XiMAD - Apps for Idle Hands and Minds

OviPublisherSuccesses | 21 December, 2010 23:19

 

XiMAD is home to a wide variety of mind bogglingly entertaining apps. XiMAD, which is comprised of a team of world-class creative and engineering talents, released its first app on Ovi Store over a year ago. Since then the company's apps, like 5001 Amazing Facts and Tic Tac Toe, have helped it to reach over 1.3 million downloads from more than 190 countries.

 

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San Francisco based XiMAD produces mind-challenging and amusing informational and gaming apps.  XiMAD's team of professionals is committed to combining classical art and science with cutting-edge interactive entertainment techniques and technologies. 

5001 Amazing Facts, an informational app, is one of XiMAD's most popular and is designed to be both educational and fun. XiMAD created 5001 Amazing Facts to help people spend less time searching for information and as a way to provide informational entertainment.  Above is a glimpse of a few fun facts from the app.

5001 Amazing Facts is packed with user-friendly elements.  Using Adobe Flash Lite, the company created a clean, gesture-based UI for the app.  With a simple swipe of a finger across the device’s screen, a user can flip through surprising and interesting information that ranges from something you might find in an encyclopedia to off-the-wall and obscure tidbits you won’t see elsewhere.  Users can also easily search for facts by keywords and can bookmark their favorites for quick retrieval. There is also an interactive element – with the push of a button send a selected fact via the device's default SMS client, which makes it easy to share the fun with family, friends or co-workers.

One reviewer wrote: "It's a great tool for memorizing various data. All you have to do is create a simple list of facts which you can then view several times a week – and that's it. Bingo! You become as wise as Einstein."


5001 Amazing Facts and other popular apps by XiMAD frequently receive downloads from users in UK and US, but recently the company has seen a spike in downloads from other countries like China and India.

"We're happy to see such great success in Ovi Store and are happy to take advantage of its global reach," said Sergey Lychkovsky, Marketing and Business Manager at XiMAD.  "Right now, we’re working on bringing our apps to users in countries like China and India.  We are working with Indian web-resources and working to translate our apps for the Chinese language."

5001 Amazing Facts is free to download and is available for the Nokia X6, Nokia 5228, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5233, Nokia 5235, Nokia 5250, Nokia 5530, Nokia C6-00, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini, and Nokia 5800 devices.

 



Another informative and fun app designed by XiMAD is Celebrity Tweets.  Designed with Flash Lite on Symbian, the app delivers tweets from a pre-selected group of celebrities on Twitter.  This app is a favorite among consumers for two clear reasons: there is no need to setup a Twitter account and the design is intuitive.  Users can also choose from five categories of celebrities, i.e. Music, Movie/TV, Sport, Politics, and Other. 

Examples of celebrities include actors Rachel Maddow and Ashton Kutcher, singer Lady Gaga, world famous author Neil Gaiman, and entrepreneur Richard Branson.  The app also provides tweets from companies like New York Times, CNN and Whole Foods.

Consumers love this app; one wrote:  "This app is exactly what I was looking for - all my favorite celebrity accounts, plus the last minute news. Thank you!"

The app has also been featured on Ovi Daily App. 
 
Celebrity Tweets costs $1.99 USD and is available for the Nokia X6, Nokia 5228, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5233, Nokia 5235, Nokia 5250, Nokia 5530, Nokia C6-00, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini, and Nokia 5800 devices.

 

For consumers looking for classic entertainment, XiMAD also created an app that captures a very traditional game that people love to play while on the go – Tic Tac Toe.

The Tic Tac Toe app utilizes Flash Lite to deliver bold and rich graphics as well as a smooth UI.  Users can choose from the classic 3x3 board or, if they are looking for a challenge, they can attempt to master the 6x6 board.  They can play against their device or choose two-player mode to battle a friend.



Some reviews:
--"It’s addictive and colorful!"

--"Tic Tac Toe is the best way to pass time."

--"This is a wicked game.  Everyone should have it to enjoy."

Tic Tac Toe is free to download and is available for the Nokia X6, Nokia 5228, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5233, Nokia 5235, Nokia 5250, Nokia 5530, Nokia C6-00, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini, and Nokia 5800 devices.

For a complete overview of all available apps by XiMAD, visit Ovi Store. 

 

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