Clock
by Eric March on November 13, 2008 at 4:17 pm
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App Name: Clock
Developer: DAVA Consulting
Category: Utilities
Another clock. And it’s cleverly titled “Clock.” I certainly can’t give them points for originality, but as seems to be their MO, DAVA earns their score on style points alone, and Clock (technically called “X Clock”) is no exception, because it’s probably the prettiest clock on the block. (I’ll thank you to keep your “clock blocking” jokes to yourself.)
It serves are your standard clock of course, which is its entire point, but it does its best to look good doing it. The clock face can be any of a full array of colours, selectable through a drop-down slider that appears when you tap on any of the main area of the screen. Although that means that the clock face is only one colour, it’s mainly what’s going on behind the clock that is of interest.
You have your choice of backgrounds, you see, one of three available funky patterns. Either a funky warp-style starfield, a multicolour warp-style aurora type thing, or the same radial aurora type thing just sort of govering and shimmering in bands behind the clock face. It’s really quite cool.
But if that isn’t enough you can change to one of four clock faces: Analog, 12h segmented digital, 24h segmented digital, or plain English (”twenty past four PM” or “Six fifty two AM”).
The option to disable auto-sleep mode is available so you can keep the clock display up at all times, and it also works in both portrait and landscape orientations, though the menus remain in portrait.
Yes, it’s yet another clock. But it’s a pretty clock, and there’s really very little to complain about here. I’d kinda like to be able to change the colour of the starfield independently of the clock face (because the stars are the same colour as the clock) and maybe see a few more funky styles available, but other than that, as clock apps go, this one’s hard to beat.
Note however that Clock wasn’t always free, and it’s only free right now for a limited time, so be sure and grab it now before you’ll need Wallet before you can use it.
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