As BlackBerry App World launches, we compare Twitter apps and make funny faces behind our iPhones
It's the weekly Pocket Picks round-up
Yes, we know we're jumping onto the bandwagon but everyone's reviewing mobile Twitter applications these days, aren't they? What's that you say? You don't have time because you're too busy sending tweets. Well, let us inform you...
Stuart cracked out Twittix, the app from Mojos Studio for Series 60 phones. It's a basic little number but does the required business, although it costs €4.95, which seems a little steep.
Meantime, Jon continued to evangelise for Loquacious (which he reviewed last week), while supposedly reviewing AndTweet and Twidroid.
Twidroid is probably the most popular Twitter app for Android, with loads of features and settings but somehow it didn't click with Mr Jordan, despite being free. Loquacious is $2.99. As for AndTweet, like Twittix, it was too basic. It doesn't even show profile images.
On the iPhone track, Fraser was having a whale of a time. He messed around with viral app MouthOff; you pick a comedy mouth, hold the iPhone infront of your mouth and make mad noises, while filming yourself. The app will match your outpourings, creating a video – which we're told will be hilarious. To gain the full effect, you have to send it off to YouTube with the tag 'showusyourmouthoff'.
He then got his hands on the just released Skype app, which was excellent and free. His network provider isn't so happy.
It's not been all reviews this week, though. The big news was the launch of BlackBerry's App World – another competitor for the App Store and Android Market; not to mention the forthcoming Nokia Ovi and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
News leaking from Redmond confirmed that its Marketplace would offer 24-hour refunds and payment via your phone bill.
Nokia is keeping busy with the unveiling of the very neat looking Photo Browser for touchscreen Series 60 phones, as well as a major update for its Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phones, and better support for email on the move via its Nokia Messaging software.
But back to those reviews. Our favourite app of the week was Flickr Upload. All it does it add the option to upload photos from your Android phone to your Flickr account but Jon reckoned it was the best $0.99 he'd spent since he won the lottery.
He also debated the attributes of two Android apps that hook into Wikipedia. Strangely they both take completely different approaches with WikiMobile Encyclopedia completely reprocessing all the pages to ensure they look good on the small screen, while Quickpedia doing a fast, reformating job. Both are free and work well, but because of its speed and streamlimed UI, Quickpedia was deemed the winner.
Well, they do say time is money.
