Twitter is still grabbing headlines and shows no signs of flagging. It has even made it onto a recent edition of Radio Four's 'The Moral Maze' where it was puzzled over by the panel as if it were a Sanskrit-inscribed Rubik's Cube. Accordingly, the number of Twitter apps available for Nokia phones is steadily growing. Twitbreeze is the latest one to pop up on the Nokia Ovi Store.
Initial impressions were good - once we logged in and set the app to download tweets plus user avatar pics we were greeted by some pleasingly large type and big, colourful renditions of those avatars. Very readable, and simply laid out.
The app is controlled via a single 'Menu' soft key which pops up a list of options - Show tweets, Refresh, Direct Messages, etc. The menu is navigable via teh D-pad and each option switches to a new screen. It is while using the menu that the first signs appear that all is not right.
The menu occasionally contains items called 'undefined' that try to launch a web browser (to load what, we are not sure). Links from previously viewed tweets sometimes linger in the menu while you are reading the next tweet, and the D-Pad will occasionally scroll the tweets behind the menu, rather than move you up and down the menu itself. Silly bugs, in other words, and ones that really detract from the experience.
Worse is to come, though. We tried to send a tweet - just a test message 'Testing Twitbreeze.' Typed using the N95's keypad this came out as 'testing0twitbreeze1'. Umm, what? We typed it again. Same result. It appears that Cascada software have decided that the way your phone's keypad usually works is.. inappropriate. Space is now moved to the 'Upper/lower' case key, full-stop is now the second character on the '1' key (we still haven't found the comma) and you get upper case letters only by cycling through the lower case letters first. This makes the app a pain to use and pretty much sucks the life from what could have easily been a useful, free alternative to big players like Gravity.
Details
Size: 0.267 MB
Price: Free
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