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25-02-2010Finally found a decent Twitter application for my Nokia 5800 today. It's called Gravity and is one of the better applications I have played with.
Considering less than a year ago I wasn't going to bother with Twitter at all it is funny how big an impact it has made on my Internet activity. With The Bauble now updating Twitter and my Facebook status linked to Twitter having Twitter on my phone went from being a nice idea to something that I really wanted.
I played with the Fring Twitter updating, but since Fring takes so long to load up everything I sort of got fed up using it.
I tried Snaptu but found it to be so so at best and the interface was a bit all over the place.
I gave Stew a good try. It appeared to be a widget created by the same folks that made the Facebook application for Nokia, but there was still something about it that just wasn't making me want to use it.
So along comes Gravity and I have to say I am very impressed by it.
I know that I could have gone and gotten an iPhone and probably found the "app for that" in a few seconds, but I don't like the iPhone. It just doesn't appeal to me in anyway at all.
This isn't a fanboy thing. I am not a devout Nokia user who will only purchase Nokia phones. My main reason to buy a phone these days is wifi. If the model has wifi I will consider it, if I can make a full on 3D feature film on the phone but it doesn't have wifi I won't give it a second glance.
It is the ease of having the net on a device that is generally always with you.
Apparently that is what the iMaxipad is all about. But again I can't find any reason to buy that either. If I want a novelty sized mobile phone I will buy a novelty sized mobile phone.
But Gravity is definitely worth checking out if you have been looking at updating your twitter from your mobile but haven't found an application to do the job. It is dead easy to use (I had it installed and configured in under a minute) and the interface is very nice. I would even go so far as to say intuitive.
What's more is that it doesn't just do Twitter. It can pull down information from your Facebook and even your Google Reader. While I can take or leave the Facebook bit (since I have a Facebook app that does the job nicely) the Google Reader is nice. One of the morning rituals when I first get into the office these days is to check my RSS feed and see what is going on with the sites I follow. After checking emails and having my third cup of tea of course.
Speaking of which, I hear the kettle boiling.
Blue_jester
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