With the release of Tweetie 2.1 today, Tweetie is and has been for a long time the best Twitter app for your iPhone. It’s phenomenal and combines two fundamental elements together, function and style. This is why I love it.

So you’re probably thinking why pay the extra $4.20 NZD for an app with a bit more functionality, after all all I want to do is tweet. I’ll tell you why. Instead of writing about all the awesome features of Tweetie, I’ll list my five favourite features. If you want the full list check it out.

Swipe

I absolutely love this feature. Simply swipe either  in the right or left direction over a tweet and a bunch of options will appear.
As shown to the left heaps of options appear that lets you do just about anything you want to with a tweet. You can first click to reply to the tweet, the most common option. If the tweet includes a link you can press the paperclip icon and you will be given secondary options to open, mail, repost or Instapaper the link. The multitude of options avalible allows you to do just about anything you want with the link. Thirdly and fourthy options are given to either view the persons profile or favourite the tweet. The last option allows you retweet, mail and translate the tweet.

Being given all these options from the Tweetie home screen is truly revolutional and adds a totally new dimension and ease of use to Twitter clients for the iPhone.

Composing a Tweet

So this must appear fairly basic right? All you need is some blank space and a keyboard? Wrong. Tweetie adds in all the great features you’ve always wanted.

If you’re out and want to take a snap or video it’s easy as clicking the camera button then pressing capture or record. You can also add a photo from your photo libary, geotag your tweet, find usernames, hashtags and even shrink urls. With all these features literally at your fingertips you can achieve so much without having to leave the composition screen.

This functionality and much more is shown and displayed in Tweetie 2.

Massive Third Party Support

Tweetie 2 provides a huge variety of third party clients that you can use within the app, some of which include Twitpic, yFrog, Mobypicture, Tweetphoto, Twitgoo, img.ly, Twitvid, Posterous, Vid.ly, Twitlonger, Follow Cost, Tweet Blocker, Favstar.fm, TextExpander, Read it Later, Instapaper, What The Trend, Birdhouse, bit.ly, TinyURL, is.gd, I.pr, u.nu, Linkyy, Overlapr, Favrd, Tweeteorites and much more!

That’s an insane amount of third party clients to add to an iPhone Twitter app and pretty much all the added extras you will ever need!

Refresh

This is a small but totally awesome feature.  Instead of looking for that small icon to refresh your Twitter stream or shake to refresh therby damaging your iPhone, Tweetie provides and easy and intuitive way to refresh your tweets.

Simply drag your finger vertically down and release to refresh. It’s that simple! Your stream is automatically reloaded with the newest tweets you want and it is extremely easy to refresh.

Trends

This feature does what its title says it does. It shows the most popular trends on Twiter right now. This is very useful to know what is going on right at any moment by what people are tweeting about.

Sure, any other iPhone Twitter app includes this feature but not to the extent that Tweetie does. You can save the trend, search throughout it and what I find awesome is definitions of the trend are automatically source from What The Trend, therefore if you don’t exactly know why a topic is trending you can tap one button and find out!

So while I love Tweetie 2, push and chat bubbles back would be an even better improvement!

You should download Tweetie 2 right now! It costs less than a cup of coffee.

Follow me on Twitter at @antbs and share your thoughts about Tweetie 2 for iPhone in the comments.

So as most of you will know back in July I got myself a brand new black iPhone 3GS 16gb. The iPhone is simply amazing, I could never go back to another phone. The iPhone’s level of intuitivness as well as a great combination of hardware and software makes it the ultimate phone. The iPhone really is more than a phone, it acts as a computer as all my normal tasks on the computer can be accomplished on this phone.

A huge motivating factor in my purchasing of an iPhone was apps. In my opinion this is what sets it apart from any other phone. Thousands of apps exist on the App Store which can accomplish pretty much all the tasks you would want to do. the iPhone is truely the phone that has changed all others.

As shown that is my first page of apps. You can find my full pages here.

Apps are great, I love them. They are carefully made, beautiful and easy to use. Where else to show how much I love them than my blog!

So over the next wee while I’ll be reviewing post by post my top ten favourite iPhone apps! (Bearing in mind I do have exams on next week.)

So I’m sure you’re wondering what are my favourite apps? Well here they are in the order I’ll be reviewing them in:

1. Tweetie
2. Facebook
3. Doodle Jump
4. LogMeIn
5. NotifyMe
6. MobileRSS
7. SBSettings
8. CameraBag
9. Wordpress
10. Dropbox

As each post is written and published a link will appear here as well on the relevant app I have reviewed.

Review number one: Tweetie will be published later this week!

Any other favourite apps you want reviewed? Post a comment!

World Wide Developers Conference is coming this Monday the 9 of June and the long anticipated arrival of the 3G iPhone has circled around with many rumours. Firstly Vodafone announced a month ago that they would sell the iPhone in ten different countries this year including New Zealand. This is very exciting, we havn’t ever seen the light of the iPhone if it isn’t hacked. Everyone is hoping that his will be the 3G iPhone. Why would’nt it be? After all is Vodafone so backward that they wouldnt give us the new version? I hope not?

As you may know any first Generation product isnt going to be perfect and this was the case with the iPhone. The iPhone only had a 2 Megapixel camera with no flash or video recording qualities, no GPS, no 3G etc.

The features I would like to see with the new iPhone would be:

• At least a 4 Megapixel Camera with flash
• Video recording qualities
• Flash built in with Safari
• Third Generation technology (3G)
• GPS functionality
• Radio

What would you like to see in the next iPhone?