Thursday, February 26, 2009

Pocketwit! best touchscreen interface for twitter!

Found this while browsing through 1800pocketpc.com its an awesome twitter app for touchscreen windows mobile devices. you can get it here at the code/google page.

features:
-A unique user interface (can't be seen in screenshots, see the video below)
-Works on VGA, QVGA and SmartPhone devices
-Support for multiple twitter and identi.ca accounts
-Maps view shows users on a world map and allows searching by region
-"Conversation View" shows a what this status was in reply to.
-Uses standard notifications to alert you of new friends statuses or replies
-URL shortening with is.gd
-Integration with shorttext.com for tweets longer than 140 characters
-Take photos and send to TwitPic
-Integrated search.twitter.com
-Clickable @names, URLs, and #Hashtags
-Option to check for new version on startup
-Themes

The "kinetic scrolling" ui is something similar to touchflo and smoooooothe as butter! just see the video below:

2 comments:

anonymous said...

Freckl3 writes:

Awesome twitter app!I didn't know my device could perform such smooth scrolling!Appearently Windows Mobile 6.1 is just badly coded as PockeTwit runs excellent while scrolling.

chaitanyak said...

i know what you mean, the scrolling in this "3rd party" app is smoother than the scrolling menu in microsoft's own Sideshow app! :P