Long time has passed since I bought the app Campionato 08/09 for Apple iPhone/iPod touch and promised my friend Stefano I'll review it. So, here I am, and I'll try to be as honest as possible.Fist of all, let me say that Campionato 08/09 is very accurate for what concerns the Italian national leagues. For every club a truckload of information and news are provided, plus the top scorers ranking and link to Google Maps and Wikipedia for locating the stadiums and know everything about them.
As for the user experience, it is very good, compliant with the native iPhone applications you could say. Navigation between internal menus is easy and quite straightforward.
A nice piece of feature I liked is this: when you select the Serie A or Serie B calendars, the app scrolls down automatically to the current matchday and displays the result of your favourite team (if you configured one).
Application configuration is a very easy task. There are three main properties that you can enable or disable:
Real-time notifications use the common "new mail" notification sound, so the first time you hear it you can be quite confused, but you'll get used to it pretty soon.
However, the authors provided a way to disable live updates if you don't want to consume your money in order to follow your favourite team's games!
As far as I can say, results and all the details about the ongoing games are updated really really fast, while, after all games end, it takes a little more than I expected to get the updated league ranking.
It is also nice to follow the leagues of other nations. With Campionato 08/09 I can now follow the destiny of Zola's West Ham guys ^^ (you know...everybody loves Gianfranco), but I miss much the lack of the other leagues rankings. Well...at least I couldn't find them...
Another cool thing is a sort of internal mini-browser which is capable of show you the latest news about all the teams without closing the application and switch to Safari. It would be nice if also the maps feature worked like that.
So, as an improvement, I would suggest Stefano, Roberto Fraboni and the other authors to provide a faster update of the Italian leagues' rankings. That's why a common use case of websites and/or old teletext is this: "Ok, game has just ended, let's see if we climbed up the ranking!!"
Even Italian Cup updates and main draw would be appreciated!
Plus, I'd like to see ranking also for Premier League, Liga and so on.
One last thing that I'd like to say is: if you love football, or you are at least quite interested in it (like me), 1,59 euro its quite a ridiculous price to gain access to all these infos!!
So, the bottom line is: good job guys, but we can't wait for it to be even better!!
As for the user experience, it is very good, compliant with the native iPhone applications you could say. Navigation between internal menus is easy and quite straightforward.
A nice piece of feature I liked is this: when you select the Serie A or Serie B calendars, the app scrolls down automatically to the current matchday and displays the result of your favourite team (if you configured one).
Application configuration is a very easy task. There are three main properties that you can enable or disable:
- Favourite team
- Enable/Disable live updates
- Enable/Disable vibration for notification
Real-time notifications use the common "new mail" notification sound, so the first time you hear it you can be quite confused, but you'll get used to it pretty soon.
However, the authors provided a way to disable live updates if you don't want to consume your money in order to follow your favourite team's games!
As far as I can say, results and all the details about the ongoing games are updated really really fast, while, after all games end, it takes a little more than I expected to get the updated league ranking.
It is also nice to follow the leagues of other nations. With Campionato 08/09 I can now follow the destiny of Zola's West Ham guys ^^ (you know...everybody loves Gianfranco), but I miss much the lack of the other leagues rankings. Well...at least I couldn't find them...
Another cool thing is a sort of internal mini-browser which is capable of show you the latest news about all the teams without closing the application and switch to Safari. It would be nice if also the maps feature worked like that.
So, as an improvement, I would suggest Stefano, Roberto Fraboni and the other authors to provide a faster update of the Italian leagues' rankings. That's why a common use case of websites and/or old teletext is this: "Ok, game has just ended, let's see if we climbed up the ranking!!"
Even Italian Cup updates and main draw would be appreciated!
Plus, I'd like to see ranking also for Premier League, Liga and so on.
One last thing that I'd like to say is: if you love football, or you are at least quite interested in it (like me), 1,59 euro its quite a ridiculous price to gain access to all these infos!!
So, the bottom line is: good job guys, but we can't wait for it to be even better!!
2 commenti:
There is an error in the program: Cagliari won the scudetto in 1969/70 and not in 1924/25.
saluti!
For the anonymous who left a comment complaining about a missing 2009/2010 update, please sign your comment and you'll be published! Thank you.
As for myself, I can tell that I heavily used Campionato last year, so I'd be glad to have an update and use it this year too!
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