Mmin, Awesome application and brilliant features. Nevertheless, based on my experience in mobile apps, I thought I could provide you some thoughts to make use of all the efforts you put into it in order to transform it into something really useful, if you were to pursue which I really advise you to do. In general calculator applications with basic features are predominately available on almost any device. However, the reason for not seeing too many innovations in this area is based on market demands; most users needs are achieved by the basic operations including math operators and some unit conversion already available by any of these apps, and hence potentially the ADC judging rational. As such, here's a list of Use Cases / Features / strategies to help you build on your work; - Your application can be easily repositioned for different verticals while focusing on specific user segments with feature developed accordingly. As it stands, it seems mainly science students may find real value in your application. Therefore developing features more focused on this category of the market would be one good approach. In this aspect, one could imagine an application with built-in set of formulas and examples for different topic. In this approach, student of a specific course can easily select a topic to list all associated formulas and definition of each parameter with capability of real time simulation and displays of results and graphs. Educational tools that can enhance the learning process by allowing students to focuses on understanding and applying the maths and physics of theory with real time visualization can well be adopted by the market. I had research grant during my grad school to develop similar PC software for robotic courses. - Additionally, one can easily visualize another extension to above application by adding a connected aspect through Bluetooth, WIFI or 3G... In this scenario, students are able to share formulas or solutions as P2P or centrally driven from a server that can be controlled by another application (lets say a teacher) and shared with others (students). On a personal note, I can see a mobile Maple business case possibility (if you're familiar with this products). - Another vertical to focus on can be the financial market including other derivatives like brokers. I developed an application back in late 90s for the Palm that provided easy tool to perform monthly payment, amortization, brokering and I got lots of interests in that area. In this aspect, you can easily revise your application to provide all sets of formulas and tools to quickly perform specific business logic needed for this market. - One good vertical may be the currency and time conversion as you already started. Nevertheless this is not enough these days as it's a mature market. Therefore one should bring real useful enhancement to raise demands for such application. I can see many feature in this aspect, nevertheless the idea is to verticalize the application and make it more focused on specific market while bringing a whole set of value added... - Other area for the app may be in the space of measure instrumentation. One could imagine the application enhanced to include image capture capability in order to provide different type of surface measurements and then required quantity of materials (lets say paints, cements, soil... just imagine the application) that can serve different type of users.
Just some thoughts on a rare vacation day hopping to help... Regards, Elie On May 15, 10:08 am, mmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My submission is not a new idea, it's just a calculator like which is > available on every handset. I just want it to be the most amazing one. > Like many of your submissions, it didnot win the challenge. > I am confused and depressed in the past week. I don't know whether > such an application about calculation meets the requirement. If people > don't need calculator, why most cellphones have one on them. > I feel it has lost it's means and it's future since it lost the > challenge. What could I do now? Anyone give me some suggestions? > > My project is called handyCalc, it's > website:http://handycalc.wordpress.com(download also > available)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wjLfImVf2U --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to android-challenge@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
