8 July 2009
- Added a new Close (X) icon in Quick Compose and Quick Reply, such that the [Call] option is now a permanent button.
- The [Call] feature is now back in Quick Compose and Quick Reply.
- You can now add smileys in Quick Compose and Quick Reply.
- If typing a free format number in the Quick Compose “To:” field, you can now press the [Call] button without needing to press return first.
- Quick Compose can now be called from most places, with or without headphones on, as long as the volume HUD appears (sometimes volume HUD does not show the Quick Compose text, but you can still press it). Also if a slider volume control appears, say directly in the iPod “Now Playing” tab, you still cannot call QC (you need to navigate to a screen where the volume HUD is shown).
- In Quick Compose and Quick Reply, pressing the Home hardware button now closes the QC or QR window.
- Added a Favorites icon in Quick Compose, to make it easier and quicker to locate your favorite contacts.
- Quick Reply now works when opening from the lock-screen regardless of the time it takes you to unlock (intentionally only for a single pending message).
- Quick Compose and Quick Reply now “carry across” any entered text if the [Open] button is used to start biteSMS.
- Double tap (or long-hold) a message bubble now displays the exact timestamp of that message.
- Added URL handling into biteSMS, such that pressing “Text Message” from inside applications such as Contacts, ABContacts, Groups etc (also phone number links) now calls biteSMS correctly with appropriate recipient numbers passed across.
- When pressing the pink send button, and it’s an MMS (so Group MMS as well), you’ll be asked if you wish to send it via your carrier (so you don’t need to manually change the send button from pink to blue).
- Added missing image file, such that the iPhone search feature (spotlight) now displays an appropriate sized biteSMS icon.
- Updated a number of language translations and added support for the Russian language.
- Quick Switch setting now honored in Quick Compose and Quick Reply, and the default is ON if you already have credits.
- Made the credits counter (e.g. 320 credits) now appear in the text field, instead of the scroll region.
- Fixed issue, whereby (only sometimes) a smiley could cause a bubble to truncate the displayed text.
- Fixed issue, whereby a long text would cause the Quick Reply window to overlap the keyboard.
- Fixed issue, whereby in Landscape mode the biteSMS sub-menu that shows “Add Contact” and smileys allowed you to press the keyboard layer below.
- If during Quick Compose you lock your phone, then unlock, the “To:” field is no longer cleared out.
- Increased the data timeout when sending via the biteSMS network (as some iPhones using EDGE were experiencing timeout issues).
Note: For Firmware 2 users, although you’ll see a biteSMS update in Cydia as Release 4.1, functionally it’s exactly the same as biteSMS Release 3.2. In other words all the new biteSMS features shown above are only available for Firmware 3 users.
BigBoss Authors: Mark Bruce & Kory LeeTags: BiteSMS
July 8th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Still cannot send my lication as before.
There is still a few things missing, like group texting.
I wish i could input in the send to field: clients* and it would choose all contacts that start with that wildcard
July 8th, 2009 at 12:24 am
wow.. these guys copy iReal at every turn. Every time iReal puts out something new, bite follows. Does bite ever do anything original?
July 10th, 2009 at 8:42 am
u can group text you just have to use an app like abcontacts. works great!!! app is solid. and way better than iReal!
July 11th, 2009 at 12:15 am
whats funny is that without iReal this app would not exist…as ALL of their updates are ports from iReal feature list… like I said before, NO ORIGINAL IDEAS.
The difference is that iReal is one dev programing out of his house and another guy tossing original ideas back and forth.
Now Bite is a company with many devs… but they have no idea what people want, and no idea how to brainstorm innovative ideas.. if you really notice, you will see a great feature come out for iReal… about a month later it comes out for bite… this process has gone on since iReal created QuickReply… then landscape text… then QuickSend… the Favorites list… also Lockscreen QuickReply… and Im sure MANY other features! They are a total rip off… I wonder if the ever sit back and think about how lucky they are to have the geniuses at iReal pumping out the ideas for them to leech off of…
July 11th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
LOL I was thinking the same thing when I was reading through this changelog! I was like, “didn’t iReal just do the same thing?”
The good news is iReal still maintains an edge with it’s lite version, known as iRealQuickSMS. This way the install is light and does only what 3.0 doesn’t already do. Sure there are some minor bits like drafts and some other views in the full version, but luckily 3.0 added all the important parts (copy, forward, selective delete, landscape, MMS etc.) and all that’s needed is quickreply & quicksend.
Just wanted to say thanx iReal! Loving your work! Really excited to get landscape quicksend/reply! Was not expecting that!
I didn’t know it was just one or two guys either. That’s amazing. Inspiring.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Yes, they actually do copy all their stuff, except the alternative sending of SMS through their service. But I have to admit (having bought both apps and trying both) that bitesms just “feels” better.
Besides that, I now started using their service to save money, so ireal is no alternative anymore.
But yes, the innovation comes from ireal
July 19th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I hope we can win you back Eric. :)
We have a new UI coming soon, to give it that better feel, and sms credit system we are also playing with at the moment. So expect many more great things from iReal… and then I guess you can expect those things from Bite a little later… lol
July 21st, 2009 at 5:40 am
bite better cause ireal is stupid by having options on bottom of keyboard. u fanboys dont have a problem with that????bite doesnt do that…
July 21st, 2009 at 11:55 pm
You must be using the UI option for “Apple Like Conversation UI”…this UI is infact in beta.. thats why there is an option to disable it. When we fine tune it your going to eat those words I promise. We threw it in there to give you a taste of what we are working on.. which is a more stock looking interface.
Insertion of drafts, smilies & templates from within the conversation is coming soon!