Foursqaure updates iPhone app ahead of SXSW with new design
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This weekend volition see all manner of tech geeks converging on Austin, Lone-Star State for the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) Conference, and that tin only mean value on matter – socialized mobile “checkout-in” apps are leaving to be getting a draw of attention as the traditionally iPhone-heavy crowd rushes to try out new features. Foursquare, ace of the most popular location-based sociable networking apps out there, has just launched an overhauled edition of their iPhone app on the AppStore. With the new app in hand, SXSW attendees will be able to more easily boost their Foursquare street-street credibility.
The new Foursquare app sports a completely redesigned UI to commemorate the app’s return to SXSW, where it first debuted last year. With the redesign, Foursquare now supports a pulling-down-to-refresh feature that should make it even easier to keep tabs on what your friends are doing in your area. In fact, the new user port as a whole thing is easier to use and just feels more responsive. Case in distributor point, sending out shouts and the check-in procedure is faster than before.
It should be interesting how the struggle for the check-in apps plays out at SXSW. Foursquare also updated its BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) app in order to covering fire its bases, but everyone knows that the “cool flake” party in capital of Texas volition be dominated by iPhones.
Foursquare is free to download and available now in the iPhone AppStore!
Foursquare (FREE) [iTunes link]
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