mobile phone application for identifying fish

Charles Halliday · #1 (**permalink**) 04-01-2010, 04:39 PM

I hope this doesn't contravene the forum rules, but I thought I would mention my mobile phone application that can be used to identify freshwater fish species. It can be downloaded onto any web enabled phone (most modern colour screen phones) from my website which is all the w's, fishwish.co.uk (I thought it might be a bit cheeky to add a direct link!). A sea fish version will hopefully be released later on this year

Boddie · #2 (**permalink**) 04-01-2010, 04:47 PM

Does it work with the Iphone?

Boddie · #3 (**permalink**) 04-01-2010, 04:54 PM

I tried it, the answer is no

Boddie · #4 (**permalink**) 04-01-2010, 05:02 PM

Works well on Blackberry Storm although my three results were

Rudd 205%
Brown Trout 205%
Bream 171%

I thought percentages only go up to 100, unless you are an XFactor judge

Gill Catton · #5 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 11:56 AM

I think there's a UKbutterfly one for the iphone that looks good from the samples I've seen - but I've yet to find it! (have only half heartedly looked though)

Boddie · #6 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

I think there's a UKbutterfly one for the iphone that looks good from the samples I've seen - but I've yet to find it! (have only half heartedly looked though)

There is. Its excellent but at £9.99 its not cheap

Butterflies of Britain and Ireland

Boddie · #7 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 12:32 PM

Maybe WAB should do one for funghi or moths

Gill Catton · #8 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Boddie

There is. Its excellent but at £9.99 its not cheap

Butterflies of Britain and Ireland

not dissimilar to a field guide though - and considerably lighter and easier to carry

This is the way of field guides of the future I reckon!

Gill Catton · #9 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Boddie

Maybe WAB should do one for funghi or moths

There's definately a market I reckon... Look how much National geographic are charging for their birds of america one. The Apps that are also field guides may be poorly priced against other apps but they are well priced amongst field guides...

Should we start a new thread on this? (apologies Charles for hijacking your thread)

Charles Halliday · #10 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 03:19 PM

Thanks for the interest. An iphone version is available (and much more powerful) and available via istore. To find it you have to enter 'Coarse FishId' into the istore search, otherwise you end up with a very different version which isn't a proper key.

Your 200% results that you refer to have never come up in any of the testing so hopefully you were running it on an emulator or something that wasn't fully compatible with the Java version.