Today UberTwitter has announced via Twitter that they had released Beta-9 ready to download. The version number is 0.99.

This release includes some new features, but more importantly includes a major bug-fix that we thought was important enough to warrant getting this to you sooner rather then later.

Some of the new features in this released :

• Bug Fix – Fixed a bug where the menu key would become unresponsive and occasionally the device would lock up. This same bug likely was causing excessive battery usage over time.
• Late @replies – Fixed bug where if you received an @reply and saw the notification on the uber bar and then went to your @replies, you couldn’t find any new ones there.
• Filtered UberChannels – When you pull up the timeline for an UberChannel the tweets are now filtered so that you will only see on-topic tweets.
• Notification Flowers – Everyone liked the uniqueness of the notification ‘flowers’ on the main icon when you had a new tweet/@reply or DM, we made them even better by including a red and white star in the middle to make them stand out.
• TweetPhoto is now Plixi – We have converted it all over to use the new Plixi logo and wording.
• Photo/Video Picker – We now use the native Photo/Video file picker on BlackBerry OS version 6.0.
• New Themes – There are two new themes! The Midnight theme which we think many of you will find extremely appealing, and the Classic theme which brings back many of the color choices of version 0.971 including the same solid colors for @replies and DMs.

Midnight Theme

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