Droid support and thank you, beta users!

We released WaveSecure on Android Market in early September. At around the same time, Sprint launched the HTC Hero and we were flooded with bug reports and issues from Sprint Hero users. Since we are in Singapore and did not have access to the Sprint Hero (not even on roaming, since Sprint is a CDMA network and there are no CDMA networks here!), we asked users to help us identify these issues so that we can fix them. The same thing happened when the Droid was released.

Lots of people volunteered to help us test and verify our fixes. We chipped away at the issues and consistently released updates every 2 weeks for the past 3 months. As of the last update (v3.0.0.34), we had full Sprint Hero support except for the location tracking feature, mainly because Sprint and/or HTC had done some customizations on Android 1.5 that broke our location feature if GPS was not available.

Today, we are glad to announce that WaveSecure supports Android 2.0 (in addition to 1.5 and 1.6) and CDMA networks. This means that the Droid and the Sprint Hero (except location) and future phones released on Android 1.6 and 2.0 will be supported, unless the manufacturers decide to muck around a little too much and break something that we depend on!

This update has quite a few major fixes/enhancements, listed below:

1. Enhanced location tracking accuracy. Some of users faced some issues with location tracking, sometimes showing the current position in another country altogether! We now ride on the Android platform's location information service. Preliminary testing shows that this information is more accurate.
2. Hard reset proof. If WaveSecure is packaged as part of the ROM, it will connect to the server and you can continue to track the phone. More details coming in the next blog post.
3. Better and faster lock. Some users have complained that the lock screen can be circumvented sometimes. We have improved the locking mechanism and it should be harder to circumvent now.
4. SMS restore fixes. Large amounts of SMS could not be restored - this has been fixed.

Of course, without our beta users, this would not have been possible. We'd especially like to thank Eddie, Warren, Thorvald, Andy, Matt, Kashif, Ben, Topaz and Chris for their support.

Thank you and May the phone be with you!