We Get Signal. Main Screen Turn On.
While we anxiously await the results of Matt’s judging, I thought I might point out something interesting I’ve noticed. WPhone has been out in the wild for a couple of weeks here and I’ve noticed that quite a few sites are starting to link back to us, a most welcome outcome, to be sure. What has really surprised me, though, has been the level of international interest we’ve been garnering.
For instance, we’ve gotten English-language attention from Philoking, Qualitypeoples, Switchblog, Awsom.org, iPhones in RTP, and AppSafari, among others. In addition to those, though, we’ve been picked up by iPhoneClub.nl (Dutch), Another Pinky Punky (French) (translated), Bloggerpl.com (Polish), Blogwinkel (German), and iFun.de/iPhone (German) (translated).
What could explain this interest? I’m betting our commitment to i18n’ing our plugin as well as the overall greater use and interest mobile browsing gets in non-US countries could account for a good bit of the interest.
Good things, all-around. Here’s to hoping we win!
I’d venture it probably has to do with our lite interface too. Most of the international users seem to be using the app on Nokia (Symbian), Blackberries and Windows Mobile phones, except in Canada where most are submitting feedback for the iPod Touch (thx to all). :)
See two new screenshots posted over at Another Pinky Punky:
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/4019/wphonefp6.jpg
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4600/wphone2wb5.jpg
Thanks for the link back, and much success on the new WPhone plugin.