Fun App Review- Pocket Shaker for Nokia 5800

When was the last time you played with a Percussion beater? Unless, you are a musician, we bet that you wouldn’t have laid your hands on this one since high school. How about fixing that urge straight away? Yeah, we are not kidding you can now get a feel of Percussion beater right on your 5800, courtesy Pocket Shaker.

Pocket Shaker by Offscr Technologies is an excellent virtual percussion beater that makes good use of the accelerometer and the stereo speakers onboard our 5800. Curios to know how this latest offering by Offscr fares on our 5800? Hit on the jump button to find out.

As you can see, the interface does look like a typical percussion beater. And how do you play a percussion beater? Ofcourse by shaking it and yeah thats how you play your percussion beater on 5800 too. Aptly titled “Pocket Shaker”, the application can actually mimic percussion beater feel on our 5800, meaning you gotta shake your phone to play the instrument.

While shaking and playing with the app is real fun, we gotta warn our readers against slippery hands and carelessness. A firm grip on the phone is of paramount importance while playing with this app.

What we Like?

1. Percussion beater like interface
2. Good synchronisation within accelerometer and speakers

What we don’t like?

1. Over-sensitive accelerometer can at times spoil the fun

Verdict

Phone Shaker is a cute little fun application, the kind of which you would love to show around among non 5800ers. While the app may not be anywhere close to the range and quality of a real life percussion beater, Phone Shaker packs in more features than can be expected from a free fun application.

Download Phone Shaker for free from the Ovi store (login required)