HourPower v1.04 Out!

You know the situation - you experience it almost every day: When you wake up in the morning, you'll want to know the time.

Of course you could take a look at the alarm clock, but that would imply looking at the small clock on your bedside table. If you have a clock that's able to project the time on the ceiling, it's better - but still, you have to get your eyes into a state where they can focus at the numbers. This is where talking alarm clocks come in handy. But you might not have one. However, you do have a mobile phone. Why not let the phone read the time for you?

This is exactly where HourPower comes into play. It reads the current system time out aloud (in a Stephan Hawking like tone) - nothing else. No fancy UI, nothing to configure. Just press the button and hear the time. Put it on a softkey of the standby-screen for maximum comfort.

HourPower uses the built-in text to speech-engine of S60 3rd Edition phones. English, German and French are currently supported. If your phone is running a different language, you might not get the optimal experience: your phone will try to speak the default English words, but use your local dialect. In that case, you're welcome to translate the words (and - if necessary - extend the source code to make sure that all possible counting-irregularities in your language are properly handled) and send it to us: HourPower is open source and licensed under the GPL!

Now, Stephan Hawking, the time please!

Changelog from v1.03 to 1.04:

- Improved time reading in English for a correct handling of noon / midnight in the 12 hour clock system as well as optimized speech of full hours and the first ten minutes of each hour. Thanks to Joel M. Parks from Nokia for pointing that out!
- The application now launches in the background.
- Optimized icon and code resulting in a smaller application (installed size: 28 kB instead of 48 kB).
- Changed license from GPL 2 to GPL 3.

Download here from the developer's website.