For the past six months or so I had been using Pock­eTwit as my main Twit­ter client on my Win­dows Mobile Pro­fes­sional (touch screen) phone. The graph­ics looked really good, the func­tion­al­ity was robust…but the app was just so tem­pera­men­tal! It lagged when scrolling through tweets, it gave me random “Communications Error” mes­sages even while on a clean wi-​fi or Edge con­nec­tion and the app com­pletely froze my phone on more than one occasion.

Then I started seeing some buzz about a new kid on the Twit­ter app block: Trin­ket Software’s Twikini. Being a good Win­dows Mobile geek, I had to try it. The ver­dict? Two enthu­si­as­tic thumbs up! Here’s a stock screen shot of Twikini1

The main rea­sons I’m switch­ing to Twikini are:

• Speed: Twikini loads fast and the tweets scroll very smoothly up and down the screen
• Sta­bil­ity: Twikini has never frozen my phone (always a good sell­ing point)
• Clean UI: No bulky graph­ics weigh­ing it down, but it still man­ages to look very good
• Twit­Pic Embed­ded in the Tweet: This is prob­a­bly my single favorite fea­ture – instead of having to launch the phone’s browser to view a pic­ture uploaded to Twit­Pic, the image is embed­ded in the tweet – so I can stay within Twikini to view the image.

As of the writ­ing of this post, the only hiccup I found was with pass­word man­age­ment. My Twit­ter account pass­word con­tains some num­bers, and for some reason Twikini forgot the num­bers each time I tried launch­ing the app. Instead of going right into my feed, it made me re-​enter the numer­i­cal por­tion of my pass­word. Strange bug, hope­fully one that is fixed soon.

So if you’re search­ing for a fast, clean, fully-​functioning Twit­ter client for your Win­dows Mobile device (Stan­dard or Pro­fes­sional), give Twikini a try.