One of the latest additions to Gravity is the Google Reader integration. That’s right! Our favorite Twitter app for Symbian can now receive and manage updates for Google Reader. Go watch it in action.

Screenshot of Gravity with Google Reader

Your feeds can be shared on Delicious, Instapaper, Read-it-Later, or Twitter. You can also add to favorites or open the link in your web browser. Searching feeds also find all the posts that contains your entered text.

Below is a short demo of Google Reader on the Nokia N97 Mini.

I like Foursquare and I was glad it was implemented into our favorite Symbian app, Gravity. My favorite addition in latest build 6358, adds silent check-ins which I like to do when I don’t want to share certain check-ins. The update also includes bug fixes and changes in GPS handling. Janole, the developer of Gravity, kindly provided a changelog for our readers, so check it out for more details.

Foursquare via Gravity on Nokia N86 and Nokia N97 mini

Download

• Symbian^1 Devices (Nokia N97, N97 mini, 5800, etc.): http://bit.ly/6358ALL
• Symbian S60v3 FP2 (E72, E52, N86, etc.): http://bit.ly/6358FP2x

Changelog

Here are the changes for this build that Jan provided when I emailed him:

Hi Mark,

Here’s what I can remember right now:

- Foursquare: Silent Checkin (off-the-grid), Badges, History, showing Mayor indicators. Fixed: cache could have been growing rapidly – it should now limit the Foursquare cache to the last 50 or so friends.

- Accounts overview now clearly shows the account type. The account type will be inverse or highlighted if there’s anything new in the account (tweet, reply, …)

- GPS: hopefully fixed the use of the internal GPS module now. Gravity requests a network location (cellid) and a GPS (or A-GPS) location at the same time. Before it was a sequential process that apparently didn’t work on some phones.

- GPS: Tools->GPS to Clipboard will not just fetch the WLAN saved/cached location but always try to fetch the real GPS coordinate from the internal GPS (if available) and then afterwards save that real GPS position for all nearby WLANs (for future quick lookup.)

- A very, very alpha-ish support for Sina Weibo (t.sina.com.cn) – a microblog from China. It’s only available for Chinese users atm – and probably not working so well yet.

- API usage is only shown when running low and it’s then showing in the dashboard

- Fixed the search section for S60v5 – when there’s no search and only the trends and you add a search, the screen wouldn’t be resizing.

- Progress bar and error messages should only show up for the currently selected account (no more showing of timeout error for background updates of the accounts.)

- In theory, a new version of Gravity in the Info & Updates section should show up as an envelope sign like with direct messages. The info & updates section should show the real date & time for the beta & release versions now instead of all saying “x min ago.” It should also show when you’ve registered your phone

- Something nobody has found yet!? You can upload your Twitter user profile image from the image section now

- Fixed the Twitter user profile / data handling: you should see the correct number of tweets and followers and so forth now. No more jumping back and forth of those numbers.

- Fixed a bug with fetching your friends

- Fixed parsing the official retweets (hopefully)

- Fixed the JSON parser for JSON with whitespace (hopefully)

- Official retweets of official retweets will retweet the original tweet not the retweet. (Oh, that’s complicated!)

There must be more – although I’ve only had like 6 days to work on this during the last two weeks

Heh – was actually fun to write this “changelog.” I should ask for a more professional workflow in this company!

Cheers,
Ole

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@janole, the creator of the popular Gravity for Symbian, added FourSquare features on his app on Sunday. The initial implementations allow you to check-in, shout out, view venues on map, view friends’ check-ins, and even add new venues. Updates and bug fixes on Gravity come frequently, so you might even see a newer version by the time you read this.

The first version of Gravity with FourSquare is 1.30 (Build 6323) for touchscreen devices (S60v5). It was announced by Jan on Twitter and now available for testing. You can download it at http://bit.ly/6323ALL

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots from the Nokia N97 Mini

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Mobileways updated Gravity, a Twitter app on the S60, to version 1.17 on May 4th. I love this app even more now that it supports Twitter groups. If you follow a lot of people on Twitter, groups make it easier for you to organize the tweets you read. Many people like Gravity for several reasons, but this functionality makes it a must-have app for S60 Twitter power users.

Groups is one of the most demanded features for Twitter, allowing members to focus on different sets of people they’re following. For example, you could create groups for celebrities, colleagues at work, friends in real life, family members, and so on.

Twitter itself does not provide a Groups feature so users rely on third party applications to implement it. Tweetdeck is a popular desktop application because of this function and Gravity just implemented it with their latest update.

I wrote in my original review of Gravity that that it kept closing randomly while using it. I don’t see that problem anymore after several updates. You can do this directly from the application itself, which is impressive. The application costs $9.95.

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Mobileways released Gravity on Monday and I’ve been using it on the Nokia 5800. One of the most common questions I find on Twitter from people who mention Nokia, is what app to use for Twitter? Look no further because here it is. Gravity is an app you can download and install on your phone, however there are mobile sites accessible through the browser like Dabr that offer the same features. What’s the difference? Gravity looks pretty.

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Features

One thing I noticed immediately on Gravity is the scrolling. Mobileways need to give Nokia some lessons how to implement this throughout the phone because it works great! You can go down the list slowly or flick to go faster.

You can view your friends’ tweets, replies, direct messages, and favourites, follow, unfollow. All these features are also auto-updated, so no need for a refresh button.

Another useful section includes the multiple Search tabs. You can choose to follow certain keywords on Twitter.

Gravity also lets you send existing photos from the phone to TwitPic, but I recommend doing that with Shozu’s one-click instead. Nevertheless, it’s good to have that option.

The Good

A lot of people are looking for a good Twitter App and I think this is the answer. The interface looks great and it includes most if not all the features available found on a desktop app for Twitter.

The Bad

Gravity closes randomly at many times. It’s really quick to re-open the application, but it gets annoying after a while.

Leaving this application on for too long will drain your battery fast. My Nokia 5800’s battery was full in the morning, but gave me a low battery warning by 2PM. I usually see the warning at night after my typical usage.

Yay or Nay?

Let us know how Gravity is doing on your Nokia phone. Do you like it?

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