POW – Review
By App Type: Uncategorized
Our rating: 
By: POW
Version #: 1.0 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
Date Released: 2009-06-14
Developer: James Anthony
Price: 0.00
User Rating:
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POW is one of those apps that you download on a whim on those days when you’re perusing the App Store for weird, free stuff. Taking a page from the Batman TV show from the 60’s, the app makes a punching noise when you hold it in your hand and move your arm forwards and back, pretending to hit someone or something. It can be adjusted between right-handed and left-handed people.
The app is somewhat tricky to use and the sounds don’t always occur when you make the motion (perhaps the app is trying to adjust when you move rapidly). The app is free and has to be supported somehow, thus there are ads running along the bottom.
It is possible to customize the sounds the app makes and there are even duck quacks.
It’s not a great app. The graphics aren’t really impressive and the sound quality is only fair. It’ll keep you occupied for maybe a minute as you kid around with a four-year-old boy and pretend to hit him. Then he’ll want to take it and pretend to hit his friends. And so on. And so on. But it’s not a great app.
Despite it’s price, I can only recommend this one if you have the free space on your iPhone or iPod touch and like to pretend hitting people. The app would be more cool if it had more of a Batman 60’s TV show theme, but you can’t have everything.
Quick Take
Value:Medium-Low.
Would I Buy Again:For free? Yeah probably.
Learning Curve:Low.
Who Is It For:People who like to pretend to hurt other people (professional wrestlers?)
What I Like:Free. Cute.
What I Don't Like:Mediocre graphics and sound.
Final Statement:Pow! Wap! Bam! Crunch! Holy Mediocre Apps, Batman!
