mobileways.de is proud to announce the first alpha version of Gravity 1.5 with a broad number of new features, bug fixes and a completely renewed Facebook section.

Gravity’s gorgeous fullscreen User Interface has been further improved and is now available for all Symbian platforms: Symbian^3, S60v5 and S60v3.

Gravity comes with its own beautifully designed virtual keyboard for touchscreen based phones. Of course, the keyboard is also compatible with portrait mode.

A lot of work has been spent on polishing the user interface. If you look closely at Gravity’s new UI, you will see round edges, engraved buttons and shadows for a three-dimensional look & feel and of course semi-transparent controls wherever they enhance the user experience.

The Facebook section of Gravity has been rewritten and it supports Messages, Notifications, Viewing of Users’ Wall Posts, Posting to a User’s Wall and features a new Post & Comments View.

Gravity 1.50 is available as an alpha test version from the following link:

http://mobileways.de/latest/gravity-alpha.sisx

RELEASE NOTES for Gravity 1.5 Build 6685

Twitter

• Your own tweets that have been retweeted are shown in the “My Tweets” tab
• The “In-Reply-To” button will show all retweets of your (retweeted) Tweet
• Browse all your own Favourites by scrolling down (automatically loading more)
• Browse all User Tweets (from a user’s profile) by scrolling down
• Tweets sent in offline mode will be shown in the drafts section now

Facebook

• Support for Messages and Notifications has been added
• Posts now show the picture and additional description text
• Browse a user’s Wall and post to the Wall
• Read up to 30 most recent comments in a special Post & Comment view

Virtual Keyboard

• Virtual Keyboard for Symbian^3 & S60v5 in both portrait and landscape mode
• Landscape mode virtual keyboard finally has Close & Send keys
• Key button popups are rendering correctly on the left and right sides of the keyboard
• A special Edit key opens the phone’s default editor
• The keyboard supports English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese Layout

Miscellaneous

• The new S^3 fullscreen mode is now available for S60v5 as well
• A new notification icon (exclamation mark) shows failed/scheduled tweets
• Auto-More: List automatically loads and displays tweets from Cache
• Preview of pictures supports Instagr.am now
• Google Reader now synchronizes read/unread posts on startup
• Twitter/Facebook buttons have been added to the new keyboard for Foursquare
• “Check-in here” added to the Foursquare history tab

Bug Fixes

• Google Reader: a very old crashing Bug has been fixed (USER 130)
• UI Layout crashing bug fixed (KERN-EXEC 3)
• JSON Parser has been fixed for Twitter (”change of your identity” Bug & RT Bug)
• Background Power-Safe mode was broken and has been fixed