vPost is a product we have written about several times on BlackBerry Cool. The app is an easy way to capture all types of media, and share them via email. You can send pictures, video, and audio to friends and family easily with a minimal number of clicks.
Some new features in the latest version include:
Address book integration.
Ability to rename captured media.
No size limitations.
Setup wizard.
Create groups to make sharing amongst friends easier.
vPost has been working hard at updating their product for both consumer and enterprise. The foundations of this application are very robust and the potential for it includes almost every industry, which is why the app has gone through so many updates. As the app evolves to provide consumers with new features and better functionality, the number of enterprise uses grows.
The most recent update to vPost, which is called version 2.2 tentatively, includes the ability to use your vPost app as an “email messenger.” The application lets you add a list of contacts to the app, where you can share a variety of rich media with the user in a few simple clicks.
What’s new in the next version of vPost:
Unlimited favorites (add pictures to contacts then from address book hit menu -> ‘vpost favourite’). This is the feature that can turn vPost into an ‘email messenger.’
The ability to move around and delete widgets.
Take screenshots. Once vPost is launched, an option to take ‘vPost screenshot’ will show up in the menu.
Full thumbnail view mode for attaching existing media.
Scribble mode. This will enable users to mark-up pictures with text, lines, and objects.
Restaurant review widget. Prepare your post and use this new widget to easily rate and review your dining experience.
Vayyoo has released a FREE variant of the popular vPost application and it’s available in App World right now as a featured item.
vPost is picking up huge momentum here at WES and it’s the official provider to RIM’s mobile bloggers. The official RIM WES blog being powered by vPost can be viewed at www.attendWES.com/blog.
“All BlackBerry users can now Capture, Prepare & Share multimedia with unprecedented ease. You will never need to use the native camera, video, & voice note applications ever again,” says Kyle Kemper, their director of marketing.
According to Vayyoo, vPost is now in the top 25 downloaded applications from App World and climbing.
The free personal use version, delivers to its users the core capabilities of vPost: easy and rapid capture of multiple pictures, videos, & voice notes; easy review and preparation via text annotation & geo-tagging ability; and since it sends via email the possibilities for sharing are unlimited.
There is a Premium Edition version available in the BlackBerry cool store for $10 which has an additional favourite icon, configurable size limits, address book, calendar, and inbox integration.
The attachment limit has been increased to 15 which is great if you want to send a whole batch of pictures or media in seconds.
If you click on pictures in the media ring there is an enhanced preview mode.
The whole UI theme has been polished to be dead sexy.
It’s faster to load and it’s smaller in size (~480kb).
The settings menu has more options and the 1500kb total size limit has been made configurable.
You can also add multiple emails to the favorite widget by placing comma’s between addresses in the settings menu.
GPS can be disabled & enabled by clicking on the GPS indicator. With vPost the user is in control of your media and your location vs. being tracked.
Vpost is listed in the Social Networking and Sharing category of App World.
Here’s the desciption of vPost from App World:
“Use vPost to enhance and expand the BlackBerry experience! Capture and share the moments of life as they happen like never before. vPost makes it possible to bundle, geo-tag and email any combination of pictures, video and audio. Send vPost’s to friends, family, colleagues, blogs or social networks. Get vPost today and start sending rich-media to anyone and everyone!”
I was given the opportunity to try out vPost by Vayyoo Inc. My first thoughts of this app were, Why didn’t RIM include this with their current OS’s? Vayyoo did a good job of filling the need. vPost sends messages as Emails and not multimedia messages (mms), so if you are used to sending pictures, video’s or voice notes via mms you’ll have to get your recipients email or carrier mms email address. vPost is available for 4.5 and 4.6 OS Blackberries, with Storm support coming in March. Installation from the Blackberry Cool store was straight forward and went without a hitch. After the vPost install was completed I was asked to allow permissions for Phone and GPS so naturally, I did. I was greeted with a screen that displayed the End User License Agreement. After agreeing I was asked if I wanted to register my device with Vayyoo. This is where you have the option to enter your activation code or take advantage of the free trial. Vayyoo helped us users out by including an Introduction screen that gives a brief description and quick tips prior to using the program. Continue reading this review of vPost after the jump
Last week was the launch of vPost for BlackBerry. The application lets BlackBerry users capture and email any combination of pictures, video, audio, & GPS location. It’s a multimedia bundle that re-invents email on a BlackBerry.
Once captured you can send multimedia emails to anyone: friends, family, colleagues, blogs, news agencies, and even social networks. Many social networks and news sites have email addresses you can set-up to email photo’s, video, audio, and GPS locations.
Are you a Twitter fan? Follow Vayyoo as they use the app to its fullest extent.
We’ve been talking a lot about Vayyoo for a few reasons: we love their product and we’ve been playing Settlers of Catan with their director of marketing on a pretty regular basis.
vPost is an app that lets you capture and email any combination of Pictures, Video, Audio Notes, Text & GPS location using an extremely powerful and simple interface.
Once you capture any combination of media you can send it via email to friends, family, colleagues, blogs and social networks. Without vPost it can take over 5 minutes to compose an email with 2 pictures, an audio note, and GPS location. With vPost this task can be done in less than a minute with no hassles. You can try vPost today and start sending rich-media to anyone and everyone!
Use it for anything:
- File a life experience by emailing it to yourself
- Share moments with close friends while it’s happening (near real-time)
- Publish media to Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress, Flickr, Picasa, etc. and share with you online communities
- Annotate pictures with a voice recording of what’s actually happened
- Send accidents, act’s heroism, & other newsworthy events in to news agencies (CNN, BBC, etc.)
-Update Twitter via services like posterous.com, pixelpipe.com, and utterli.com
- Send vPost voice & video messages to each other
- Send your friends your exact location in near real time.
Vayyoo has assured us a that a storm version will be available soon.
Vayyoo has setup a vPost website at www.getvpost.com where they have a FAQ, contact info, and links to their Twitter account.
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Recently, you may have heard about Vayyoo and their vPost solution, which enables BlackBerry users to capture pictures, voice, text, and location (via GPS) through one single user interface. Our sister site QuicklyBored has been displaying it’s potential as both a restaurant review device and blogging tool. We were so enamored with Vayyoo’s solution that we signed an exclusive agreement to use vPosting for the majority of our CTIA coverage (sorry Ronen).
However, vPosting is much more than a simple consumer application, it’s a new medium for mobile communication. Before we start vPosting like crazy all over CTIA, we thought we should take the time to fully explain what Vayyoo can do.
