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Episode #13: Review of Echofon (with Nifty Tech Blog)

Posted by Twitter's Tee Morris | Posted in Podcast, TwitReviews, Twitter Topics | Posted on 16-08-2010

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Following a deep dive into Tweet Flow, Bird House Rules, with special guest Nifty Tech Blog in studio, take a close look at Echofon for the iPad. This review is the beginning of “Old Friends Revisited” as Doc Coleman and I bring up some familiar names of smartphone clients now working to make their mark on Apple’s latest innovation.

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This episode is part of the Bird House Rules-Nifty Tech Blog miniseries on iPad clients for Twitter. For the next few months, we will be featuring reviews on iPad clients, some of which you might be seeing in the Second Editions of All a Twitter and Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in Ten Minutes!

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Comments (4)

My companion review of Echofon can be found at http://www.niftytechblog.com/2010/08/echofon-pro-for-twitter-crossover.html. Hope everyone is enjoying both the podcast and the review!

Doc

These comments cover both the podcast review here and over on the Nifty Tech Blog.

Wow, you guys left out so many features that make this a great client like push notifications and how you can set a timeframe where they are disabled. Also, Yfrog isn’t even an option when attaching images much less the default.

Also, I know how Tee didn’t like how the settings are navigated but I like how they’ve broken the settings into global and user categories. Did you notice how you can have different push notification settings per account? How cool is that? Without looking you can know which account is being engaged in a DM or @message.

When you select a tweet the nifty menu appears with the More option at the end and if you select More a new set of options are displayed. It was mentioned there’s no way to get back to the first set of options. But there is. While the second set are displayed simply touch the tweet. Pretty Nifty, no?

While the way Echofon tracks and displays threaded conversations is nice it fails in one regard. It’s missing a Reply To All function. To make matters more confusing, if you tap the reply icon (BTW, you guys use the term click as if you’re using a mouse. You must unlearn what you have learned. ;^) It’s a touch device, get used to saying touch or tap.) what happens is you are defaulted to replying to the LAST tweet in the thread which may not be tweet you selected to view the converation!

Hopefully they’ll fix these and other oddities in future updates. Unfortunately, since I started tweeting just over a year ago at the encouragement of non other than TeeMonster, I’ve long since progress to the point where a nice client like Echofon no longer meets my needs. However, though it doesn’t meet my needs as a client to tweet from I do keep it installed just for the Push Notifications!! So when I get the alert I simply launch my current client of choice. I won’t say which it is. Wouldn’t want to influence your review list. I look forward to your future reviews. You two work well as a team.

I live for feedback like this.

And yes, Orion, you are SO right…I was listening to us both struggle between “click” and “tap”.

We might have missed a few things in our deep dives of Echofon, I admit, but thanks for the detailed and passionate reply. We do have more to come.

I could have done without the “um”s and the “uh, uh”s. I get those done and I’ll work on “click” and “tap”. :D

We recorded twice with alcohol and got great audio that never made it. Record once without it and I sound brain dead. *sigh*

Doc

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