August 18, 2007 at 12:41 am · Authored by Ewan · Filed under Mobile Applications, Mobile Presence

Jaiku, one of the best mobile applications on the planet, has had a fairly compehensive update. I’m going to write a lot more about this later on.

Link: Jaikido Blog

The key updates:

- 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.

Get it on your handset at www.jaiku.com/mobile/ (you’ll need to quickly create an account if you don’t have one already).