There are so many US centric applications available already in App Store which are really great and most of them are free. But there were no applications targeted Indians to use this great technology with their Mobile experience. The following apps are great and simple to start with and the updates are getting posted quite often. These applications are more towards what users requested and wanted rather than what the developer thinks.
India News - This application provides simple UI for reading news from various sources. Particularly Indians check The Hindu, Times of India, and other sites quite often. But considering other free RSS readers, you may need to configure them and set lots of other options for you to get a feel of a seperate software to read news related to India. It’s almost like Outlook email folder after they start growing. This small application targets only those newspapers which are specific for India and it has lots of cool features. It stores the stories for a daily use. Loading will be faster or you can read it when you are not in a coverage area. Good if you have limited Data Plan. Also, you can read lots of other pages from those favorite news papers. Lot more to come. Keep checking the site at URL.
Cricket - This is a game which stays all the time with Indian Blood. Most of the people in India listen or track cricket all the time. There are several paid Scoring application using SMS and Web. What if you are driving and wanted to spend less and get the scores right on your phone. There is this simple solution which provides Live Cricket scores in a simple way from CricInfo feed. It’s a 2 minute delayed content and you can have it refresh automatically or manually. It’s really cool to jump into the site when you require more information. Also, it provides news from other sources like ABC Australia, BBC and more to come. This application caches the headlines from those feeds on a daily basic. So, if you are traveling to a place with low signal or wanted not to use mobile minutes, this is a great choice. Check it out at URL.
Tamil Daily - This is a one page application which make the life easy when you wanted to see Tamil calendar immediately when you are not close to one. It has the daily sheets scanned and displayed from the wall calendar. It covers year 2008 and you can easily navigate from day to day or month to month. Simple way is to swipe left or right to move forward or backward. Very simple to use and a handy tool. Please check here for more information.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Check out this company based in Karnataka, India which is developing India specific applications for the iPhone. THey have announced that they will be releaseing five games by September and a bouquet of other applications based on Bollywood, spirituality and Location-based service.
Check out this article for more info
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:35 am
I didn’t see any link on your comments. Please update it with the URL. I appreciate your feedbac.
I have a mixed feeling about Indian Market at this stage. We are expected to sell only 8000/year. Also, there is a weird behavior with people using iPhone apps these days. They are rude. They think they deserve more for a $1. Also, they think that every application (paid) makes million dollars. Honestly. i wanted to make few applications available for indians when they release it in India. But i put a price tag of $1 for few applications where i tried to get into this technology for the past 1 year. I wanted to get the money i invested so far from those apps. What happened was, i sold only less than 50 items or way low on each of them and i saw everyone commenting on making it free. I guess there is a different tone set there and it’s not gonna stay for a longer period. I drop my idea of monetizing this way and choose a different way. I already submitted scaled down versions of all these applications and they will be available soon. Good luck for that company to take money in that small segment. Particularly, if they think that they will be able to sell it more from non-resident indians, they have to rethink. Reality is different.
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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August 25th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Sad to know that your apps didn’t fare well when you tried selling
Here’s a list of Top 10 Best Applications for your iPhone 3G in India
Cheers!!
Jason
September 19th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Tamil Daily is not selling at all. I am keeping that like a Free Open Source application.