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Think Orange, a Lisbon-based web design & development agency, just launched their first app for the iPhone/iPod Touch dubbed “The Amazing Mechanical Pomodoro“.

The app was developed using the Titanium Mobile framework, and the design is authored by Bauke Schildt. The initial prototype, built without any attention to design but rather focused on a first attempt with development with the framework, was put together in 3 days.

After that Bauke was brought in for the design, and 1 month of real tests on iPhones, performance tweaks and polishing, the App was approved and launched a week after submission on the App Store.

A version of the app for Android systems was only left out due to the lack of support of Google Checkout for Portuguese customers.

According to Pedro Sousa this was their first experiment with a mobile app and all it’s challenges, but they plan to launch more apps in the near future to understand how sustainable the mobile app market becomes for Think Orange.

More screenshots and information about the App and it’s birth can be found in this post at Pedro’s blog.

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