Sonic Lighter is yet another Virtual Lighter application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The best part about this virtual lighter is that it has other features included. So if you get bored of just the lighter then at least there are other things to entertain you.
Sonic Lighter falls into one of those toy/fun categories of applications. While it is fun for a few minutes, even with the additional features it can lose it’s ‘new car smell’ very quickly.
So at the core of this application it is just a virtual lighter. You swipe the flint and watch the flame ignite. Thankfully the developer team Smule recognized that such an application needs more so they added more features. Instead of just seeing a regular flame you get to pick one of two colors. While I think this would be better if there was a generic color picker, they use 2 colors to ask a question and give you a visualization of the results. So when I opened Sonic Lighter it asked me who I like more, Godzilla or King Kong.
If you pick Godzilla you get to see a green flame, if you pick King Kong you get to see a Yellow flame. They give you a ‘map’ feature, so that you can see what everyone else thinks too. So you can visually see what everyone else says, and even see a regions’ majority(so many Americans like Godzilla more than Europeans).
Smule spent a lot of time on the detail on just the flame alone. Tilting the device to the right will make the flame angle on the other side(just like a real lighter). If you blow into the microphone of the iPhone then you will see the flame wobble, and if you blow too hard then the flame goes out.
Another fun feature of this application is the ability to ‘light’ other Sonic Lighter applications on completely separate devices. So if you put your lit device next to one that doesn’t have a flame, it will ignite the unlit device. . .like magic! I haven’t been able to test this personally(I don’t have 2 iPhones), but I have seen a few videos on YouTube, and it is a very unique feature.
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