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If Tumblr isn’t your cup of tea, WordPress 1.1 for BlackBerry has been released, with a batch of spiffy new features, like tagging your GPS location in each post, gestures for the Storm for sifting through comments. Here’s the full list of updates:
- Comment Notifications
- Geotagging of Posts
- Improved UI interaction on Touch devices
- introduction of Touch Gestures:
Sliding a finger to the left or right quickly on the Comment screen displays the next or
previous comment. - Photo Resizing improvements with user defined dimensions
- New File Browser with thumbnails support
- Overall enhancements to the speed and stability of the app
- Language support for
- English
- Italian
- Finnish
- French
- Indonesian
- German
- Portuguese (Portugal)
I’ve been using WordPress for BlackBerry every once in awhile to tweak my posts here on IntoMobile, but lately it’s been having trouble connecting – maybe it’s something on our end, but it’s still frustrating. The one thing that’s still missing is some semblance of a WYSIWYG editor; it’s a pain chewing through blocks of pure HTML, even with the link assistant. I’m a bit surprised that WordPress didn’t implement the new Push APIs to get notified of new comments awaiting moderation immediately, but it’s still cool to get any notifications at all.
For more info on WordPress for BlackBerry, hit up their blo
About The Author
Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
