Tuesday, 29 June 2010
final testing of the free app in iOS4
so everything looks good for the free app and almost everything is working perfectly, a few more tweaks under the hood and we're good to go. We have just tested the latest build under iOS4 and it is very fast on a 3Gs phone and has no additional bugs or crashes or tweaks than already underway. This is great news and means the free app could be ready for release VERY soon. Exciting times ahead...we are just figuring the strategy for release dates, timeframe between free and paid releases and testing is still needed for the paid app (which is more complicated as it submits data to the server and synchronises)...we will keep you posted!
Monday, 28 June 2010
more testing and iPhone 4 with iOS4
Our App
we continue to graft away heartily, fine honing the app and tweaking it to make it as user friendly as possible and as intuitive an interface as possible! we are so near and testing will sooon begin under iOS4 and for the paid app which will interact with the web application (the tricky bit!!!)
iPhone4
this thing looks superb, the fit and finish and quality of construction goes way bove anything I have seen on a mobile phone before. The screen is superb with the colour rendition and the camera sharpness and focussing look to be great improvements.
iOS4
this is as big a leap forward as the phone is from 3Gs, very cool and much better for organising your apps.
Issues
I know we have heard about some screen issues with yellow and brown spots, apparantly it goes after a few days as it is a glue setting and curing fully. We have also heard these things about holding the bottom left corner, I havent seen this happen yet but Steve Jobs says they are working on a software update to handle it, meanwhile, stop holding it in your left hand tightly under your palm!
we continue to graft away heartily, fine honing the app and tweaking it to make it as user friendly as possible and as intuitive an interface as possible! we are so near and testing will sooon begin under iOS4 and for the paid app which will interact with the web application (the tricky bit!!!)
iPhone4
this thing looks superb, the fit and finish and quality of construction goes way bove anything I have seen on a mobile phone before. The screen is superb with the colour rendition and the camera sharpness and focussing look to be great improvements.
iOS4
this is as big a leap forward as the phone is from 3Gs, very cool and much better for organising your apps.
Issues
I know we have heard about some screen issues with yellow and brown spots, apparantly it goes after a few days as it is a glue setting and curing fully. We have also heard these things about holding the bottom left corner, I havent seen this happen yet but Steve Jobs says they are working on a software update to handle it, meanwhile, stop holding it in your left hand tightly under your palm!
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Quick Estimate - pre-release
pre-release information
Quick Estimate is a new app for small/medium sized business/tradesmen and enables a quick estimate to be created on your iphone and submitted to our servers where you can log in later at home or the office and print out that estimate. This could save hundreds of thousands of man hours translating dictation or scrawled notes. The free version is email estimates only and the paid version has multiple features including the web application use and 12 months of archived searchable estimates
Quick Estimate is a new app for small/medium sized business/tradesmen and enables a quick estimate to be created on your iphone and submitted to our servers where you can log in later at home or the office and print out that estimate. This could save hundreds of thousands of man hours translating dictation or scrawled notes. The free version is email estimates only and the paid version has multiple features including the web application use and 12 months of archived searchable estimates
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
another build, more UDID's and iPhone 4 keynote
Another Build;
the guys sent me over another build and things are looking real neat and tidy, slick and very intuitive. I can't thank these guys enough, if you need a team to work with on an application or even a web application they are pretty fast, responsive and have heaps of creativity and initiative. The app is almost 100% fully functional, a few minor kinks and things to iron out. Adding estimates is a whizz and adding to estimates is a whizz too. With this in mind we are adding UDID (the unique identifier number each device has) to our provisioning portal, a developer is allowed 99 devices for a larger group of testers and we have about 10 so far and adding more as we go. Now that the free version of the app isreaching final stages we want to expand the test group and put the thing out in the field for live testing very soon,
iPhone 4 Keynote
what a great keynote by Steve jobs and what excellent steps forward the 4th phone is taking. The thing I love about Apple is that they are putting the millions back into the company to move design, engineering and creativity forwards in software and hardware, something you never saw Microsoft do to the same extreme (they had bad OS after bad OS in the late nineties). Even the iOS itself (branded so that it canapply to phone and pad alike) is leaping forwards and really making the wannabe copy iPhones on the market look like a shim sham effort. The screen and the Apple made chip are the big news to me (i've had a test OS4 for a while now) but in conjunction with the materials it is made with and what's under the hood AND the OS, this is really the package to beat. It has been the package to beat for 3 years now and they just raised the bar in a big big way!
the guys sent me over another build and things are looking real neat and tidy, slick and very intuitive. I can't thank these guys enough, if you need a team to work with on an application or even a web application they are pretty fast, responsive and have heaps of creativity and initiative. The app is almost 100% fully functional, a few minor kinks and things to iron out. Adding estimates is a whizz and adding to estimates is a whizz too. With this in mind we are adding UDID (the unique identifier number each device has) to our provisioning portal, a developer is allowed 99 devices for a larger group of testers and we have about 10 so far and adding more as we go. Now that the free version of the app isreaching final stages we want to expand the test group and put the thing out in the field for live testing very soon,
iPhone 4 Keynote
what a great keynote by Steve jobs and what excellent steps forward the 4th phone is taking. The thing I love about Apple is that they are putting the millions back into the company to move design, engineering and creativity forwards in software and hardware, something you never saw Microsoft do to the same extreme (they had bad OS after bad OS in the late nineties). Even the iOS itself (branded so that it canapply to phone and pad alike) is leaping forwards and really making the wannabe copy iPhones on the market look like a shim sham effort. The screen and the Apple made chip are the big news to me (i've had a test OS4 for a while now) but in conjunction with the materials it is made with and what's under the hood AND the OS, this is really the package to beat. It has been the package to beat for 3 years now and they just raised the bar in a big big way!
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