New Rider App for BlackBerry and iPhone
Oct 09, 2009
Rider fans rejoice. We bring you the official Rider App. Now available for your BlackBerry [and iPhone coming soon].
We collaborated with SaskTel Labs [more on them later] and the Riders to launch the first official CFL team app. There wasn’t any shortage of ideas planning this app. There were close to 30 features on the table, so for now, only the must-haves made it for the launch. This was a great project to work on with SaskTel Labs—which is a small, almost top secret innovation department within SaskTel. It’s R&D, yet not quite R&D.
Kudos to SaskTel for being able to work on an app for a phone they don’t even sell. The Riders are excited about this and hopefully it’s a touchdown [pun intended] with the fans. Take a look at the vids to get an idea of how it works. The app is completely free from BlackBerry app stores [iTunes coming soon] so stay tuned to Riderville.com for all the updates.
Justin
Oct 30, 2009 22:29
Nice iPhone/iPod Touch App but the only really glaring mistake was with the kick off time. It is set for the local time of where the game is being played. Just seems to me that you would want the Saskatchewan Roughriders App’s start time to be, oh I don’t know set to what time it would start in Saskatchewan. Besides you could have just used the iPhones/iPod touches build in location service to determine what time zone the user was in and display the appropriate kick off time.
Albert
Nov 04, 2009 16:53
Good call Justin. The guys noticed this as well and found out that the info being pulled was inaccurate. It’s just part of the fun when you have to plug into 3rd party data sources. And I’m sure there will be other issues with this – some we’ll know of and some we won’t, so keep your comments coming.
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