Granted, if you’re young, single and sleeping with everything that moves, then you probably don’t have much use for this application. If however, you’ve … moved to the country (check), optionally got married (check), got a spare room for ‘the baby’ that doesn’t exist yet (check), had that conversation about babies (check), got pregnant (check — well, my wife has) and you’re about to give birth (check), then this is the application, Baby Countdown, is for you. It’s been created by a talented chap by the name of Victor Palau who works in the SymbianRelease Management team.
Victor writes: “I was recently reminded that it was not possible to find any apps for Symbian (Nokia, Samsung and SonyEricsson’s phones) to help pregnant woman! This is a wrong I needed to set right”
Good man! He wrote the hole thing using Nokia’s Web Runtime framework. Here’s Victor describing what it does:
“So today, I would like to introduce you to a Free Symbian Web Runtime App that helps you countdown the arrival of your baby. If you are pregnant in the UK and you are going into labour the hospital will ask you to monitor how frequent and long your contractions are before going in. However, I always thought that the last thing a expecting mum (and the dad for that matter) want to do is fire up excel as the contractions are kicking in.”
I’m going to stick this one on the Nokia N86 shortly. The application is free and you candownload it from Victor’s site. I’m not sure if he plans to put it into the Ovi Store — although he definitely should. I did a quick search and couldn’t find it there.
Happy contraction counting!
(And remember, they’re not to be called ‘contractions’, so a friend briefs me — that’s a negative term. The proper way to refer to them is as ‘surges’ apparently.)
Thanks for the review. I first had a looked at loading it to Ovi, but seems that you still have to be a register company and pay the 50 euros even for WRT apps. As these apps dont need be signed, I have uploaded it to drop.io
Thanks
Victor