HP Hits the Official App Catalog

We have seen HP apps in the webOS beta/web feed (here). Today, for the first time as far as I am aware of, an app developed by HP staff has hit the official webOS app catalog. "World Time", a simple world time zone app, is simple and functional (and free).

World Time Zones

Simply tap the black rectangle and a scrolling dialog box pops up with a large list of countries and cities to choose from. What I would like to see in a future update of this app is for the map in the background to update to the location that you have selected in the menu. Type-to-search, seen in other apps such as @zhephree's Foursquare, would improve usability (since there is an extensive list making it difficult to manually search through). It would also be ideal to have more of a continuity between this app and the OS. Although a person may intuitively realize that you need to click the black rectangle, there is nothing from the interface that would lead a person to do so.

Overall this is a good app for finding out what time it is in another place in the world, ideal if you have contacts in other countries.

Update: It appears that the app was developed to fit the Pixi's screen. As you can see from the screenshot above, the image of the map becomes tiled to fit my Palm Pre's screen.

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