The 2010 season of IPL or Indian Premier League is about to kick off this month and IPL Chairman Lalit Modi just tweeted about a new iPhone App. If you are Cricket fan and have an iPod touch or iPhone , the app will certainly impress you
Features of the IPL iPhone app
Basic Features:
• Live News Feeds
• Match Schedules
–searchable by venue, team and date
• Push Notifications to alert users of events before and during matches – these are customizable by the users
• IPL team list with team members and their information
• Individual Team Performance
• Individual Team Member performance
Upcoming features that will be enabled during each match (some of them would be in-app purchases):
• Live score
• Live text commentary
• Live audio commentary
• Real time ball-by-ball videos
Post match features (some of them would be in-app purchases):
• Match highlights for each match
• Best 4s and 6s of each match
• Best catches of each match
General Features
• Time to start of IPL
• About the IPL
• Time to start of the next match
• Superb user interface for best mobile cricket experience
• Full fixtures with past results as the season progresses
• Instant updates for team point standings
The cost of the app is 4.99 USD and its for the 2010 season of the IPL only ! The app has been developed by Dot Com Infoway and is about 400 KB in size
It has reportedly been optimized for
Fast loading even with 2G, 2.5G/GPRS, 2.75/Edge, 3G/UMTS or 3.5G/HSDPA networks. Super fast loading with Wi-Fi connection.
2.75 EDGE ? We are seeing that for the first time !
You can grab the app here
And from his tweets Modi uses a UberTwitter on Blackberry