When it come to mobile applications, I'm usually unforgiving: most web related applications eat up memory, space and suck the life out of batteries. Spice Labs' Twitter client Trill, doesn't do that. I've been using it off and on for the last month or so, and it is one of the better Twitter clients for Symbian that I've tried: Gravity is clearly the most popular Symbian based client for Twitter, and I've often wondered why Nokia doesn't acquire it. Also, unlike some other twitter applications, Trill doesn't pop up annoying alerts. It's interface is fairly intuitive and easy, and frankly, quite similar to Gravity in a few respects. What Spice Mobile Plans To Do Spice Labs CEO Lokesh Gupta told me last week that the idea was to initially get a good functional twitter client out, and then iterate. They intend to roll out features like geolocation information, and the posting and browsing of photographs (some apps integrate services like Twitpic). There's also a plan to add support for Nokia touch screen phones. Gupta said that they'll look at understanding usage patterns better - what users do, where do they drop off, why do they drop off, what is the frequency of updates etc. The product design will need be different for people who follow 800 people (like I do), those who follow maybe 10-20 people. Spice Labs has also launched another Twitter application since, called Bollywood Tweets, which allows them to follow Twitter updates from Bollywood film stars. Several…
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