Jaiku for Symbian S60 released

Jaiku is a software application for mobile phones that enables you to post and browse "Jaikus", add comments, and share your status and location.

The main push of this release is to let you bring the rich conversation you’ve been enjoying on the Jaiku website with you out into the world on your S60 mobile.

Other new features include:

• The choice between longer battery life or more up-to-date presence.
• Reading and writing comments from and to your contacts.
• Go back in time! Using the ’stream view’ for your contacts, you can see what they were doing and saying in the past, not just their most recent post.
• More than just Jaikus! You can also see when your contacts have posted to flickr.
• Improved presence view, to make the most of your screen real-estate.
• A whole raft of usability improvements, based on what our users have been telling us they need, including an even easier to use interface, and a progress meter, so you can see what’s happening.
• More optimal data transfer and connection maintenance, giving you more bang for your wireless data dollar.
• …and all the essential (but not that interesting) stuff like bug fixes, speed improvements, that sort of thing.
• Oh, and let’s not forget – a spiffy new manual for this client.

Download it here.

Of course, all your favourite features from the previous release are still there as well:

• The live contact list works just like your phone’s built-in phonebook, and enhances the list with the buddy icons and real-time presence of your Jaiku contacts.
• Post new Jaikus and have them immediately appear on the Web and your contacts phones.
• Share your availability based on your phone’s ring profile.
• Share your location based on free naming of cell towers.
• Option to share your phone calendar (choose to share full titles of events or just when you are free/busy).
• Option to share number of nearby people based on detection of Bluetooth phones.
• Switch Jaiku online or offline at any time.
• Easy wizard guides you through the setup.
• Automatic roaming detection alerts you when you are roaming away from your home network.

Now, if you’re not lucky enough to have an S60 phone, of course you can still join in on the mobile Jaiku fun.

Firstly, there’s our Mobile Site – http://m.jaiku.com/ – I’m told it works great for iPhone people.

There’s also the Jaiku Widget, which will run on most modern phones (as long as they’ve got Java support).