The mobile device market has changed dramatically over the past 2 years thanks to the efforts of innovators like Apple and other mobile device companies. The devices get smarter every day and mobile applications are becoming more and more important in our daily routine. We use them to communicate, we use them for work, we even use them for pleasure. They are becoming little extensions of our lives.

Therefore Rock Werchter collaborated with partners Proximus, Zanzibar and Appstrakt (aww yeah!) to develop a kick-ass (remember Bruce Lee?) cross-platform mobile application to support their amazing festival.

Supported platforms are iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and other devices that support JAVA applications. To give you some numbers: the application is available on 1.400 devices, with a staggering 80% current market coverage (source: getjar.com).

Some of the features of the application include: Facebook & Twitter integration, multiple ways to consult the line-up, detailed artist information, detailed interactive map of the festival ground. iPhone owners even have the ability to see their current location on the festivals map, thanks to the built-in GPS of their device.

For more information, you can consult our Pressdoc, or click here if you want to download and install the application on your mobile device.

The Reverze application allows users to easily browse trough the line-up and receive detailed information on every artist performing during the event. Once the application is downloaded, users are up-to-date with the latest Reverze news thanks to the built-in Reverze Facebook stream. The integration with Facebook Connect also allows users to like, post comments and even share their list of favorite artists on their own Facebook profile page.
But there is more: Each video uploaded on the Reverze youtube channel is directly pulled into the iPhone application, giving users loads of video content to enjoy.

The fact that all downloaded data is stored on the device really comes in handy. It gives you the ability to enjoy the app even when there is no internet connection available.

On the day of the event (20/02/10), attendees can use the What's on feature to see who's currently playing.

The application is built upon our popular framework Crowdsurfer. This framework has already been used by other well known music events & festivals like Laundry Day and I Love Techno. It gives event organisers the opportunity to easily build a mobile application for their attendees to enhance the event experience. The crowdsurfer framework has been developed not only for iPhone but for other mobile platforms as well. Event related applications will therefore soon be available on other smartphones.

The new version of mijnTVgids (version 1.5.1) is now available! We've heard your suggestions and we're pleased to announce that the 4 most requested features made it to the new release.

This big update adds the following features:

• Set reminders for programs you don't want to miss (uses the iPhone push-functionality)
• There's now an extra page called "Favorites". You can mark a program as favorite in order to get a clean overview of what you don't want to miss the coming days.
• Managing your channel list is now much easier. Channels are grouped and it's now possible to select/deselect multiple channels at once
• The synchronization process is now twice as fast (and we keep making improvements!)

mijnTVgids is still FREE and all program info is available offline, so an internet connection is only needed when you're syncing.

Click here to download mijnTVgids in the AppStore

They must have hired tons of new people at Apple, because our app for the European motorshow got approved in less then a week! Thank you Apple! More information and downloadlink here.

We just finished developing version 1.5 of our mobile TV guide for iPhone & iPod touch. We have some new cool features available, which we developed upon our users' requests. First of all we added push notifications so you never have to miss your favourite show, movie or program again. And ... we made the synchronization process twice as fast!

Febiac, the organisation behind the European Motorshow, has teamed up with Appstrakt to develop an iPhone & iPod touch application for the 2010 edition of the Brussels car and motorcycle show. During this 10 day event hundreds of thousands of people will gather from all over Europe to get a glimpse of the latest realisations & models of their favourite manufacturers.  Goal of the application is to give users an easy-to-use tool to navigate their way through the event. More info coming soon ....