The iPhone 5S might be the model with a fingerprint sensor integrated into its homekey and the first smartphone to use a 64-bit processor. But there's one thing that it can't do when compared to its more colorful counterpart, the iPhone 5C -- play Connect Four.
Flipcase is a new app for the iPhone 5C that turns the colorful device -- and its optional protective case -- into a real-life miniature game of Connect Four.
The free app works in conjunction with the case by, as the name suggests, requiring an iPhone 5C owner to flip the phone's case so its hole-filled back cover is positioned over the screen, turning it into the favourite childhood game.
Then it's just a matter of tapping holes and columns to try and connect four dots vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
Although the iPhone 5C is less than a month old, Flipcase is by no means the first app designed to make the most of the handset's ventilated protective cases.
For example, CaseCollage [1] is an app that allows users to create a custom photo, graphics and text designs for personalizing their phones, turning each of the case's holes into a miniature picture frame [2] .
Meanwhile, research published this week by the U.S.-based Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) shows that the iPhone 5S is currently outselling the less-expensive iPhone 5C by more than 2:1.
Some 64% of American iPhone customers surveyed at the end of September said they chose the 5S over the 5C. Only 27% had been tempted by the plastic 5C handset.
Links
- ^ CaseCollage (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ each of the case's holes into a miniature picture frame (www.youtube.com)
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