Windows Mobile Twitter Clients

I’ve been using Twitter for a while now, (http://twitter.com/brettrigby), maybe for about 8 months or so and thought I’d mention about some of the fun I’ve have had using Twitter clients on my Windows-based mobile phone.

I currently have an HTC TyTN II mobile phone, which runs the Windows Mobile 6.0 platform. I’ve had this for about 18 months and I really like it.  It’s everything I want/need in a mobile phone, plus more.  (Except the 3G coverage around my area is pants.)

Tiny Twitter
Since playing around with Twitter, I started out using a free Twitter client, named Tiny Twitter, which was a great introduction to the world of Tweets and micro-blogging.

Here’s a few screenshots of Tiny Twitter in action:

I found this application being reviewed on a website somewhere and thought it looked like a good place to start. And it was free.

Tiny Twitter served me really well, allowing me to scroll around the tweets in and out of my account.  It’s fairly basic, but as I said, a brilliant start.

Twikini
Once I got into Twitter properly, which admittedly took a while, I got twitchy.  I started to look around to see what other client apps were available, which is when I found Twikini.

Twikini is available as a free time-limited demo, and is then a few pounds to purchase the full version registration key.

I really liked Twikini and didn’t regret buying the full version license of the software, and this is the Twitter client that I have used the most, as I guess that I’ve had this installed for about 4-5 months.

Moving from Tiny Twitter to Twikini was a big leap – a bit like going from Windows XP to Windows 7, as the Twikini user interface was much more appealing, and much more intuitive. And, if I’m honest, much easier and more fun to use, which is an important factor.

Twikini is great, as it allows you to swap between multiple Twitter account, if so desired.  I have set-up several other accounts for different purposes and was able to simply and easily add each one to Twikini and swap at any given time between them and send out accordingly.

If I’m honest, I had a few problems in the end with Twikini not sending out retweeted messages, but I’m not sure that this wasn’t to do with problems I had on my phone at the time.  Sending new tweets was always ok, but re-tweeting something gave me grief.

Which is when I started looking around again.

moTweets
I haven’t long found out about the moTweets Twitter client application and have already been very impressed with it’s use. 

As much of a difference that Twikini was from Tiny Twitter, moTweets is that much different again from Twikini, as the user interface is fully-loaded and action-packed.

moTweets offers two versions of the same software:

• One that is free and has advertisements present, consuming vital screen-space
• The other that is a pay-for version which doesn’t contain any ads.

Again, you get the same functionality that Twikini provides, but it feels so slick and expensive-like! Everything just looks so much nicer and more stylish than I could have expected.  The animation in the scrolling adds to the whole application experience. 

One difference with moTweets over both others that I’ve noticed, is that you’re able to have the application fill the entire screen, removing the standard Windows Mobile ‘chrome’ around the edges – a subtle difference, but one that gives the application much more room to work with, especially on a small screened device such as the TyTN II handset.

As I said, I haven’t long been using moTweets but already think it’s a great application, showing off what can be done on an aging platform such as 6.0.