Today, I downloaded one of the dumbest, yet somehow most satisfying, apps to my Android phone. It is called the Punch-O-Meter. You grasp the phone (firmly) in your hand, tap the screen, and then give it your best shot. The app uses the phone’s accelerometer to measure how fast you can punch. After each punch, you get a score and a one-to-five-star rating. It is guaranteed to destroy your phone.
When you start playing with it in a room full of people, everybody wants to try it. Especially anyone under five. When my two-year-old son insisted that I let him try it after he saw how much fun his older brother and I were having competing to get the highest score, I knew I would have to uninstall it quickly or else risk seeing the phone smashed against the floor.
A similar app with the exact same name is also available on the iPhone for 99 cents. (The Android app is free). The iPhone version is made by DoApp, and appears to be unrelated to the Android Punch-O-Meter. It looks a little different (you can see a video here), and the developer of the Android app, Alex Pisarev, is not listed as a member of the DoApp team.
Sounds like DoApp and Pisarev might have to duke it out.
Here’s a video showing the iPhone Punch-O-Meter:
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a video of the application in action would be nice.
Man, some of these new applications are going way overboard. My iPhone fell off my coffee table and now has a crack in the screen; I would imagine that punching my phone wouldn’t really work out for me either.
I can already see this becoming the new rage at the bars! Tough guys trying to see who can out punch each other!lol
Here’s a video of the iPhone Punch-O-Meter in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waNSpDcZNEM
You grasp the phone in your hand and throw an air punch. Punch-O-Meter calculates a score based on speed, accuracy and strength.
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Well, Erick, What was your SCORE??
Im so afraid of braking my iPhone i dont think I can get a decent score until I use duchtape so my iPhone does not fly.
Here is a free one on iPhone: Punch Power.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObj.....9&mt=8
It gives the speed of your punch in miles per hour and number of punches you can throw in a second.
In the same line, here is one that measures how high you can jump:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObj.....6&mt=8
Oh no no, definitely not “one of the dumbest”. This is a great concept!
On the other hand, conspiracy theory: the phone makers paid money to these developer so that people smash their phones and buy new ones.
I spent like 3 hours on the phone with “Debbie” in India to get my iPhone working again. God I hate tech support… http://fiturl.com/1jN
So stupid. I hope the app comes with a wrist strap ala Wii.
Erick I didn’t know you have G1 in your pocket!! So glad you wrote at least something about it hahah. Anyways you should join us all at http://www.tmobileg1fans.com its growing fast and its only 2 weeks old too!
Btw I bet you will be interested in reading my post from yesterday (TechBloggers WTF is Wrong With You)
Let me know what you think TTYL mate.
Got a 105, but definitely have “Wii shoulder” now.
I downloaded the iphone app and it is really fun. It shows you how to hold the phone so I wasn’t worried about losing it. The key is starting with your arm already back. My boyfriend got the app too and we can compete with one another and challenge through text messaging. It’s definitely a Wii type game
“It is guaranteed to destroy your phone. ” great line
I now wear a helmet when I see a Android user
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Haha, I am in the top 10 and when I say in I mean I am number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10. BEAT THAT!
I´m the alpha and the omega! 154!!! YOU are all only puppets! give me ur number and i kill u!
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woww… the android flies for about 40 feet when it slips out of your hand when using the punchometer!
OMG!!! Are you in the market for a new phone now??? Hahahahahahha
i got 132 on my 1st try
throw to many shots ur arm kills
I only tried it twice. Threw a 130 to be in 1st place. SUCKAS.
Make that a 133. BOOYA.
Who can give me a iphone? I broke mine.
i got 154 beat dat