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I have a major love for smartphones, in particular Android smartphones (but I'm very much into all sorts of gadgets and will give anything a chance) and I often look and try random applications that show up in the market.
The other day Rando (by ustwo) popped up, and I opened up to find it was an anonymous photo sharing application, you send an image to a random person, you receive a random image back. Awesome! I think this is a great idea and think it could lead to creativity (especially since the image is a circle crop).
I decided to go for a quick walk and fire off a bunch of images, nothing too special just some outdoors stuff on or around a bike path.
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| Taking a picture screen |
A little while after I took a whole bunch of photos, they started getting delivered to all sorts of random places, and then I began receiving images, also from a wide variety of locations. Though some seem to have no location attached to the message.
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| Notifications sometimes show locations |
Now I imagined the pictures I would receive would be a little lack luster, and that is OK, mine were also not the best quality, but what I actually received was rather disappointing. Let me share with you now the collection of shots I received.
So two legs, one cat, one dog, some dirty laundry, piggy bank, shoe logo, computer screen, CD artwork... etc..etc. Wow! Can't say I'm completely shocked but I can say I was disappointed. I was really hoping some creativity would show up in at least one photo to give me a glimmer of hope that this app was even remotely worth my time because I really like the concept.
Unfortunately, it is not. I made one more attempt and received a picture of a pillow that had a Sailor Moon print on it. Ugh, frustrating. This application would be extremely awesome had they allowed people to join a group interest so that you can kinda give and get similar themes. Even better, if my Google + circles could privately send within a circle, I could only imagine I'd be wanting to take photos using this program all day. Unfortunately, at the moment it is just far too unrewarding for me personally.
If you'd like to try out the app, it is available on both Android and iOS
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rando/id588683021?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.rando
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