More Twitter Apps for Your Symbian Phone - Part 2

cellity tweeter is another Java MIDlet based Twitter client, with some interesting features as well. The features correspond closely to the options that are available on Twitter, like viewing the list of followers or friends, and their respective timelines. The timelines display up to twenty messages in one shot, giving a fairly large overview of the timeline.

A Danish application, WirelessIRC + Twitter is first and foremost an IRC client, with Twitter functionality. Having said this, the interface is extremely jazzy, and has very pleasant aesthetics. The client has a few rather unique features, which I personally cannot see myself using. For instance, it is possible to store logs of all conversations carried out using the client to a Google Documents account. The client will automatically collect any links contained within the chats, and save them to a del.icio.us account for future reference. Apart from some oddball features, and a very unwieldy name, the client is a good one, setting out to accomplish what it is meant to do.

Slandr is not a mobile client, but it warrants a mention here, as it does facilitate tweeting from a mobile phone. Slandr is actually a mobile site, which in turn is a sort of web –based client for Twitter. The major advantages of using Slandr are the definite drop in data downloads, and of course, there is no application to download and install. Having said this, I see very little point in using a website that aggregates another website. It’s not RSS after all; it is just one site, and Twitter already has one of these.

Twitteresce is a small, very ordinary mobile client, with update facilities. There are a few known bugs, and they don’t seem to be going any time soon. There is nothing spectacular about Twitteresce, I would suggest that it is about the same level as jTwitter, so people who enjoy using that application, and have no objection to additional bugs, should use this one.

Like Slandr, the Twitter mobile page isn’t a client at all. It has very few of the features that its desktop counterpart has, but it gets the job done. The interface is simple, although there is barely any point in logging on to this site, when there are really good clients that will get the job done better.