Gadgetory

hi this is dieter bohn for the verge and we are looking at scope beta for android this is a private beta of a social networking app formerly known as socialscope they have rebranded this is a very popular app on blackberry it's coming to android it's in a private beta right now essentially what it does is it combines your social networks into a single app so it can do Facebook Foursquare Instagram Twitter and Tumblr and the core functionality here is if you go into all activity you can see all of your activities so you can see facebook twitter if there's an Instagram here we can scroll down see Instagram photo posted here images are full width which is pretty neat it also includes videos and so this is you know pretty much everything and when you when you see something that you like you can tap into it so this is a Twitter thing here I can reply I can retweet I can favor it i can share if there's an Instagram you can favorite and comment and so on and so forth you can also there's this button down here on the bottom right which shows you the different sections that you're in so we're in the all section but if I swipe to the right you'll see that we've jumped into the images section and so you can see all the images that have been posted recently it's pretty neat and you can see here we do have some duplication because of showing same thing on multiple networks but here's a pretty sweet image from Philly Disney solve them something to that looks like I'm viewing this on Twitter I'd rather do it on Instagram which is where he posted it there's the Instagram one so I can like that really quick and if you swipe to the right again you've got videos and so here's a video that Ross posted and i'll just open up the web go back to the app here we can look at check-ins as well and at replies i'm not going to show you my messaging but that's down there as well and then you could also even filter into just Facebook just four square just Instagram or just Twitter in addition to this filter down at the bottom there's another filter in the upper right which is for the different social networks within the stream at you're in so it's a pretty complicated setup for you know filtering if you want to dig in and be a power user but if you just want to use it straight it's actually relatively straightforward you know it's not a full client for any of these social networks so you know there's no list support in Twitter for example but on the other hand it does aggregate all of your messages from facebook and twitter which is pretty neat so you can look at your private messages there as well as far as posting goes they have a button in the lower left hand corner this is almost identical to how path operates which is an interesting but useful so you can post a status update a check in an image pull an image from your gallery or even save a draft and so we can you know go here to post a message you can type in your message you can choose the networks that you'd like to post it to you can't check in on foursquare without having a location but you can do that it will even auto populate @ replies here which is pretty cool and you can attach images and whatnot unfortunately you can't post to Instagram although you can view and like Instagram stuff and comment on it but that's just a limitation of the API the instagram has available disk aren't that message so there you go that is scope beta on android oh one other feature I'm by apologize it does a really good job of aggregating your friends into a single contact so if you want to see everything that a certain friend is doing on a certain social network you can dig into that person just sitting down to josh here and you can see I've got Josh on Twitter Facebook and Instagram which is pretty neat anyway there you go that is scope beta for android it isn't private beta so you'll need to snag an invite it should be launching relat soon there's no word on when a iOS personal comments Android only but it's pretty slick if if you use all these social networks and find yourself jumping in and out each of those separate apps