Punch-O-Meter is one of the many free applications from Fox Mobile Distribution GmbH available from the OVI Store. As the name suggests it supposedly measures your punches by having you holding your phone while throwing air punches.
The application is small in both download and install size and doesn’t surpass the 1 Mb limit and nothing much exciting is worth noting during the installation process, following the same usual installation routine.
Once fired up the developer’s logo shows up for about 2 seconds before the start screen of the application appears. Here you can choose to start the application by using the center D-pad or left softkey and up and down to highlight an option. The right softkey is used to go back to the menu and to exit the application.
When starting the application you get a blinking screen with the text “press start” and the application is started by pressing the center D-pad or the left softkey and the countdown of 5 seconds starts rolling down. Throw an air punch while holding the phone to let the application measure how strong your punch is.
Most of the punches that I threw in the beginning lead to bad results with thumbs down and mean words. It’s not easy to get the good results flying in this application.
However once you’ve learned to throw the punches at the right time in addition to the help of a little trick. Good results with thumbs ups and praising words will start to roll.
The application in itself doesn’t provide much value of usage and is just a fun way to get time to fly by or to irritate your friends. Precautions should be taken when using this application as one of the risks is that you’ll easily send your phone flying through the air if you don’t hold it tight enough. (For me it hasn’t happened, yet.) It is therefore the sole responsibility of the owner of the Symbian-powered handset or the person throwing the punch to make sure this don’t happen.
There is a simply trick to always get the good results and the secret lies in the help section of the application. I won’t reveal the trick here so it’ s up to those interested to find out. The application is available from the OVI Store with support for S60 3rd Edition handsets.
Did you get the good results or do you know of any similar applications?
