Warm up your Twitter fingers, the latest Nokia Messaging for social networks beta has now added support for Twitter, making tweeting even more convenient from the homescreen of your Nokia handset.
Update February 2010!
S40 support, bug fixes to improve client performance, and minor feature enhancements:
- Facebook – Upload photos to selected album
- Facebook – Timestamp improvement
- Twitter – Direct message
- Twitter – Post with Location
- Twitter – View profile of people you are following and posted tweets
- Twitter – View own profile and posted tweets
- Twitter – Mark as Favorite
Back in September 2009, we introduced the first iteration of the social networking beta that let people view, post, and comment on messages, share their location and status while keeping up with their Facebook friends right from their Nokia handsets. This was only the start. The majority of the feedback given by beta testers was to add support for other social networking communities (Twitter, done! More to come!) Testers also asked for enhancements to the Facebook functionality. We took your advice and have added these new features:
- Upload pictures and videos
- Events: View upcoming events, birthdays and import to device calendar
- Search friends
- Click-to-call / click-to-SMS / click-to-FB Email
We invite you to download and test-drive this social networking client from Nokia Beta Labs. We also invite you to visit http://messaging.nokia.com to see what’s available for your device from Nokia Messaging.
Key features
- Contextual homescreen widget – jump directly to your Facebook and Twitter posts and tweets to comment.
- Live Facebook and Twitter updates pushed to your phone homescreen
- Update your status on Twitter
- View / reply to your Tweets
- Communication choices – multiple ways to interact with your friends and social network circles straight from the client (e.g. post a comment, call, SMS, or email)
- Share your current location and your points of interest in a post or in a message leveraging device GPS location and Ovi Maps (e.g. view friends’ location, add your location)
- Multi pictures uploads
- Video uploads
- Search
- Full profile support
- Save Facebook invites to phone calendar
- Events: View upcoming events, birthdays
Compatibility and system requirements
The Nokia Messaging for Social Networks Beta is compatible with the Nokia 6700 Classic, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5530, Nokia 5800, and the Nokia X6 devices and performs much better if you are running the latest firmware on your device. We are working to add support for more devices and more communities in the future. Keep following BetaLabs for updates.
Feedback
Please use the discussion links on the right side of the page for reporting bugs or making suggestions.
After spending some time with the client, please tell us about your experience.
