This is a race or a war if you will between two great developers, one of them is Tong Ren, which has come up with Flip Silent, and now we see ShakeSMS, which seems like quite a good concept, because I rather do a simple movement with my hand to check SMS rather then actually unlocking or sliding the phone up.

On Samir’s side we have seen RotateMe, Nokmote, Shutup (a bit late with reduced functionality compared to FlipSilent), and now we wonder what LoudMe and ShakeMe is.

According to p@sco from jaspp.net, LoudMe will allow you to answer a call in loudspeaker mode, which can be useful if you are in a car, like Bery from Symbian Web Blog said, or if you just want to show off with your friends!

Now about ShakeMe we are a bit sceptical, as it could be the same function that Sony Ericsson phones have on the music section, such as the W910i Shake, which shakes and shuffles all songs, or changes tracks when you do a determined movement. It could also be an SMS viewing application, exactly like ShakeSMS, or it could even be to answer calls, there is unlimited possiblities.

Today I interviewed Mr Tong Ren, who developed the application FlipSilent, many of the Symbian enthusiasts say that he stole the idea from Samir Oueldi and his ShutUp application, he clarifies that this is not true. Read below for the full fresh interview from this Forum Nokia winner.

Good afternoon Mr Tong Ren, we are really glad for this interview with us.

I will start with same basic but always interesting questions about you. 

What was your first phone? 

Erricson @ 2001,  I forgot the type

When did you start programming? 

2004

When did you get into Symbian, and which one was your first smartphone?

I got into Symbian in 2004 with Nokia 6600

We know that you were a Forum Nokia champion, please enlighten us about how you accomplished this feat. 

OpenC challenge, 2nd runner up. They invited me.

What is your favourite application at the moment? 

FlipSilent

What phone do you use at the moment? 

N95

What is your current profession (job)? 

Researcher at E-Learning lab of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Now I will move onto particular FlipSilent questions. 

Many people say that your idea was stolen from Mr Samir Oueldi on his unfinished application ShutUp, is this true? 

My Idea is From here: http://cn.s60.com/main/experience_touchUI_video.html  at about 1min 23 sec

Why distribute the application freeware when you know you can always make money selling it? 

As a developer, I have a dream, wishing one day, I can have my application installed on every mobile phone!

freeware will be quicker to make my dream come true. I accept donations.

http://symbianblog.com/index.php/flipsilent/  A world map here from google analytics

What do you FlipSilent final version to do? Please list all features. 

it is determined by user requests, If I think it is reasonable , I will add it.

Do you plan on releasing the code for FlipSilent and making it OpenSource? If no please explain the reason. 

I am not sure yet, maybe yes, if I don’t commercialize it.

What are your future applications’ plans? 

Very busy with FlipSilent, less than 4 hour sleep per day. No plan, yet.

What would you like Nokia to do with the accelerometer? 

I hope they can Install accelerometer  to every phone released in the future, like the camera…

What specs does your dream phone have? 

IT is fast, no idea…

We truly appreciate the time you spent with us and wish you the best of luck in your

projects.
Thanks!

The PhoneReport.Info team

Please do post questions that you feel we should ask Mr Tong.