Foursquare expands its possibilities on Android
The social network Foursquare is willing to excel by betting on the component social and listening to its users to evolve in the right direction On this occasion, an update arrives with several new features for the platform Android As usual, the folks at Foursquare list these versions with release date , the latter being 2012.10.09 Below we will describe all the news that they have included in this social network.
It should be said that, just like the previous update, we found old functions returning to the app at popular request, something that honors the people of Foursquare for following the advice of the users. Thus, we see that the point system returns to the Check-in screens, a an issue highly appreciated by themost loyal users,who can now use it again. But it is not the only thing we find in this update.
Within the detail screen of a place a new tool has been introduced to alert Foursquare authorities about possible spam or misuse of a place through messages, descriptions or otherwise.The option is called Report an issue (they must have forgotten to translate the button), and it lets you know that the information of that place is incorrect, if the establishment has closed and continues to appear on the social network, if it has a incorrect address or if appears twice to do Check-in or record our passage through it. A good way to avoid confusion and transform Foursquare into a toolmore reliable.
Along with this, we find a rather important novelty. This is a new categorization of places In this way, it is easier to find the type of establishmentconcrete that we are looking for thanks to the new icons, be it a park, a meat grill, a place to drink, a bridge, a hostel, and a long etcMuch more intuitive and faster than in previous versions, where we needed to access the detail page to know exactly the kind of place it is.
In addition, as we said before, Foursquare seeks to further highlight the social aspect , finding us now highlighted in bold the interactions, mentions and other actions of our contacts Something that can be seen in the tab Friends, through small messages to indicate these issues. News that improves a social network that already has more than 25 million users across all platformsin which it is present and that, it seems, will continue to try to listen to their requests and complaints.
In short, an update that is not too important in terms of originality of functions, but that will delight the most assiduous users, returning functions requested by the community itself.This version 2012.10.09 can now be downloaded completely free for devices Android through Google Play An update that, as a curious fact, arrives before the platform of the green android than to Apple devices, when we are used to the opposite.
