Carbon beta bursts out to eager Twitter masses 35
Tue, 01 Feb 2011 6:34 pm EST
The folks at dots & lines have proven to be exceedingly effective in building buzz for their premier webOS app, a Twitter client called Carbon. We previewed Carbon last month and the chatter from the private beta has been building ever since. The developers even declared today to be #carbonwebosday on Twitter, leading to a slew of anxious tweets clogging this blogger’s Twitter timeline. Carbon has now been released as a public beta that adds in a slew of features not present in the private release. Now included are notifications, timed refreshes, font sizes, drafts, and more.
Apart from the panels interface, compose tweet cards, cards for different accounts, and conversation view direct messages in the older version, the new beta includes the unique feature of the “hash card.” This separate Carbon card lets you have a frequently-refreshed hashtag search open all the time. A new tweet composed from the hash card even comes autopopulated with that hashtag.
It’s the little touches that make the app, and even as a beta Carbon is just chock full of those little touches. Granted, they’re starting to make for an overwhelming preferences scene, but that’s nothing a little Music Player (Remix)-style organization couldn’t fix. The public Carbon beta is not yet available through the Palm beta feeds, so you’re not going to find it in the PreCentral App Gallery or in Preware or WebOS Quick Install, so click the source link below for the download.
Source: Carbon Beta; Via: CarbonwebOS (Twitter)
35 Comments
I love it! Carbon just replaced Tweed as my twitter client of choice!
I was wondering when someone would write it up...
I see no link...
Tap "carbon beta" in the source link. Just downloaded it myself this way. Nice!
Great stuff. That is one agonising webOS related wait over.
Kept Phnx to see where it goes, but Bad Kitty has been deleted. Love Phnx still, but Carbon is beautiful, and is full featured not simply beautiful.
What is the best way to set it up? meaning I am not sure what should be turned on or off in the options.
thanks!
Ok... So I clicked on the link which sends me to the Carbon App Page. Then what?? I tried entering my number and having it sent to my phone but nothing happens. I don't see a download link anywhere?? Help?>?
Do it on your phone.
Tried it on my phone. Just tells me "this action cannot be completed now, try again later"... Help!!
looks and works very well. Love it so far.
Slick UI and animations, smart leveraging of the webOS platform. I predict that this will fast become one of my most used/liked apps on webOS 1.4.5.
Cannot get it via the txt msg link or directly to my phone :-(
I'm having the same issue. Anyone wanna help??
I had the same issue. I ended up going to the Twitter page for Carbon and used the link they provided in their feed and it worked just fine.
Tried the twitter link. Still no luck. Maybe it's personal haha. Anybody else have advice please?
Reboot and try again?
Mhmm is it prehaps US only app or something? I am getting the this action cannot be completed now, try again late when I tap from here its not coming up on the beta feed in app scoop or preware:S
Hey guys, it's not US-only, we just submitted an update and that has caused a little delay on being it published again. Give it sometime it'll be back and ready to download. Meanwhile, we'll be in touch with Palm Dev Portal to know what's the issue.
It says:
"click the source link below"
Then the comments imedeatly start.
M.
"Source:Carbon-Beta"... Take one more look. I finally got it to work! Love IT!!
Ditto
"This action could not be completed"
I like it, but I think I still like phnx better. More elegant, smooth, and compact. Still have Tweed installed, but haven't used it since phnx. Doubt I will, now. Between Carbon and phnx, why would I need it?
My problem is that I can't turn *off* notifications. (Yes, I found the preference setting.) I expect that'll get fixed quickly. Otherwise, very nice.
Same problem here. And the sound with the notifications sounds like someone is throwing rocks at my window!
Overall though, I like the look and feel. Great work.
Carbon is full featured and nice(translation doesn`t work). Phnx is fast and beautyful. But for now I will stick with Bad Kitty!
Pretty much the same for me. There aren't any features on Carbon that I would use enough to switch from Bad Kitty. I def. see the appeal for twitter "power users" though.
Got it installed. The only thing it has over Spaz is start up time. Spaz takes forever, this is pretty fast. Carbon wastes a lot of screen space. Spaz has four full tweets on the screen and with the same font size, Carbon shows a smidge over three beause of all the dead space inbtween each tweet.
Nice app, but still needs some Look 'N' Feel love.
Also, what's wrong with the Prefferences scene? T's not long and is well laid out. The last thing it needs is a MP(R) "several things jammed into a tiny space with buttons that look WAY out of place" type of prefferences.
M.
My eyes are still good, and putting the text on small gives me 5 or 6 tweets on screen. The features are EXCELLENT, but I still like the look and feel of phnx better. However, so long TweetMe(tear...) and we'll see about dumping Bad Kitty.
Any way to get local tweets?
Great twitter client. Smooth and full featured. Can't wait for the light theme that the dev said would come. However, phnx is still great. When it gets just as many features I think I'm going to drop every oher twitter app.
Competition is good. I've bought & used all webOS twitter apps, they all have their highs & some lows. This is pretty much full featured out the gate. Hard pressed to find what could be added to full release. I'm diggin phnx as well. Keep the webOS apps coming!!
So many good Twitter clients to choose from. I got Tweed, TweetMe, Phnx, Carbon and of course BadKitty installed but BadKitty is still my favourite.
What I'm missing in Carbon is a gesture to refresh. I already got used to doing the forward swipe to refresh :-/ Furthermore, I think the black is a little bit too dominant, I really prefer a light grey. Nevertheless Carbon looks really really good.
Awesome app.....all due respect to phnx (which I love)...but Carbon's beta is more polished. Both of these apps make Bad Kitty look like a....well a Bad Appy.
....ok...ok Bad Kitty is still one helluva Twitter client...I was just being funny....or not funny...whatevah!
FINALLY got it installed, and after playing with it for a little while, I think for now I prefer Phnx and Bad Kitty. All Phnx needs is notifications, and it's my favorite over Bad Kitty.