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So since my last entry, my Nokia useage has waned somewhat in favour of my recently-purchased HipTop Slide. While I was thinking of getting another phone or changing my contract to keep the number, the lure of unlimited text messaging was a little too much to ignore. I still, however use it for some newly-purchased applications here and there.

The main one I’ve been using of these is Gravity, a Symbian/S60 client for Twitter. You can do everything you need to in Twitterland (including upload photos to Twitpic and a few other places) and a few other odds and ends. It also supports multiple accounts, themes, custom tabs and the ability to connect to another service known as Laconica which I’m unfamiliar with.

While it took a bit of fiddling, Gravity is one of the most intuitive and easy to use applications I’ve had the pleasure of dealing with. My main problem is that searching through your friends list is a bit of a pain, but that could be more of a PEBKAC error than a fault on the application’s part.

However, this little package of awesome comes with a pricetag of AUD$12.71 as of this writing. Not all that expensive, but if you’re one without disposable income or prefer a free Twitter experience, one may be turned off by the price.

The other application on the list is RDMPlus. RDMPlus is a remote desktop application that allows you to connect to a computer with the required desktop client. At first it all looks a bit daunting, but configuration and setup is pretty easy when it comes down to it.

The program itself is set up pretty well for use in a mobile client, and -with some shortcut modifications, I could do pretty much anything I wanted as if I was sitting at my computer… That is, if I wasn’t retarded and set up RocketDock to handle most of my programs.

That’s not to say the program is a breeze to use. I’ve noticed a bug where the application stops allowing you to zoom in and out, and a lot of commands are menu-based. There are ways around having to go into menus to do things, but it takes a little bit of work to set up it seems.

The one major gripe I do have is the cost. It’s US$34.95 for the full license and unless you’re actually in the market for a program like RDMPlus, the novelty wears off pretty damn quickly.

At the end of the day, RDMPlus is a pretty good program. Does what it’s supposed to and aside from the occasional glitch, not much has gone wrong with it when I’ve used it. I do, however recommend you have a data plan or are near a wireless network when you use it though. RDMPlus eats up a fair bit of data, and you’re going to rack up a pretty meaty phonebill otherwise.