Set Your iPhone to Stun with Star Trek Communicator App
5:05 pm, June 10th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
Image credit: iPhoneSavior
If you haven’t seen the latest Star Trek movie yet, or if you’re interested in rocking a genuine Trek look on your iPhone or iPod Touch anyhow, you will seriously want to consider picking up Talkndog’s super-cool 99¢ Star Radio Communicator (App Store link) app.
Its trillium mesh cover flips out and animates open with a flick of the wrist, exposing the communicator interface. The opening action is accompanied by the familiar “chirping” sound known to old-school Trekkies the world over. Under the mesh antenna “cover” you get a hypnotic spinning black-and-white spiral, with three blinking colored lights and two metal buttons below. One button actually loads a working retro-modern iPhone dialer, complete with sounds that will make you think you’re punching in a star date.
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Quickies, Software, iPhone, iPod Touch | Comment on this article
Have you actually tried this? I bought it based on this post saying it was “just like the original”.
Umm, have you ever watched Star Trek TOS? Everyone who ever watched TOS knows that sound and this is NOTHING like it. How can you have an app like this without the correct sound effect?
Plus, the graphics — especially the dialer — look very amateurish. Not worth even 99 cents. Please, Cult of Mac, you can do better.
Steve, on June 10th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
There is an update to this app with much improved, lot more more authentic sound effects. It’s appearing at the app store as soon as it’s approved by Apple (submitted June 10). If you’re looking for something that’s “just like the original,” you will be very pleased with the update.
Anton Antokhin, on June 11th, 2009 at 12:38 am
“much improved, lot more more authentic sound effects.”
Unless it’s the actual sound, which everyone has memorized, forget it. Perhaps the sound is copyrighted and you can’t use it, which I understand. Then why bother. I’ll have to hope Paramount makes one of these with the real sounds, or someone licenses the real sounds from them.
steve, on June 11th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
It has a nice appearance, the sound effects bite. I feel like I wasted my money. I think that everybody deserves a more athentic update.
Mr 64, on June 27th, 2009 at 11:18 am