Turn Your Phone Into iPhone

Turn your Symbian mobile phone into iPhone

After the official launch on Apple’s most popular product the Apple iPhone last year on the 9th of January 2007 just after the new Mac OS, a whole new market for this particular smartphone was born. That market have grown significantly over the last year and is still growing by the minute with the second version of the smartphone, iPhone 3G. Apple always focus on performance and features more than anything else and the best examples can be the iPod, the MacBook and of course the iPhone. Where is Nokia amidst all this? Why am I all of a sudden going from a Nokiaholic to an Apple geek?

Because today what I am about to publish has something to do with both of the iPhone and Nokia. After you read this post, download and install this mobile application on your Nokia symbian phones, you will not only feel that iPhone actually have a nice interface but if Nokia adopted a similar pattern with its symbian OS platform, it would have quite fantastic to say the very least. Don’t get me wrong, I will pick a Nokia N-Series or E-Series S60 smartphone any day of the week over an iPhone, but I do admit that the regular menu of iPhone is quite beautiful than the default symbian GUI, plus I love the Apple Mac!! Overall in terms of compatibility, user friendliness and the flexibility of the symbian operating system on any smartphones, Symbian wins hands down over iPhone.

The main appeal of the iPhone (beside the music) is its touch screen sensitivity and the ability of it to serve external interfaces as applications. There are Wordpress (the platform I am using for this blog, I love wordpress btw on a totally different note) plugins dedicated for the iPhone mainly because in the states most people are using iPhone over the Symbian. Sad really because Nokia phones are still the number one deal maker and breaker in the industry and Wordpress should have had something for focused to the rest of the world users who actually uses something else and certainly not iPhone. Anyway, back to the topic and what I am about to publish today will convert your default Nokia symbian menu and settings (not the core settings) to that of the Apple iPhone, thus giving you the looks of the iPhone while letting you use the much better Symbian OS. It is called Symbian Plus and it will “flip and swooop” your default Nokia interface!

Symbian Plus also has one nifty thing which I mentioned earlier, the navigation dock bar that actually was Apple’s Mac thing and later ported to the iPhone. You can opt to have a total of seven different applications or functions there each dedicated to something different. By default Symbian Plus assigns the first icon to be settings, the second to be the mobile gaming dedicated pad. The third is assigned for going back to phone and the rest are the internet browser, music, help and refresh buttons respectively. This mobile application also lets you experience the Mobile 2.0 interface with the help of its pop up menu screens. It is really hard to describe it, but once you install it you will know what I meant lol.

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Ideas For Marketing Your iPhone Application

Marketing your mobile application can be half of the battle. With over 100,000 applications in the iTunes App Store, it is crucial that you spend time devising a marketing plan for your application. Check out these ideas below on how to successfully market your mobile application.
* Making frequent updates to apps to increase App Store visibility This can be an easy marketing technique and can definitely add extra exposure to your application. It keeps your customers engaged and also allows you to improve upon your mobile app while marketing it at the same time!
* Offering a "lite" version of their paid app to stimulate trial This can be effective to help increase your sales as if a user likes your trial app they are far more likely to purchase your full paid version of the application. This is highly recommended for mobile games and higher priced apps.
* Submitting their app to review blogs
This can make and break your app. If you get favorable reviews its fair for you to expect an increase in sales. But if you receive dis-favorable reviews it will only count against you.
* Making price cuts to stimulate demand
This is an old fashion marketing technique. You can create a sale or 50% off coupon and make your customers feel like they're getting a deal on your mobile app. This marketing technique is recommended after your initial marketing to help recreate customer interest.
* Purchasing advertising on other websites
* Purchasing Google AdWords to attract buyers
* Purchasing / trading for in-app advertising
* Hiring paid Public Relations help This is my personal favorite marketing technique. Public relations helps build brand legitimacy and helps sell your product while informing the public about it at the same time. Invest your time and resources into a excellent press release that is newsworthy and you may find your app featured on all the top technology blogs!
* Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) supporting websites
Before you begin selling your mobile app make sure you spend some time and create a marketing plan to get your app the attention it deserves. With so much competition out there, marketing can be half the battle!
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