14 Day evaluation of "mctraveller" now available

[Guest Simon Desser]

A free 14 day evaluation version of "mctraveller" is available for "unlocked" Smartphones from tapandgo.com

Here's what they say:-

PLEASE NOTE :

THIS PRE-RELEASE VERSION IS FOR UNLOCKED SMARTPHONES ONLY

THE RELEASE VERSION WILL BE CODE SIGNED

Whether you travel alone or with others, make room for one more. mcTraveller is the perfect traveling companion and now runs on your Microsoft SmartPhone.

mcTraveller has full multilingual support for English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. With mcTraveller you will always know the time in any of over 230 cities, with another 50,000 available via an internet connection from your device e.g GPRS. For any of these cities you can get a detailed weather forecast, so you will always know what to pack.

To make sure you get to where you need to be, you can set alarms for any of your four favorite cities and organize your tasks and itinerary so you are always organized. Once you reach your destination, the handy currency conversion tool means you will always know how much you are spending and of course, everything is customizable, so you can have a choice of impressive clock faces and even choose the color of your clocks hands. All this and much, much more....

With mcTraveller you can :-

Track the time in up to 4 major cities from around the world.

Perform an internet city lookup helping you add to the default database of over 200 world cities. The lookup supports over 26,000 US cities and 32,000 international cities

Set alarms in your time zone or any time zone for any city - now with a snooze feature !!

Understand who's in daylight and who's in darkness with mcTraveller's real-time, world daylight map.

Get weather forecasts for today, 48 hours or 5 days ahead, for any city in mcTraveller's database.

See international dial codes.

See what cities respect daylight savings time.

Make schedules and trip itineraries

Do all your currency conversions - now with internet update !!

Configure your interface.

Sync your device time with an internet atomic clock.

The FREE 14 day pre-release version is available for download now.

When released mcTraveller for SmartPhone will be just $9.99

This is a limited special offer. Normal price $14.99

Please note :

(1) THIS VERSION WILL ONLY INSTALL ON UNLOCKED DEVICES

(2) THE RELEASE VERSION WILL BE CODE SIGNED

(3) YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO UNINSTALL THE PRE-RELEASE AND INSTALL THE RELEASE VERSION IF PURCHASED

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[Guest ozute]

UNREAL!! This looks like to be a top seller, and I'm so glad it's going to be signed! Well done :)

[Guest Pagemakers]

It's too slow to use well :)

I would prefer if they sold the modules seperately, especially the weather module (even better if they had an aviation weather plugin).

[Guest spacemonkey]

Works fine for me... it's a bit slow when you are picking cities off a list, but you don't change cities that often.

Why would I want seperate modules? Surely paying a straing £10 (initial offer) for all modules would be better than buying them individually for like £5 each?

[Guest Pagemakers]

I only say that cos it's only the weather module I am interested in.

Maybe not having the whole thing installed would make it faster.

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest FrankyG]

One of the options in the alarm's screen is 'Wake Device' ooohh... but no..it doesn't :evil: That's a pity, that would have been a great and much wanted feature. I like it though, it's not slow for me either, weather and currency updates worked very smoothly also. I'll probably buy it.

HTH

FrankyG

[Guest Simon Desser]

I think it rocks :!:

The currency converter's brilliant, downloading exchange rates, insteading of keying them in yourself is well cool :)

[Guest FizzSoftware]

I only say that cos it's only the weather module I am interested in.

We are seriously considering a separate weather spin-off application. Our partner supplying the weather stream has a whole host of weather data that we are looking in to.

If we were to release a weather only version - the cost would still be around $9.99 - access to excellent weather data, updated hourly for 56,000 cities world wide costs :)

We would be very interested in users who feel this product would be worth while.

As for your issues with the speed - please let me know which areas you feel are slow and we'll take a look.

[Guest fozzie]

Installed the demo about an hour ago and pretty impressed. I can see this one staying on my SPV :) It's really useful.

FizzSoftware - I can't seem to change cities on the weather page? Or rather, I can change the city in the selection box to any of the 4 selected cities, but the weather info doesn't change to that city until I hit 'Fetch Forecasts'. I would have thought that when you do a 'Fetch Forecast', it does it for the four cities?

One other minor bug - the default time zone for Pretoria is incorrect. It should be '(GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria' which doesn't have Daylight Saving, and not '(GMT+02:00) Athens, Istanbul, Minsk' which does have DST.

Other than that, it looks really good. ;)

[Guest FrankyG]

FizzSoftware - I can't seem to change cities on the weather page?  Or rather, I can change the city in the selection box to any of the 4 selected cities, but the weather info doesn't change to that city until I hit 'Fetch Forecasts'.  I would have thought that when you do a 'Fetch Forecast', it does it for the four cities?

I can confirm that this indeed is the case, surely a bug? NOT GOOD if you have to download a weather update every time you want to change city :?: Other than that, no problems.

[Guest ozute]

FrankyG - I am with you on the 'wake device' option - that would be unreal if it could do that. Are you saying that the option is there but it doesn't work?

[Guest FizzSoftware]

I can confirm that this indeed is the case, surely a bug? NOT GOOD if you have to download a weather update every time you want to change city :?: Other than that, no problems.

We currently only store weather for a single city, but seeing various comments I will add an option to fetch the weather for all four main cities.

This may not make the release - we are now bound by time with the code signing - it will be a free update later.

The reasons : The download for a single city is around 7K, fetching more data will cost more depending on your GPRS tarrif. Speed was the other concern, GPRS ( well mine ) is still not dymanic.

We welcome all comments and suggestions.

[Guest FizzSoftware]

FrankyG - I am with you on the 'wake device' option - that would be unreal if it could do that. Are you saying that the option is there but it doesn't work?

Please leave this with me - I will take a look.

[Guest Pagemakers]

We are seriously considering a separate weather spin-off application. Our partner supplying the weather stream has a whole host of weather data that we are looking in to.

I would love a weather only application, easpecially if you could include aviation weather (TAFS & METARS).

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Please leave this with me - I will take a look.

I would be very surprised if this did work as you would somehow need the OS to be running when the phone is powered off :?

On the PPC it's possible as you don't power off the device as such.

but good luck if you can :)

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

I think someone said that the OS IS running when the phone is off? (i.e. the phone isn't actually off?)

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[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Never heard that before :? seems strange that it takes so long to start the phone up and you get a

bootscreen etc :?

[Guest fozzie]

We currently only store weather for a single city, but seeing various comments I will add an option to fetch the weather for all four main cities.

Thanks, that would be great :)

[Guest fozzie]

Just noticed a small mistake in the weather forecast display. When you select '48hrs' there is a display box that says 'first 12 hrs' and 'last 12 hrs'. I think this should be 'first 24 hrs' and 'last 24 hrs'.

[Guest FizzSoftware]

I think this should be 'first 24 hrs' and 'last 24 hrs'.

Well Spotted :)

[Guest sipper]

Paul O'B said:

I think someone said that the OS IS running when the phone is off? (i.e. the phone isn't actually off?)

I thought Paul knew everything you needed to know about the SPV (& then some more) !! :)

One of the things I like about this site is that most of the software ppl are here as well - congrats to FizzSoftware for this product. One small favour, the SPV screen is v small - any chance of putting a text legend against each of the "view" screens* so that we know where we are. I can't see the icons too well - but that may just be my tired old eyes. (I'm sure we'll get used to navigating around but this might help a bit ) ??

( * and/or, adding a "views" item to the menu as well ?)

Thx

sipper

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

I stand corrected, after speaking to MS, it really is off :)

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[Guest awarner [MVP]]

;) gloat :D

:oops: had to do it :)

[Guest fozzie]

Well Spotted :)

And don't forget to update the screenshots on your website when you change it too ;)

You've said that you will look at having an option to update the four cities weather forecasts at once, which would be great. What I have noticed though, is that if you get the forecast for one city then go to another one of the cities and get it's forecast, you cannot change back to a city that you already have the forecast for without re-downloading a forecast.

Would you be able to do something about that too? It would be good if you could change to a city and if there is already some recently downloaded weather information, it will be displayed.

Thanks for your quick replies. I think you've got a great little app here :D

[Guest FizzSoftware]

Would you be able to do something about that too?  It would be good if you could change to a city and if there is already some recently downloaded weather information, it will be displayed.

I'll have a good think about how I cache weather for additional cities and your suggestion. I'm sure we can sort something out.

I really appreciate all comments - please keep them coming.