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Seesmic’s mobile foray kicked off with BlackBerry and Android Twitter apps, but has since expanded to new networks (like Facebook and Ping.fm) and is now available on iPhone. The UI is pretty flashy, allowing users to add different profiles as thumbnails much like tabs in the Safari browser, and rearrange them as you would home screen icons. As fancy as that is, you can just swipe left and right to switch between your registered accounts if you’re looking for something a little more straightforward.
Twitter is Seesmic’s biggest strength, providing support for lists, trending topics, retweets and quotes, direct messages, URL shortening, pictures, geolocation, and multiple accounts, but the Facebook support isn’t bad either – you can browse your news feed, and drop comments and Likes on items. A valuable addition to Seesmic for iPhone is Evernote, which store important items in the cloud for easy access later on. Seesmic’s acquisition, Ping.fm, is also included and lets you blast updates out to about 1.824 bazillion other networks at once, if Facebook and Twitter alone don’t do it for you.
The iPhone twitter app market is a tough place to be entering into now that there’s not only a large collection of established, recognized names, but Twitter itself has recently released an official client. Despite that, Seesmic’s entry is aggressive and promising, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see more than a few people switching to Seesmic. If any of you happen to be in that camp, download links are below.
– Download Seesmic iPhone (Free) [iTunes Link]
- Download Seesmic for Android (Free) [Market Link]
– Download Seesmic for BlackBerry (Free) [App World Link]
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About The Author
Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
