My company is giving away an unlocked iPhone 4
Posted: August 25, 2010 Filed under: Work | Tags: 321photo, contest, iphone, iphone4 1 Comment »And by “my company” I mean myself & my friend Brad, aka http://room1337.com
The contest is for promoting our iPhone camera app 321 Photo. Enter by signing up to follow us on twitter at @room1337 and posting a tweet that mentions http://bit.ly/321contest such as the examples on our contest page.
We’re giving away the phone after we get to, I think, 5000 followers. Also, 5 tweeters every day will get a promo code to upgrade our freemium app to the full verison (or, at least, make you not lose the premium features once the demo period expires).
If this contest helps us get more downloads then we can afford to.. well, eat, but to also spend more time adding features to our app. Currently we’re working on AVFoundation API support for faster photos & focus/exposure control, posting photos directly to twitter, facebook & flickr, and other secret features. Winners (and buyers) of our full version will get these features when we finish them (we’re not making 321 Photo 2!, or 321 Photo RED), and the more our users support us the more we can justify working to get it done faster, and the quicker we’ll be able to work on other cool new features we really want to get to.
Our app isn’t the slickest, but we strive to make it functional and efficient and with a unique spin. For example, we’re dedicated to tap anywhere on the screen to take a picture, but also tap & hold and it will take pictures continuously as long as you have available memory. I’ve been able to, after clearing out background apps in iOS4 on my 3GS, take over 20 photos as fast as the camera could snap them, nearly 2 photos per second.
Oh, BTW, we’re finally giving that away in the coming weeks (or days). We didn’t get the initial response we wanted, and then restated the deadline to be after hitting a (modest) number of twitter followers & facebook fan^H^H^H likes, which we also didn’t reach after several months. Our internal plan was to do the give-away (no matter how many followers) to promote the launch of the app’s major update.
Well due to feature creep, gold plating and fixes to crap implementations (my bad), it’s taken all this time to get this update done but we finally have the rebranded app in the store, “Click!”. The first flavour available being the new for-pay app ($2 i think), and the free-plus-in-app-purchase-upgrade-for-more-features flavour, precisely an upgrade of “321 Photo”, coming very soon.
It’s not too late to enter, http://room1337.com/321contest. Read more about the rebranding here http://room1337.com/2011/07/07/321-photo-is-dead-long-live-click/