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3D Flip clock & World weather widget offers a familiar look with out the price Tag

We all remember when HTC first introduced the flip clock widget in their Sense UI. It was beautiful, mesmerizing and impossible to get on other devices. It didn’t take long for the market to start getting flooded with clock apps. Everyone has their favorites and it seems like the more I find, the more you download. While looking for something cool to post up this afternoon I came across this one by Droid27. It is styled after that all important and highly desired flip clock style with extras of course.

This is more than just a flip clock though. It will display the weather, current weather condition icons, current battery life and date. To kick it up a notch, you can set the clock to do various operations like make it beep at you every hour, sunrise/sunset time for current location, humidity and wind conditions and many many more functions. If that isn’t enough, there are 36 skins to choose from, 5 weather icon skins and 5 clock fonts. This clock has it all and best off all it is free! Unbelievable.

I can’t even reproduce what the dev has done with this application, take a quick read of more features below –

The widget features the following:

– 36 skins to choose from (more skins coming in the future)
– Support for external theme packs (theme packs can be downloaded separately)
– 5 weather icon skins
– 5 fonts for the time
– Portrait or landscape mode
– 12 or 24 hour clock with date
– Current location (city, country) taken automatically from cell/wifi or GPS, or specified by the user
– Weather conditions for current location (condition and temperature, low and high temperatures and weather icon)
– Detailed weather forecast display including the following:
– Local time
– Sunrise and sunset time for current location
– Humidity and wind conditions
– Current condition, temperature and low and high temperatures
– Current condition icon
– Last weather update time
– 4 day weather forecast
– World weather: Chose to display weather information for any number of different locations worldwide. Just select your favorite locations and you will immediately have updated weather and time information.

Note: Weather is provided by Google

The widget can be fully customized with the following options:

– Chose the widget and weather icon skins
– Chose the text color for the time, am/pm indication, date, location, current weather condition, current temperature and hi/lo temperatures
– Display shadow on the time
– Chose the font for the time
– Display 12 or 24 hour time with optional AM/PM indicator (if 12 hour format)
– Beep every hour
– Select the date format
– Display a manually selected location’s time instead of phone’s time
– Optionally show or hide specific elements of the widget (background panel, background flaps, knobs, date panel and hi/lo temperature)
– Use current location to display weather info or specify any location you want
– Get location updates from the network (cell/WiFi) or your GPS
– Display temperature values in Celsius or Fahrenheit
– Optionally display the next alarm (under the hour)
– Select automatic weather refresh period (15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 hours)
– Enter your favorite world locations to watch local times, current weather conditions and weather forecast information
– Update weather on WiFi and/or GPRS
– Chose whether you want to update while roaming or not
– Play notification sounds on location and weather changes and updates
– Select what application to launch when tapping the hours
– Launch more applications by tapping the weekday or month
– Optionally display the battery level on the widget
– Specify how to receive location updates (how often and for how much distance)

Now that is a thorough developer and application. What good is a whole bunch of reading? You guys want to see what the application looks like don’t you? Well, here are a few screen shots and a video of it in action.

If what is provided just isn’t enough to entice you to download this FREE application, I’ll even provide you the links to the 2 theme packs that are also available. Don’t any of you dare tell the dev this app won’t open either.. It is a widget, so you must long press on the home screen and select widgets first and then apply it. Might seem rather mundane to remind people of that, but some are new users and still don’t fully understand how to use their devices. Click or scan the QR code below to head straight to the market to pick up this awesome application.

Application: 3D Flip Clock & world Weather
Developer: Droid27
Cost: FREE

Theme Pack #1

Theme Pack #2