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I was going to send a tweet instead of posting here but 140 characters would not have been enough…

The Auckland Transit iPhone and iPod Touch application has been in the app store for a few weeks now and it’s already providing me with some very interesting statistics.

Unlike Wellington, most of the iPhone users are NOT using a 3GS model but 3G rather. The number of jailbroken devices is 4 times the one in Wellington and, more interestingly, whilst in Wellington the peak is Mondays or Fridays in Auckland it seems to be Saturday instead.

Monitoring user behaviour between Wellington and Auckland will be an interesting exercise, especially since the Auckland user numbers are growing so rapidly.

This past week has been a very active week in terms of deployments.

iPhone WelliBUS reached version 2.5.1. The latest update adds a new feature that allows users to save favourite services not just stops, improves the load times significantly, brings tooltips to a few screens and addresses a couple of small issues.

But the real reason for this post is that this week we launched two Android applications.

Firstly WelliBUS for Android was launched! This first release of the application is very feature rich thanks to the work of @cur3n4 Users can search by stop numbers, station names, street names and even wharfs. There is even a Map view that allows users to find nearby stops. Once the departure stop has been identified the application allows filtering by service number or date/time and goes on to display the departure times and itinerary for the selected routes. Download this free application from the Android Market today.

The other application is the Android version Twister Referee. This is a port of the iPhone application with the same name. Its purpose is simple: enable referee-free Twister play. Rather than having one player operate the spinner the application will do it automatically, over and over again.

Cheers…