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Hands On with UberTwitter 2.1 for BlackBerry

18.05.09

UberTwitter 2.1 is one of a growing number of mobile Twitter apps built for the BlackBerry platform. I decided to try it out after a number of fellow Tweeters recommended it. TwitterBerry was a very close second on their list of recommendations.

You can access UberTwitter directly from your BlackBerry's built-in browser. In this case, I'm using a Blackberry 8310. The built in browser is fast and relatively effective and the download on my Edge connection took less than minute. Installation was almost instantaneous. BlackBerry seems to have its own form of UAC control and popped up a warning that UberTwitter wanted to change some settings in my phone; most seemed to be about it accessing native features of the device. There was no option for saying OK, so I hit the BlackBerry menu button and then saved the changes. That seemed to do the trick.

Set-up is straightforward. You enter your Twitter name and password and then answer a few set-up questions. UberTwitter has the ability to show your location on every Tweet and for all photos you post. It does so using cell-phone tower triangulation or, if you let it, via the phone's built-in GPS radio. I don't need everyone to know where I am at every single moment. So I opted out.

Source: PC Magazine