Looking For a Few Good Hardware Testers

Posted on 17 Feb 09 by Raanan Bar-Cohen

Back in November we planned on pushing out the latest 1.2 version of the WordPress for iPhone app to all of you “very soon.” Unfortunately, as you can tell, that hasn’t happened and the process has taken a bit longer. The main reason for the delay is that when Apple released iPhone OS 2.2 during our final testing period, we discovered a host of new issues that needed to be addressed.

The good news is that we now feel comfortable that the app is performing well and is nearly ready for the App store. Before pushing this out to Apple just yet, we’d like to get a few dozen of you to test this version on your actual iPhone/iPod Touch devices.  We want to ensure that nothing new pops up in hardware testing that did not show up before.

To receive a copy of the beta app, just fill out this quick survey and we’ll randomly pick a few dozen of you and send you the app plus instructions for getting this new version onto your device.  (Update: Thanks to everyone who filled out the survey.  We received an overwhelming number of responses and will be contacting the randomly chosen beta testers shortly with instructions for installing the beta ).  Apple limits the number of hardware beta testers you can have so we can’t send a copy to everyone — even though we’d love to.

As a reminder, this new version includes:

  • Landscape mode with the extra wide keyboard
  • Link creation help
  • Support for editing and creating Pages
  • Comment moderation
  • Asynchronous publishing
  • Photo resizing options

Thanks for your continued support and help on this great project and we hope to get this new version into everyone’s hands as soon as possible.

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22 Responses to “Looking For a Few Good Hardware Testers”

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  2. AgentSmith February 17th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    It’s really great to finally hear something from this project again. I have always followed the progress in TRAC, so I knew it wasn’t dead, but to someone less caring it may well have seemed so.
    I’d love to help with testing. :)

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  8. JellyBeen February 18th, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    I’m looking forward to the new WordPress app. Now I just need to get to my home PC and fill out that survey …

  9. oberazzi February 19th, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    I am looking forward to landsscape mode. Being visually impaired, many apps are hard to use. I have written about this extensively on my blog (www.timobrienphotos.com). Landscape mode is one of the basic accessibility features (see http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/12/accessing-iphone-apps/ for the full set) every app should have. Have you considered enabling zoom and offering adjustable font sizes and an alternate color scheme?

    I would love to help beta-test any accessibility features. Just let me know.

  10. Darnell Clayton February 20th, 2009 at 5:18 am

    I am also looking forward to the new version of WordPress! Just finished filling out the survey…hoping some great news arrives in my inbox. :-)

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  12. Wayne Sutton February 20th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    Thanks for the update, I can’t wait for the new version to be released. When this comes out then I’m going to update the rest of my blogs to 2.7.

    Thanks

    Wayne

  13. lebkin February 21st, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Thank you for the update. I can’t wait for landscape mode. Keep up the good work.

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