Review: MoTweets For Windows Phone
Software, Windows Phone 7
I’ve been doing a lot of tweeting lately, and instead of using the built in Twitter client in my Samsung Focus Windows Phone handset, I optioned for something a little better, MoTweets. MoTweets, in my honest opinion is the best Twitter application on Windows Phone, and believe me when I say I’ve tried them all.
There are so many features to talk about here that I fear I might not be able to cover everything, but I will try my very best. When you first fire up MoTweets, you’ll be required to log into your account before going forward, and as soon as you do, the options screen is the first thing you will come face to face with. The list of options are more than decent, you have the ability to change the skin, font size, turn on or off the vibrate notification, auto refresh, the option to show quick buttons, max number of tweets to show on in your timeline which ranges from 25 to 200, choose picture service, URL service, GPS on or off, and Live Tiles. The only thing missing is a sound alert option, something like that would really come in handy because the vibration is too short and not powerful enough. (heh, that sounded a little dirty).
On the main display, here you have your Twitter timeline which allows you to view all incoming tweets. If you swipe to the left or right, you’ll see mentions, inbox, near me which brings up tweets from people near your location (GPS must be set to “on”), and the image wall. One thing I failed to mention, MoTweets allows you to manage multiple Twitter accounts, I haven’t tested it because I only have one so I cannot tell for sure how well it works, but I’ve been reading good things about it. To get to the manage accounts section, just tap that three dot thing at the bottom right corner of your display, it should bring it up along with the quick view and search buttons.
Quick View is one of the features of MoTweet that I truly like. With Quick View you can view current and local trends if you are looking for the most exciting things going on Twitter at any given time from folks tweeting in your country or the world at large. Search on the other hand, it is pretty straight forward. Tap search and you get to choose from a normal Twitter search to searching for users or locations, and that’s about it.
So I have talked a lot about features and options, now let’s dig into the performance. MoTweets in my over 24hr use ran relatively smooth, however, there are times when it would force my Samsung Focus to restart, in other words, it crashed my phone. This doesn’t happen often but if you use Twitter a lot like I do, it is something you will notice. O the matter of scrolling, it is super fast, though sometimes it will fail to load the pictures of tweeters in your timeline as you scroll farther down. That isn’t a problem for me, just felt I needed to mention that for good measure.
One main problem I had, the Live Tiles didn’t work for me, not sure what was going on there but I will give it a test again and update this review if anything changes.
All in all, MoTweets is one solid Twitter client despite its shortcomings, which is not plenty if you think about it. Right now I can safely say that I have found the perfect Twitter client for my Windows Phone device, though the only feature I won’t be using is the picture upload thingy, I reserve that for the built in default Twitter client because pictures are uploaded to my SkyDrive before making its way to Twitter. If you were on the fence in regards to which Twitter client to get, MoTweets would be it.
You can download MoTweets for free or for $1.99 if you despise advertisements right here from the Windows Marketplace.
