maanantai 6. kesäkuuta 2011

Screensavers for Symbian^3 devices

For some time now I've been waiting for downloadable screen-savers to arrive into Nokia's Ovi store. I hate the ones delivered within the device. Quite recently, Nokia published a new, pink N8 device with pre-installed "Pink Neon Clock"- utility which I instantly thought to be a new, nicer screen-saver. It wasn't !! It was a basic application which was advertised to "Easily be accessed by leaving it running on the background when locking the phone" ... I was wordless.... Well, if someone is willing to pay for that kind of crap, maybe someone would pay something for REAL screensaver as well.

Me and my friend decided to try and started working on new screensaver base which would be actually usable. Our goal was to make the savers look nice and still consume as little power as possible.. We succeeded pretty well. Our screensaver's take about 120-140mw of power (It runs about 2-3 days without reloading: This is the same than with OEM-screensavers) and the look, well, ... The beauty is in the eye of the observer: Your call. These our our first ones. A series of neon clocks in all of the "Nokia N8" colours:








We also made a quite nice banner for advertising. I'm not sure will it ever be actually visible in Ovi store, but nevertheless, it's there:



Later we enlarged the selection with a little different saver as well. Here is "dotclock". Very nice in my eyes. Reminds me of Terminator meets Fallout - style ;)




In our SVN- there are some more unpublished content still waiting for us to see is it worth publishing..

The screen-savers are on the Ovi store and you can buy your own copy from there. Our channel is:
http://store.ovi.com/publisher/peekpoke/