iPhone4/N8 - social networking readiness

When I first received my N97mini, it came with a facebook widget installed. It was slow, but it always showed me the last statuses from my friends. Then it came the NM for Social Networks and NM for Chat that were available for the N97mini for a while. By that time I was using twitter and facebook in my former iPod Touch and they worked just fine. Nothing too fancy but they both were very responsive applications with enough features to make you of actually using them instead of waiting to get to your laptop or desktop computers.

The thing is, those applications are no longer available for the n97mini. And even if they were, they were slow, and had too little features. I recall having bought the n97mini because it was social-networks-ready. It was, somehow, but not enough to depend on it.

Currently, I'm using

• Twitter's, twitter for iPhone client in my iPhone4
• Facebook's facebook app in my iPhone4
• The N8-provided "Social Networks" client

all three applications provided either by the network itself of the phone manufacturer. I know there are possibly better payed clients in both sides, but I'm talking about the ones I was able to get in  a few minues, not the ones you may spend your life looking for.

The iPhone's twitter client allowed me to register (and use at the same time) all my twitter accounts: mine, my band's, my comic strip project's...  The Facebook client for the iPhone4 wouldn't let me neither register 2 facebook accounts nor manage mi band's artist page, but it allowed me to chat with my friends and update my status including photos.

The N8's social networks client... well, it' just the same I saw before in the n97mini: slow, no chat, no multiple twitter accounts at the same time, and I think that was what made my n97mini run out of battery so quickly when I was using it.

In short, my social networks experience is still much better with the iPhone4. I am using only the official twitter and facebook clients there and they're pretty much enough for all my needs, including reading and posting in japanese, too.  I still feel the N8 can provide something similar, if not better than the iPhone4's experience on that topic, but the correct, Nokia or Twitter/Facebook-provided client doesn't yet exist. I can only hope for it to become available soon enough. The hardware is enough for that (my daughter's old first generation iPod Touch can run the iPhone apps for social networks pretty good, too, and that's less powerful than the N8's), so it's not impossible.