it’s given a big leap. ÜberTwitter used to have a few ‘themes’ that were actually just changes in color, but they were ugly. Really ugly. But with this new beta (I wonder when they will drop the ‘beta’?) the themes were much more thought on and are very much attractive. The best part is that they’re BRIGHTER, and they added two new themes – Midnight, which is kind of dark but appealing at the same time, and Über Classic theme, which brings back the style of the first betas (which I was a part of, too.) Finally, they included Native OS 6.0 build! Thank you! Here’s a full list of the features -

Bug Fix – Fixed a bug where the menu key would become unresponsive and occasionally the device would lock up. This same bug likely was causing excessive battery usage over time.

New Themes – You asked and we delivered two new themes! The Midnight theme which we think many of you will find extremely appealing, and the Über Classic theme which brings back many of the color choices of version 0.971 including the same solid colors for @replies and DMs

Filtered ÜberChannels – You loved ÜberChannels, but now we think you’ll love it even more! When you pull up the timeline for an ÜberChannel the tweets are now filtered so that you will only see on-topic tweets. Not seeing all of the extraneous tweets, especially on a mobile device, should make the ÜberChannel experience much better!

Brighter Themes – Listening to your feedback we have reworked the colors in all of the existing themes to make the brighter and more vibrant.

Notification Flowers – Everyone liked the uniqueness of the notification ‘flowers’ on the main icon when you had a new tweet/@reply or DM, we made them even better by including a red and white star in the middle to make them stand out.

TweetPhoto is now Plixi – We have converted it all over to use the new Plixi logo and wording.

Photo Upload Bug – Fixed a bug in photo uploads which could occur if you had multiple accounts configured on your device.

Highlight Bars – The highlight bar is now more appropriate for each theme, and we also made the highlight bar flow behind the tweets in the ‘bubble’ layout, like it did in previous versions.

Icon Notifications – Fixed bug where icon notifications were not cleared when ÜberTwitter stopped running.

Sound Notifications – Fixed bug where an @reply sound notification would not sound if there was also a regular tweet notification.

Hashtag Picker – You can now turn off the hashtag picker under ‘options’ from the menu.

Late @replies – Fixed bug where if you received an @reply and saw the notification on the uber bar and then went to your @replies, you couldn’t find any new ones there.

Native 6.0 Build – There is now a native build for BlackBerry OS version 6.0

Photo/Video Picker – We now use the native Photo/Video file picker on BlackBerry OS version 6.0.

What are your thoughts? Do you still use ÜberTwitter, or do you use Twitter for BlackBerry? Let us know in the comments below!

Download Beta-9 here: http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php