Troll app pretends to charge phone with sunlight
Troll app pretends to charge phone with sunlight
Troll app pretends to charge phone with sunlight, fools thousands
"A groundbreaking new Android app is rising in popularity in the Google Play store. It’s called Solar Charger and lets you use the phone’s screen to charge the battery with sunlight.
Yes, of course it’s a fake. The app’s description says so itself, in case your common sense failed you. It’s still a very interesting app, here’s why.
First off, the app’s creator got pissed off at all the people who don’t bother reading the description before downloading an app and then wonder why it doesn’t work. Solar Charger is currently sitting at 1,500 angry one star ratings, but considering it has seen over half a million downloads, the number of angry people is probably much greater."
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Re: Troll app pretends to charge phone with sunlight
I saw that the other day. Laughed my self silly with all the angry 1 stars .
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jamin can code? That's news to me...
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This man is a god.KALSTER wrote:the app’s creator
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There are other apps I have seen that are not meant as trolls, but explicitly to make money from the gullibility of others. One of these is the phone x-ray scanner application, as advertised on eTV. Fair game or not?
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how is this any different to 99% of the "apps" available again?
kudos to the dev/s for milking the mindless... ie, "smartphone" users...
maybe we should write an "app" for detecting fake "apps" and flagging everything with the word "app" as fake....
kudos to the dev/s for milking the mindless... ie, "smartphone" users...
maybe we should write an "app" for detecting fake "apps" and flagging everything with the word "app" as fake....
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Oh we have this cool ghost scanner - you walk around your house and it shows you little blips that are spirits and sometimes even says words that it finds when it encounters these spectral beings. Totally awesome - I have three spectral forms in my bedroom and one in the cupboard.
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5 star idea this...
Gonna buy 1000 smart phones, install this app on all of them and line them up on my roof for unlimited solar energy.
Gonna buy 1000 smart phones, install this app on all of them and line them up on my roof for unlimited solar energy.
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Re: Troll app pretends to charge phone with sunlight
Or you can sell them for double the price since they never need to be charged
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Um why when you could just buy actual working solar cells for cheaper.jamin_za wrote:5 star idea this...
Gonna buy 1000 smart phones, install this app on all of them and line them up on my roof for unlimited solar energy.
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You have much to learn about our friend hamin_aus, young padawan.Cyrax wrote:Um why when you could just buy actual working solar cells for cheaper.jamin_za wrote:5 star idea this...
Gonna buy 1000 smart phones, install this app on all of them and line them up on my roof for unlimited solar energy.
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Hahaha..Stuart wrote:You have much to learn about our friend hamin_aus, young padawan.Cyrax wrote:Um why when you could just buy actual working solar cells for cheaper.jamin_za wrote:5 star idea this...
Gonna buy 1000 smart phones, install this app on all of them and line them up on my roof for unlimited solar energy.
Yes.. the troll force is strong with this one.
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This is pretty hilarious!
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