Gravity review

September 23rd, 2009 by Kunal

“Gravity – The S60 twitter client” claims to be the first fully-featured twitter client and is the most popular one too. We did a review of the application to find out if this twitter client really lives upto its claims and deserve all that popularity.

We tried Gravity on a Nokia E71. The installation is smooth like any other symbian application with the regular ‘untrusted application’ warning from Nokia which users hardy care about anymore.

Pic – The start page

The start page of application looks well organised with vertically aligned functions which can be browsed through the D-pad. The application  is divided into different pages – Accounts, Timeline, Replies, Messages, My Tweets, Favourites, Friends and Followers. The start of application begins with a command to add an Account.

Pic – accounts supported

Gravity supports twitter, identi.ca and now Facebook.

Pic- Multiple accounts

The application supports multiple accounts and updates them simultaneously. The tweets update automaticallyly. The Accounts page consist of multiple twitter accounts aligned in a ladder fashion. Each twitter account shows the username with thumbnails of few followers and the details about last update.

Pic – Timeline view

Selecting a particular account and browsing horizontally through the D-pad takes you to the second page of the application -Timeline. The timeline looks much similar to that of the twitter website. Clicking on any of the tweet gives options for reply, retweet, favorite, @mention, and the bit.ly link (if any). The function covers up pretty much everything that one does in twitter and looks quite user-friendly.

Pic – Messages view

The replies page includes all the tweets wherein the user used @mention or which had @user in the tweet. The page looks useful to track an ongoing chat on twitter which is not available even in twitter.

The Messages page again includes both sent and received DMs on the same page which is again a feature not available on twitter. My Tweets contains all the tweets by the user. Here a delete option is also available.

The Friends page includes everyone that the user is following. The page includes follow/unfollow buttons which is cool. Followers page includes everyone who is following the user. Here following or blocking a user is available.

Pic – Profile View

A profile view is also available when the user clicks on @mentions which shows a small description of the @mention and options like tweets, conversations , web and follow.

Uploading pictures and picture preview from mobile can be directly done by using the MobyPicture, TwitPic, TwitGoo, Posterous, Yfrog or img.ly. Gravity also supports opening URLs from any tweet.

Other mentionable functionalities include kinetic scrolling on S60V5, fullscreen mode, theme support, and WLAN support.

Well, with all those exhaustive functionalities, there are a few pitfalls too. A user can be logged into multiple accounts including different twitter and facebook accounts. But the auto-update slows down noticeably while using  more than two accounts. Another major drawback is accounts once added can not be deleted. We has to reinstall the application to do that. Also, this application would be heavy on your pocket. The application is available for $9.95 on the Mobileways.

If you are a regular twitter user and would want all the twitter functionalities (in fact more) in your mobile twitter client, Gravity is a must have.  For the ones who are still not sure if they would like to spend around $10 on a twitter client, downloading a 10-day trial version from Nokia Ovi Store is recommended.

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