Angle Meter Touch Review

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wp-image-13859" />Angle Meter Touch isn’t the first time we have seen an app that turns your Nokia’s accelerometer into a spirit level of sorts but it could well be the ultimate as it packs in a nice display and a great level of sensitivity. So, does it truly measure up? Find out with our Angle Meter Touch review…

When Nokia started putting motion sensors in its mobiles a few years back, the original intention was to enable nifty tricks like noting the camera’s orientation to check if a picture needed to be rotated or not. Coders quickly picked up on this untapped resource and began writing apps that pushed the motion sensor further – novelty apps like the one that showed a virtual glass of beer that ‘emptied’ as it was tilted, simple tilt-sensitive games and eventually some more practical apps that tried to use the sensor as a measuring device such as a pedometer or a spirit level.

Where most spirit level apps do their best to ape a real level, complete with a graphical ‘bubble’, Angle Meter Touch tries to show a little more detail. Instead of a simple moving blob you get a semicircle divided by degrees and a precise, thin line that moves with your phone to show the (pretty much) exact angle.

We have been critical of Offscreen Technologies in the past – too many of their Touch apps seem only half thought out or lacking in som ecrucial feature, but Angle Meter Touch really feels right. The indicator needle moves exactly as you would expect and the single control button in the centre of the screen instantly recalibrates the device to set the current angle as zero – ideal if you want to measure slight fluctuations from the current angle.

We are sure there are features that could be added – an alert that sounds when you tilt more than a predefined angle for example – but this would fly in the face of Offscreen’s ‘keep it simple’ aesthetic. As it is, this just works and works well.

Exactly how useful you might find this app for doing actual DIY will depend largely on your willingness to put £300 worth of phone near a toolbox full of objects that could seriously damage it. Although yet to use it in anger ourselves, we are pretty confident that Angle Meter Touch will perform as advertised.

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Price: Free
Size: 0.38 MB
DOWNLOAD: Angle Meter Touch

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