Jaiku brings conversations to mobile - Our new S60 client is now available for download
August 17th, 2007
You’ve heard us talking about it, possibly even had one of our lovely beta testers telling you how great it’s going to be; now it’s out in the wild, and ready for you to download.
The main push of this release is to let you bring the rich conversation you’ve been enjoying on our website with you out into the world on your S60 mobile, and man, has it done that. Our beta users have been saying things like “I almost never bother with the website these days” (but don’t tell our web-dev team that) and “One of the most polished S60 apps I’ve seen.”.
Other new features include:
- The choice between longer battery life or more up-to-date presence (a much requested feature).
- Reading and writing comments from and to your contacts.
- Go back in time! Using the ’stream view’ for your contacts, you can see what they were doing and saying in the past, not just their most recent post.
- More than just Jaikus! You can also see when your contacts have posted to flickr.
- Improved presence view, to make the most of your screen real-estate.
- A whole raft of usability improvements, based on what our users have been telling us they need, including an even easier to use interface, and a progress meter, so you can see what’s happening.
- More optimal data transfer and connection maintenance, giving you more bang for your wireless data dollar.
- …and all the essential (but not that interesting) stuff like bug fixes, speed improvements, that sort of thing.
- Oh, and let’s not forget - a spiffy new manual for this client.
 Phonebook |
 Status |
 Conversation |
It’s hard to explain just how much of an improvement this version is over the previous release - you’ll have to install it for yourself to really find out!
Of course, all your favourite features from the previous release are still there as well:
- The live contact list works just like your phone’s built-in phonebook, and enhances the list with the buddy icons and real-time presence of your Jaiku contacts
- Post new Jaikus and have them immediately appear on the Web and your contacts’; phones
- Share your availability based on your phone’s ring profile
- Share your location based on free naming of cell towers
- Option to share your phone calendar (choose to share full titles of events or just when you are free/busy)
- Option to share number of nearby people based on detection of Bluetooth phones
- Switch Jaiku online or offline at any time
- Easy wizard guides you through the setup
- Automatic roaming detection alerts you when you are roaming away from your home network
If you’d like to know even more about our new client, there’s a video review of an earlier beta by Jonathan Greene, as well as a comprehensive 3 part review by Ken Camp (part 1, part 2, part 3).
Now, if you’re not lucky enough to have an S60 phone, of course you can still join in on the mobile Jaiku fun.
Firstly, there’s our Mobile Site - http://m.jaiku.com/ - I’m told it works great for you lucky folk with iPhones!
There’s also the Jaiku Widget, which will run on most modern phones (as long as they’ve got Java support).
All the time, the wonderful development community that’s grown around Jaiku is creating new and interesting applications. Don’t forget to check some of them out at Jaikufans.com.
Ken Camp Says:
This is really a comment for the entire Jaiku team. First, thank you for letting me help convince you to let me, and other bloggers see the beta work you were doing. Thanks for letting me be the first to show off your work. And thanks for letting us all be part of the beta testing.
And congratulations on a great piece of work. With this public release, Jaiku opens the door to what mobile apps for presences and social networking can become. Great work.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
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August 18th, 2007 at 12:57 am
szdavid Says:
Hello,
very nice app.
I only have one question : does the “better battery life mode” also save some data amount transferred, as it uses the network as soon as another app is used, for example ?
Thanks
David
August 18th, 2007 at 9:21 am
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August 18th, 2007 at 10:00 am
The Doctor Says:
Does this version support WiFi?
August 18th, 2007 at 10:13 am
szdavid Says:
No, it does not :(
August 18th, 2007 at 11:29 am
path Says:
yay.. now you just have to make it for a phone someone has :)
August 18th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
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August 18th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
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August 18th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Jyri Says:
@The Doctor: We’re working on Wi-Fi support, the plan is to add it to the next release.
August 19th, 2007 at 1:27 am
Jyri Says:
@path here are some figures from Symbian: http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20068610.html
August 19th, 2007 at 1:31 am
Zach Says:
Yeah that’s kind of a silly comment considering Symbian has the largest percentage of the smart-OS global market share by a large margin…
At any rate, congrats Jaiku! You guys are a great team and provided one of the most responsive beta programs that I’ve been a part of. The future is bright for Jaiku!
August 19th, 2007 at 1:58 am
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August 19th, 2007 at 2:05 am
David SMith Says:
Hmmm, just installed me this on my N73 and I can see the J icon beneath the cell signal but when I go to launch Jaiku it blank screens for a time and then reverts back to the standby screen ?
Any ideas ?
I’m in a kinda gsm signal area at the moment, no 3g/umts will that have an impact on the program launch ?
Ta
Dave
August 19th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Alan Says:
Hmm, it still seems to not associate the region/city with the cell towers, just the neighbourhood… Is this a feature or a bug?
When I’m at home I want it to be: Barloan, Dumbarton, UK, then when I go to Glasgow: City Centre, Glasgow, UK. But for some reason I go to Glasgow (15 miles away, so not like it’s the same towers or anything) it says City Centre, Dumbarton, UK so I have to manually change it. I gave up before and just made it “Scotland” so it was always right, even if it wasn’t even vaguely accurate… ;)
August 19th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Janne Granström Says:
where is channel support? where is better nearby support.. where is…….?
August 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
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August 20th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
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August 22nd, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Duarte Says:
Is this really only for the S60? I have a Sony Ericsson P990i and I would love to use the client with it. And if you guys are working on the wifi support, that would be even sweeter! :-)
August 27th, 2007 at 10:11 am
davidlian Says:
Yes! Finally! I’ve been thinking of choosing between Jaiku and Twitter for a long time, but the catch is I’m always on the move and the one thing I needed to ensure was that it’ll work with my Nokia mobile device.
I tried setting up Twitter first using the proprietary IM tool in Nokia mobile devices and couldn’t get it to work properly. So I gave up.
This app really is icing on the cake, now if only Twitter would come out with something similar for S60, then we’d have a competiiton.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
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August 30th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
MaXeR Says:
were is the WiFi connection support?
we unable to use jaiku application by WiFi connect on N95 , N80 etc !
September 12th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Daniel Appelquist Says:
Hi there — Kai Hendry suggested on my blog (see link) that you allow a way to share location landmarks. Any comments? How about suggesting a number of possible locations to users when they enter an un-identified zone, based on other users’ previous entries? I really think the location-aware aspect of Jaiku is its big differentiator. Great work!
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Cameron Says:
Agree with Duarte - would love to have it on my P990i.
September 28th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
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