I’m a little bit jealous of how nice and simple this app is.
Here’s the explanation:
It’s a Clock humanises the measurement of time to provide us with a scale more suited to the realities of life.
Basically if the time is 8.28 the display say’s “nearly eight thirty”. Lovely.
Download from app store or click here.
[Via @JeniRoger]
During a global viral pandemic, there is no question that the quickest and most effective way to inform the public is by using mobile phones. It has the ability not only to save peoples lives but also to combat the virus being spread by providing real time alerts and information.
Initiatives such as Project Masiluleke shows that a simple SMS message to millions of people can raise awareness to levels that TV and radio cannot. Eventually this leads to prevention.
The clever guys Harvard Medical School hope to achieve the same thing with their new iPhone App, Swine Flu Center. It features everything you need to educate yourself about swine flu including video guides, symptom checks, hotlines to call in case of an emergency (based on your location) and a ‘Health Map’ showing the state of the epidemic in your area. All this for $1.99.
Found this video on Intomobile and it perfectly recreates the Ovi Store experience I had in the first few weeks of it’s launch.
I’ve wrote about how bad the Nokia Ovi Store is compared to the Apple App Store but now with the power of video I can share that experience with you.
Check out the consumer vs Ovi Store:
Nokia recently revealed the absolute ass-whooping the Ovi Store is receiving in comparison to the iPhone App Store.
The announcement at Nokia World confirmed that since May 26th, users have downloaded 10 million pieces of content from the Ovi Store. Compare this to iPhone App Store which surpassed 100 million downloads in the first two months and 1.5 billion after a year. The Ovi Store supports 100 Nokia devices and the iPhone App Store supports, wait for it…2.
Now remember ‘pieces of content’ doesn’t just mean apps but also lame things like ringtones, wallpapers, etc count too. I wonder how much of that 10 million is actual apps?
The Ovi Store had huge technical problems on the first day, Nokia underestimated the demand and consequently suffered outages meaning that for many people, it was over before it started.
The technical issues weren’t the only problems with the Ovi Store user experience. The Ovi Store requires the CRAZY backwards step of having to find, download and install the Ovi Store client before you can use it.
If I wasn’t a mobile phone enthusiast I would have given up on the Ovi Store the very first day it was launched. Apart from the Nokia server problems it took around 3 tries and 40 minutes to set up on my phone. The end result was a clunky and slow store with some poor quality applications that neither provided a good service or enhanced the handset. Read More
Mastercard have released an iPhone app called ‘Priceless Picks‘ in conjunction with their agencies McCann Erickson and MRM which integrates with the ‘Priceless’ TV ads.
It’s actually quite a nice dynamic, social app which uses your location to show the nearest ‘priceless’ deals that other consumers have pointed out.
Deals are indicated by bubbles on a map, you simply tap on it to get more information. If you happen to find a priceless deal or place you want to share you can tag it to your current location and add further details.
I like how much effort has gone into this app to tie it in with the ‘Priceless’ proposition. The user generated aspect is cool too, although I wonder if the app will have enough ‘picks’ to still be useful if the amount of users is low.
It would be great if users got a discount at these places for using Mastercard or something so there is a reason to keep using the app.
The app is free to download.
Over the last 4 to 5 years a monster has been slowly created as mobile phone companies make their phones better and more feature rich. Mp3 and loudspeaker capabilities have now become standard in even the most budget models meaning that every kid and teenager is armed with a mini annoying ghetto blaster.
If you live in London you have no doubt seen teenagers on the bus, train, wall outside the off license playing crappy sounding tunes from their phones. Ever wondered why they do this when the phone probably came with headphones/handsfree? Read More
Mobile phones are becoming more and more tightly integrated with our online social lives, services such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter can be accessed instantly on our handsets. However the majority of users use an app or their browser to keep updated with these sites.
The next step is full integration with the core functionality of your phone, by this I mean phone calls, contacts, text messaging and even the calendar, camera and music player.
For example, you probably have a large amount of your phone contacts on Facebook, many phones have the capability of adding a photo for your contact that appears when they call but how many people have a picture of all their friends on their phone? If your phone could sync with Facebook you could instantly grab everyone’s photo when they call.
Another example is your friends birthdays listed on Facebook, these could be synced with the calendar on your phone and so on.. Read More
