Tweet in Carbon stilo!
For those of you who are using the Beta version, the wait is over and it’s officially #carbonwebosday. And if you’re on webOS and haven’t tried Carbon, it’s now out in the wild. Grab a copy NOW.
Here’s an intro to our new friends who haven’t been on the Beta ship with us.
This is Carbon
Carbon is the premium Twitter client for webOS devices. Carbon was initially developed because the developers behind it could not access paid apps in HP App Catalog from Dubai, what started as a need is now one of the most prominent, respected and loved Twitter clients on webOS in under six weeks of its Beta release.
Carbon maintains being a webOS app first, and a Twitter client, second. As a Twitter client it’s the Twitter client of choice for features and ease of use. Most of the app features are accessed within two taps or by just flicking the way around.
Advanced gestures such as Power Scroll and webOS-only features such as #Hashcard are some of the unique features in Carbon that were firsts for webOS and Twitter clients.
Carbon leverages webOS core features such as multi-card view and multi-instance app launches and recently with the App Catalog version of the app it makes use of “Just Type” functionalities to post new tweets & search twitter.
The UI in Carbon is as close as it gets to Native apps with accented dark and Carbonic styles. It uses default webOS UI elements to preserve the webOS experience.
Enough Talkin’
Features
Multi-Panel Home Screen: Users can switch timelines by swiping right or left in order to navigate through different timelines.
Configurable Menu: Users can choose a default user menu on home screen and choose between Trends or Lists to be shown on home screen.
Power Scroll Gesture: Jumping to the top or bottom of any timeline is as easy as swiping up or down using two fingers.
Just Type: on webOS 2.x users can use Just Type to quickly launch Carbon to either Search Twitter or Post a new Tweet.
Type to Tweet in Carbon: Users can type on any Carbon screen to start composing a tweet, reply or mentioning users.
#Hash Card: A dedicated webOS card that loads tweets with a certain hash tag or search keyword. It automatically adds the selected hash tag to composed tweets in composition screen. This is a highly useful feature for the times that users follow an event or tweet from it.
Compose Card: If configured, upon taping on New Tweet button Carbon loads a separate card for composing and posting tweets.
Account Card: Every account could be opened in a separate Card
Top-to-Bottom & Bottom-to-Top reading: Upon refreshing any timeline, users are able to configure weather they want to read from the bottom of the newly loaded tweets or start from the top so once timeline refreshes it jumps to the selected end.
Gap Detection: At any given time depending on the breaks between sessions and refreshes; timelines might skip tweets. Gap detection makes it possible to navigate and load tweets between sessions and distant refreshes so that users never miss a tweet.
Video Preview & Direct Video Playback: Tweets that include videos hosted on Youtube or YFrog could be previewed and played back directly in Carbon without opening web browser cards.
Threaded Direct Messages View: Direct Messages are grouped by conversations based on senders & recipients. The conversation view includes a quick composition field for quick replies.
Drafts: Carbon supports saving drafts. Users can save drafts for normal tweets, replies and direct messages.
Tweet I’m Replying to: If configured, users can see the tweet they reply to on the composition screen.
Read Later Services: Carbon saves directly to Instapaper & Read It Later.
My Bit.ly: Users can use their own bit.ly api key to shorten URLs using their own accounts or custom short domain names.
Quoting Tweets: Unlike old-school twitter clients Carbon makes use of the official Retweet function of Twitter and adds an option to Quote tweets in three styles. 1. “RT @name:….” 2. “(via @name)” 3. “tweet”
Share Tweets: Share via SMS or Email or even copy link to tweet for sharing in any other possible medium.
Translation: Tweets that are not in English could be translated to English on tweet screen.
Dark & Light Themes
Three Tweet Font Sizes
And many more to come as we update…
It’s offered for $2.99 so Buy it NOW!
p.s. Our homepage is about to launch with all the graphics and goodies in a bit along with our change log from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0
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- Published:
- April 16, 2011 / 1:00 pm
- Category:
- Release
- Tags:
- app catalog, launch, official
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