Yesterday, we sneaked out the latest version of Taptu when you weren’t looking.

Mainly, we released a new version which caters better to low end phones. Some phones, like Motorola RAZRs and previous generations of Sony Ericssons need smaller, simpler pages, tweaked for their limitations. Every time you access Taptu, we detect what mobile phone you’re using and give you the version of the service that will provide the best experience. What’s the point of sending the high end version to your phone if it’s going to crash your browser?

We’ve also released a metric ton of bug fixes and tiny tweaks to improve the service, some of them based on bug reports you’ve sent in - so thank you all for your useful feedback, your comments never go unheard!

*Shifty look around for the boss* I’m not supposed to be telling you this, but we’ve also released a few extra small features, which are very beta. Shh! You’ll just have to go play around with the service to find those out for yourself…

Thanks to some stellar detective work, we’ve solved the problem with missing images we posted about an hour ago. Everything should be working smoothly with all full-size images appearing, but please let us know if you come across any problems.

Thanks again for your patience!

As of last night, part of our Taptu image search has gone walkabout. You’ll see that thumbnails are all visible, but that when clicking to view the larger version, the image might not show up.

We’ve identified the problem and have our engineers on the case to hunt down the missing images. We hope we can resolve this as quickly as possible, but please bear with us while we print out “Missing: Have you seen this image server?” posters to put up around the neighbourhood and get our pocket change together for the reward (will 2 lollipops and a button do?) to thank you for your patience.