Offscreen Technology have just released a touch enabled version of Elements, their periodic table application (it's available in the Ovi Store). Making best use of the letterbox screen size of the 5800, the app presents the always useful periodic table of elements, nicely colour coded to keep elemental groupings together, as well as allowing you to tap through on each element to gain additional information.
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Nice find! I already bought some other stuff from offscreen, and they seem to be one of the most active studies on ovi store so far, replicating a lot of what made the AppStore so successful - small, fun and nicely priced applications that just work. Two thumbs up!
All of Offscreen's stuff on Ovi Store is excellent, it's fast, looks slick and makes good use of the S60 5th touchscreen interface.
They've done loads of apps for the service so far, about 30 or 40, so the development process they're using is clearly very fast:
http://www.offscr.com/products.html
Most of the products labelled as coming soon have already been published, I've reviewed many of them over on Ovi Gaming.
Also interesting to see them doing eBooks for Ovi Store.
Btw, if its free, what's the motivation for a (I assume) commercial programming house like them? Just to gain name recognition and to practise programming apps for the device/platform?
They get some recognition and get their names out there for anyone looking to commission an application/game also they sell a few apps/games also, having had a quick look at their site. Oh yus, they probably also act as adverts for what their Origo IDE can be used for.
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Btw, if its free, what's the motivation for a (I assume) commercial programming house like them? Just to gain name recognition and to practise programming apps for the device/platform?
Not all of their software is free, some of it is 1 euro, some of it is 3 euros. Also, some of the free stuff is a cut down version of non-free stuff.
I think they're trying a variety of prices and methods, to see which ones work best on Ovi Store. The freeware would be to get people's attention, the demos would be to drive sales, the commercial stuff would make some money directly, and all of these would contribute to promoting Origo.
Also, they do commercial custom applications for other people, so these apps could be seen as adverts for their services.
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Have you made sure you've selected the right phone at the top of the screen? If the Ovi Store cookie is set to a non-compatible phone you'll get this message from external links to an app.
All the gripes about Ovi are quite unjustified. It's an App store that can't be compared to Apple's as it caters for numerous devices. Samsung are attempting to do the same, and I'm sure it will take a year at least for them both to become fully functional.
No doubt it's all set to Tom Lehrer's classic ditty about same!