Spice lab, the mobile application development company of Spice group, is developing mobile applications for children.
Currently, the company is focusing on applications for kids in the age group of 1-4 years and 4-12 years, with major attention given to the former category.
The company plans to bring out 30 children’s applications and games in the next four to six months.
It has also built in a child lock function in these applications, which prevents kids from accidently making a call or opening other applications not meant for them.
For now there are five kids’ games available on both Nokia Ovi store and BlackBerry App World.
Kiddo
A mobile based education aid for kids in the age group of 0-2 years that helps them learn things like alphabets, numbers, object recognition etc.
It displays pictures matching the alphabet for example ‘A’ for Apple. It has a voice feature, and the best part is that you can lend your own voice, which would be more familiar to the child. (https://store.ovi.com/content/60631)
Memory
Memory is about remembering colour, fruits, vegetables, and alphabets. The kid needs to remember what he has seen earlier and has to open a pair of cards that have the same picture. (https://store.ovi.com/content/32539)
Hangman Kids
The classic game of Hangman asks the child to guess the spelling of an image in a picture. (https://store.ovi.com/content/34204)
Jigsaw
It has friendly images and game play for kids. (https://store.ovi.com/content/32539)
Maze
Classic maze game in which the child needs to figure his way out of the jig-jag paths full of dead-ends. The game is free. (https://store.ovi.com/content/48608)
Spice labs is developing an app in which kids can fill colour in a picture. It is also working on a new version of Kiddo, apart from many other applications.