More Nepali apps being developed to cash in on cell phone boom

KATHMANDU, Dec 29:

With the increase in number of smartphone users, the development of new Nepali apps by different companies and individuals, especially for Android-based phones, are on the rise.

To cash in on the increasing number of users of Andrioid phones, BrainDigit IT solution, a Nepali company has come up with different types of Nepali apps.

The company has developed more than dozen of productive mobile apps for Android and Windows Phone like File Locker, a data protection app, Simply Schedule, that allows users to schedule their SMS and Facebook posts, Budget Planner that helps plan and manage money, Trek Guide (TG) for trekkers and Khabar Sanchar for news updates.

The company is soon planning to release two new apps: Predicting Game and Ramailo Mart.

Click here to see some apps on company website.

Though the company was established five years back and used to focus mostly on

business application development, enterprise content management, and collaborative e-commerce solution, currently it has focused its drives in the field of mobile apps development.

The company assimilates that mobile phones are ubiquitous and the services and wonderful usefulness of the small gadgets have made them an integral part of human race.

“Understanding this scope of mobile phones, we have specially focused on mobile apps and as the users of Andrioid-based smartphones from low end to high end are increasing day by day, we have specially focused on apps for Andriod operating system,” said Gaurab Raj Pant, sales manager of the company.

According to the company, the upcoming app, Predicting Game is an app for online games that allows users to play free online game, creating opportunity to use one´s skill of predicting and wining exciting rewards.

Both these apps will be launched within the second week of January.
“The app is linked with email and Facebook and is free and easy to register. Each game is sponsored by a brand and the winner is privileged by the rewards in the form of cash, voucher and gifts,” said Pant.

Similarly, Ramailo Mart is an online portal which serves as a platform to advertise company and its products and services.

“The app for the portal will help to promote big, medium and small-sized companies and their products nationally as well as internationally. It is a platform for the companies to advertise their products, offerings, events and everything else to a wide range of audience,” added Pant.

The company said that the users of Ramailo Mart app will be able to brand their business and products to large number of audience, advertise their brand in advertisement section, create separate brand pages and even sell their product and services online.

Similarly the newly launched app Khabar Sanchar, which targets readers as well as media houses, allows users to read news from major newspapers and online news portals faster and also according to their interest.

The app has categorized news into different headings, and one can read news in either Nepali or English. However, for the full coverage users are redirected to the website of the source media.

Source: Republica