At the risk of making this blog largely a series of plugs for PocketTransit…well, PocketTransit for Android is now available from Google Play. It will improve your life no end.
Don’t forget to give it a 5-star review now.
So anyway, yon PocketTransit app is almost ready for Android. If you fancy a sneak preview, head on over here.
So thon PocketTransit is available for Jolla phones now.
I know this whole iPhone thing is just a fad, and it will never catch on. But just incase it does, we’ve made PocketTransit available for the apple-inclined. Check out PocketTransit Pro. Makes an ideal xmas gift etc.
Det hadde gått en stund siden jeg sist spiste flesk og råkakor, ble stukket av mygg og knott, og kjøpte en haug av CDer fra gamle svenske folkartister som jeg hadde aldri hørt om før. Det måtte bety en ting: det var på tide å finne frem Ransäter-telt og kjøre sørover. Og så gjorde jeg det.
So an age ago I finally finished porting Pocket Transit to the N9. It’s over here. Much too late to get it into the N9 Nokia Store, so the Pocket Transit blog will be the only download location for the time being. There you have it.
Symbian apps have got themselves a new store for distribution by the way: the Symbian App List, where PocketTransit is also available.
Update: Pocket Transit for the N9 is now available from OpenRepos too.
So Pocket Transit has been available for the almost-dead Symbian platform for nearly 3 months now. Here is a breakdown of download stats, reviews, web-site visits etc.
There’s our downloads. 2068! What happened at the end of February to cause that bump? I don’t really know for sure. The top download locations are:
I’m not sure what happened with Iran there: did it suddenly only become available there last week for some reason? There have been very few downloads from Europe or North America, reflecting the almost non-existence of the platform in those markets. Device-wise almost half the mobiles are N8s, with the 808 taking second place. The stats site normally gives me a breakdown of devices, but that doesn’t seem to be working at the moment.
We’ve had two reviews on the Nokia Store site. One is 5-star and says “Thanks Nokia”…., the other is a fussy 1-star Russian who complains (if google translate is to be trusted) that the compass angle is 180 degrees out when it’s inverted. I think he means when it’s upside down. Which is true, and which I might fix one day…. There was actually a third one-star review there for a while, also in Russian, which charmingly said something like “Complete shite, don’t download this”, but that was eventually removed (not by me I should say – presumably some automatic profanity-filter has tracked it down and erased it).
Our blog has not been particularly busy, and absolutely nobody who has downloaded and installed the app has contacted us by email to leave comments or questions.
Conclusion: Most of the downloads are fairly random “hey let’s try this free app which looks a bit like a compass”, and few if any geologists have used the app for its intended purpose. Or if they have, they’ve been very quiet about the whole thing.
What happens now? Well the N9 version is very nearly ready, so that’ll be another obsolete platform ticked off the list. Jolla and iPhone versions are on the horizon. And although the Nokia store for Symbian is almost dead (no longer accepting new content or allowing updates of existing content), this chap has set up a new Symbian store, and one which will have update capability. So we’ll try and get it in there and see if there’s life on Symbian for a while yet.
Well, we managed it by the skin of our teeth – a matter of days before the Nokia Store closes its doors to Symbian applications. If anyone here belongs to the small but select group formed by the intersection of the sets Field Geologist and Symbian User, then you can throw away your Brunton compasses now*. Run over to the Nokia store and download Pocket Transit for your almost-obsolete smartphone, then head out to your nearest outcrop, and start measuring some strikes and dips.
Of course we are not just going to sit smugly on our laurels; we are hard at work providing the same geological smartphone experience for other obsolete platforms like Meego for the no-longer-sold Nokia N9.
And who knows, if we don’t completely lose interest, you might see it appearing for some of these new-fangled platforms like iOS and Android – just in case they catch on. Check out the Pocket Transit blog for updates.
* Of course we don’t really advocate that you throw away your Brunton.
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