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By Payam Dastmalchi on August 10th, 2009

Interview with Razia Ahamed of Touchnote

Touchnote is an exciting web start-up that has generated a lot of buzz in recent weeks. They were recently declared as Best Mobile Service at MobileBeat 2009 conference and have inked several key partnerships to help facilitate its growth. Touchnote’s mobile application was launched at the Ovi store at the end of May and is absolutely one of my favourite apps. The application allows users to create and send greeting cards directly from the phone to anywhere in the World. I recently interviewed Razia Ahamed of Touchnote to learn more about the application and plans moving forward.

Tell me about your company. How long you’ve been in business? What is the core focus of the service?

Touchnote is an online and mobile service that lets you design and create your own physical photo-cards. The core focus of the service is to bring digital photos to life in the form of real printed photo cards. Touchnote launched its service online in October 2008 and launched with Nokia in May 2009 to bring the first mobile application to deliver a physical personalised product.

What can users do with Touchnote mobile app on Ovi? Are there any significant limitations with the mobile app vs the web site?

Using the Touchnote application, users either take a photo or select one from their photo gallery…

They then write a message…

Tell Touchnote who to send it to (they can pull the postal address from their address book or enter it manually)…

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By Payam Dastmalchi on July 19th, 2009

New Apps on Ovi Store

According to Nokia sources, they are now approving over 100 apps a day so we are starting to see series of new and interesting apps appear at the Ovi store. Here are some of the latest apps on Ovi store.

Touchnote – Utilities – $9.99 for 5 Pack

This is by far one of the most interesting apps in the store. Touchnote which just this past week was declared the best Mobile app service at the MobileBeat 2009 conference, lets you capture a moment on your camera phone and send it as a physical greeting card to anywhere in the world.

I Parked Here – City Guides/Maps – $ 2.99

This is another app that uses the location-based technology to help you remember where you parked. The app uses cell connections instead of the GPS systems and guides you to the car by turn by turn navigation and set up parking meter alarms.

Compass Touch – City Guides/Maps – Free

Simple but very useful app that turns your phone to a compass and gives you direction in degrees and longitude and latitude coordinates.

Battery Extender – Utilities – 14 day Trial / $14.99

Another great app from the makers of Tweets60 , that extends the battery performance of smart phones by fine tuning the settings on your device.

Motion Board – Games – $4.99

This is a great looking game that uses the phones accelerometer and challenges your body balance and handling techniques.