Twitter, micro blogging at its best, possible solutions for S60 devices a mini review

the worldwide micro-blogging phenomenon, is alive and vibrant in the Nokia world especially if you have a cool Nseries phone or a cool Eseries. What are our relevant choices to be Twitter mobile.

1. the S60 Browser – its cool but not fast enough for speed requirements
2. Twibble – now we’re talking
3. Twim – pretty nice twitter application
3. Snaptu- looks amazing, you have to see it for yourself (previously reviewed in another post – here)

The last three choices are Java apps that run in our beloved phone. Let’s start our discussion with Twibble.

Twibble is a very nicely done Twitter client that runs very smoothly on S60 platforms, it supports shortcuts and did I mention that it looks super cool, ok it looks super cool. They also have a nice desktop version for Mac and Windows that looks awesome as well, the only visual difference is that the desktop supports contact pictures and the mobile version doesn’t, I suspect that this was done on purpose to reduce data charges especially in Europe as the developers are German and from what I’ve read in WWW, data charges in Europe are really expensive as oppose to us here in the U.S. and more people have unlimited data plans(myself -tmobile). You can check out Twibble home page here . Currently its my favorite nokia client. Here are the keyboard shortcuts for your convenience.

Keyboard shortcuts

Use the arrow or page up/down keys to navigate in the tweet list. twibble also has some shortcuts for numeric and qwerty keyboards (List describes twibble Version 0.8.6):

• [0]: options dialog
• [1] or [t]: send a tweet
• [2] or [r]: @-reply to selected screen name
• [3] or [d]: direct message
• [4]: toggle between all tweets and dm/@-Messages
• [5]: jump to first tweet
• [7]: Mark selected tweet as a favorite
• [8] or [h]: Run twibble in the background (Note: twibble may still try to fetch new tweets using your data connection! To shut down twibble always use exit)
• [9]: Show log (to see more messages raise the log level in the Options dialog)
• [*] or [u]: Fetch new tweets (use this to manually update your tweets. Only new tweets will be fetched and inserted to the current list)
• [#]: Reload tweet list (the current tweet list will be cleared and the tweet list from the twitter server will be reloaded)

Twim is another Java application that runs on S60 as you can appreciate from the picture, it looks pretty tight, I just downloaded today and I’m still giving it a try but so far so good. I’m kind off biased towards Twibble because I currently use both Twibble Mobile and Twibble Desktop and I like having things the same accross all platforms but Twim is strong on its own. You can pick it up here and try it for yourself you may like it enough to find a permanent spot for it in your beloved Nokia phone

So in conclusion the options are out there, its just a matter of choice software democracy at its best. Again for me its Twibble and Twibble Desktop although I discovered another desktop client which is very cool indeed, its called Twhirl

Snaptu – an amazing application which houses Facebook, Twitter, Picassa Web, etc.

Snaptu is truly an amazing application, its a java based app unlike any other, you really have to download this to your phone to experience the tightest integration across various platforms. Recently I’ve been getting into twitter and I’ve been using Twibble but I have been pleasantly by Snaptu, Twitter’s interface is just like the Twitter on the web it really does look amazing. Snaptu has been able to capture pieces of the www and bring it to your mobile in a nice and clean interface which is very conducive to viewing your content anywhere you are, it really is no a no brainer. Currently I’m using my Nokia N82 and it looks great but tomorrow my N85 arrives via Ups and I can’t wait to see this application on the OLED screen, I’m expecting a “wow” experience. Applications which Snaptu currently has are the following:

1. Facebook – very very very very nice integration
2. Twitter – very very very nice integration as well
3. Picassa – awesome, can’t say enough about this
4. News – RSS reader, very nice, nicely done, on a side note I’ve been trolling the web for a nice RSS reader and have not really been to happy with what’s out there (C’mon Nokia give us something cool)
5. UK Movies, I certainly hope in the near future they release a U.S. version
6. Google Calendar – nicely done and provides 100% sync compatability so if you use Google Calendar
7. And a few others like Pubs, Concert tickets etc. check it out for yourself you won’t be disappointed

From your mobile phone you can get Snapture here – Mobile Snaptu or point your phone browser to m.snaptu.com