ÜberTwitter, arguably one of the slickest new BlackBerry Twitter clients has just been upgraded to Beta-2, and, man did they fix a lot of bugs and add ton of new features to it.

ÜberTwitter Beta-2 features and bug fixes include:

  • Full tweet shown in timeline, rows are variable in size
  • Two notification profiles, one for new tweets and another for replies
  • Full support for viewing direct messages to you and from you
  • View your list of friends and all of their details
  • View your list of followers and all of their details
  • View another users list of friends and all of their details
  • View another users list of followers and all of their details
  • View when a user joined twitter
  • Added ‘Follow’ to context menu when clicking on @screenname from within any application on your BlackBerry
  • Added a free-form search screen, allowing users access to the full power of Twitter Search
  • We now support the built-in GPS as an option
  • Added an option to not show confirmation dialog after every tweet
  • Added options to control the number of tweets initially retrieved and how many to maintain in your timeline
  • Added options to control the number of avatar images cached
  • Added shortcuts – U – update, R- Reply, T- Top, B – Bottom, Space – Pg Dn, Shift-Space – Pg Up, F – Follow, P – refresh, L – ReTweet, S – Search
  • Add thumbnails of pics attached to tweets in the timeline, either from twitpic, or from UberTwitter
  • Add larger pics attached to tweets in the full tweet view, supports twitpic, or from UberTwitter
  • ‘Mentions’ are now automatically merged into your timeline view
  • Mark a tweet as a Favorite
  • Remove favorite from a tweet
  • View tweets you have marked as favorites
  • View another users favorites
  • View your timeline
  • We now support WiFi if its available
  • Support for ScrollWheel devices (87xx)
  • More options for automatic refresh, including a manual mode
  • Increased screen name field size on Options screen
  • Increase GTalk user field size on Options screen
  • Some decrease in battery usage, but we have more work to do here
  • Bug fix – Fonts not resetting on change
  • Bug fix – Line feeds in tweets were causing an ArrayOutOfBounds Exception
  • Bug fix – Icon cache would grow FOREVER! (memory leak)
  • Bug fix – Race condition would cause lockup on starting UberTwitter

UberTwitter is a free BlackBerry application and you can download it by pointing your BlackBerry Browser to http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php.

Be sure to leave feedback as there will be an UberTwitter Beta 3.

[Via UberTwitter]