Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Is Scope the next great social media app for Android?

Yesterday was the release of Scope Beta on Android. Socialscope has been a popular app on Blackberry, and is now ported to Android.

Scope integrates Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, and Instagram into one app. Personally, I only use Facebook and Twitter, and I will show you some screenshots and usability in this post.


Here is the main page of the app, giving you easy access to your news feed, photos, videos, and much more. 

Here is quick access to your list of friends, which includes all the social networks that you have added. Popular refers to trends on Twitter. Settings are quite limited, being a beta app, it merely includes the option of turning notifications on, and off, enabling vibration, and refresh settings.

The plus sign located on the lower left gives you quick access to posting new updates.You have the option of posting text, check-in, photos, and posting your drafts.

Here is the main stream, and the interface integrates all your social networks. A small, informative, yet non-intrusive icon is on the side to show where the information is gathered from. 

The arrow, once expanded, gives you a tray of icons to quickly switch from photos, videos, check-ins, mentions, etc. You can also access your Direct messages, or Messages from Facebook.

Here is a screenshot of the photos stream, giving a big picture to see.

Overall, this is a very good beta app of Scope. This may give a run for the money to Tweetdeck. 


Is it enough for me to switch from Tweetdeck? Not yet. I have experienced some bugs, such as Scope continuously logging me out of Twitter and Facebook. This notorious notification occurs just almost every hour. Annoying? Yes. Until that has been solved, I will continue to use Tweetdeck. 

Update: They have fixed the issue, and I am now using Scope Beta full time :)

Perhaps the final release version of Scope will turn me over, but for now, Tweetdeck it is.

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