React: An app that lets you interact with the iPhone’s technology

Victor 2008-12-12 |

The iPhone’s technology has ushered in a series of new user interaction metaphors which are gradually ushering in a paradigm shift in the way people used interact with a smartphone. And these are the metaphors of touch and tangibility. Pinching, sliding, tilting, swishing or plain poking the device.

There are lots of games and apps which have made complete use of these actions and engaged the user in a never-done-before way with his/her iPhone/iPod touch.
So what if you get an application that lets you practice all these in one bunch? What if an app makes you an expert in the essential iPhone practices of pinching, sliding, shaking and poking –and all that from a brilliant interface that just adds more to the fun?

Addictive, edgy, catchy and fast, the app React is available under the Entertainments category of the App Store.

The app just tells you to react. React fast and poke, pinch, slide and shake the iPhone in the order this app tells you to. And that’s real fun. Easy to learn, but extremely difficult to master the pace and bit the iPhone at its own game. It is very easy to learn Reacting, but reacting fast requires certain strategies, including handling your iPhone in the proper angle.

Rating for the concept: Nothing less than 4 for this ultra-smart concept.

Interface: Making all these physical gestures is not a cakewalk. However, the developers of the React app have done just that. The app has a pretty addictive interface where different colors and color schemes accompany the different actions you need to react to!

Plus there is a voice inside the app that has something in it to completely bowl you over. Let us hold it back for you to explore what is inside the app.

Rating for the interface: 4

You will like the app if you have some competitive juice in you. It will also really help you in mastering some of the amazing capabilities of the iPhone that you can use for playing other games that require you to master these actions – (Hit Tennis for instance).

A lesson in how to use the iPhone’s touchscreen and accelerometer and touchscreen. And all wrapped up with colorful graphics and super sounds. Definitely worth well over the current $0.99. Grab it before the developers decide to hike the price.