Twikini: THE Twitter Client for Windows Mobile

Jun 18

JeffTech , No Comments

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!

Twikini
Screen shot of Twikini on a Win­dows Mobile Stan­dard device. DIS­CLAIMER: THIS IS NOT FROM MY PHONE! I am not fol­low­ing Brit­ney, Ryan and Kim.

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.

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