Some people might argue that no matter how idiotic it sounds, normal phones do have a lot of advantages over smartphones. You can’t transfer data as easily to your Windows Phone 7 as you can to a dumb-phone with an SD card. You have lots of restrictions which were unheard of in the pre-smartphone era. There isn’t even a stock app for countdown timer and stopwatch in WP7. However, in Mango, you can use the new app named Timer, which is a simple countdown timer that keeps running even after you quit the app.
WP7 is not famous for running apps in the background. True multitasking is not available in Nodo and earlier versions but with the latest update (Mango), this feature has been enabled. Timer is a small app which makes use of this latest Mango feature. You can set up as many timers in parallel as you want simply by tapping the add sign at the bottom of the screen. Tap the time and after selecting the desired time period, you are all set for the countdown. Don’t forget to start the timer by toggling it on.
The timer you set will go off regardless of the state your phone is in (as long as the phone is turned on, of course). Timer doesn’t do much, but it does perform the task it promises to do and is absolutely free.
