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BBTran 1.6 Beta available!

Monday, March 16 2009

 Hello dear BBTran users.  I'm glad to announce BBTran v 1.6 beta available for public test.  I still have to do some bugs fixing and add Pro version restrictions (the beta has all the client features).  And it would be great to get more feedback on new features to be sure that final 1.6 has those features in way you need them .

Update: BBTran 1.6 was released, use OTA now to install.

• First of all entire communication stack was recreated using JSON+GZIP instead of XML SOAP messages. This means that traffic usage is extremely low in this version as well as transmission time. Service sync still has a delay now but it is related to gzip uncompression of large data. So don't worry.
• Since I got a lot of feedback requests regarding connection problems - v 1.6 has now wizard that detects available data transports on BB. It runs on first startup or can be run manually in Menu->Settings->Auto Configuration.
• Start screen was removed so that now you get into translation screen without a delay! Though there is a status bar saying "Connecting to server" and BBTran probes on background if server is available. But you already can type the text. Once it get server response it says "Connected to Server". Now you can hit "Translate".
• I've got several requests to add some theme configuration to be able to adopt BBTran to device's color scheme. Here it is! UI was enhanced and color scheme customization added for backgrounds, labels, font colors and label overlay patterns:

• As you can see on first screenshot - there is a Blackberry Messaging (Email/SMS/PIN) Integration added to BBTran. It works in both directions. Being in translated text box you'll have 3 new menu items: "Email/PIN/SMS the Translation". They will open new message in blackberry containing translated text. And also being in messaging application on selected Email/PIN/Message you'll see a new menu item "Translae with BBTran". It will open BBTran and copy message subject/text to Source text box. (Currently it does not do translation by deault giving you a chance to chnage translation settings before, but I'm looking forward for your feedback if there is a reason to add "default" translation direction for this feature.)

 Ok, that's all for now. There are some other new things in this version but I'll try to cover them later.  Please provide some feetback at least on these features ;)   Good luck in testing,  Sergey.