Awful thing. Takes an age to start up and load Tweets, even when, as we were, you’re sitting in bed connected via wi-fi. YapYap! Lite uses the standard web-based Twitter Allow/Deny window to manage its login process, which means it’s way too big for Android phone screens – so users have to resize or scroll the screen before even signing in.
Not a good first impression, plus it also crashed several times on launch for us. And when it finally did launch… it’s not exactly pretty. It is exactly ugly.
There’s a pleasingly unedited video of YapYap! in action here, where you can see precisely how slow and clumsy the login process is. It doesn’t even FIT on the screen.
The one positive observation we have to make about YapYap! is this; it’s nice that you can define what happens when you click on a Tweet in the timeline – and the default option of opening up an “@” reply is very thoughtful.
But it looks awful and is a bit of a mess elsewhere. Sorry, the developers, but this one’s already in whatever the Android equivalent of the recycle bin is called. It’s been uninstalled, is what we mean. Uninstalled with GUSTO.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
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