Flashlight App? for your smart phone?

~Lenore

~Lenore

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Have any of you heard about this? What do you think about it?

[video]https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q8xz8xKEFvU[/video]
 

Got the app for our iPhones (4s). Don't use it much, but, if needed, it's there. However, if used too much, well definitely drain the battery. It's nice to have a flashlight without looking all over for one. We carry one in our vehicle, but if the batteries go dead in it, we are SOL. But, with this app, as long as the iPhone battery is strong, it will work fine.

Actually I seen a couple of Game Wardens using flashlights on their iPhones when looking for a missing hiker in the woods. A couple of other guys that were with them had regular flashlights, but when one of the Game Wardens left the group to look at something that could be a downed hiker, he used his iPhone flashlight. It WAS weird seeing a Game Warden using an iPhone flashlight, but of them were. The show was called, Back Woods Law filmed in Maine.
 
CR why don't you carry a wind up torch in your vehicles..I keep one in my shed, in the under stairs cupboard and in the glove compartment of my car, never need to worry about it running out of batteries. 1 minute winding gives about 30 minutes of good strong light.. there's loads of different types to choose from and they are small and enough to store away neatly

http://www.mountainwarehouse.com/ca...8ZrR5DLe_bsB66SIhpOS1yvFRF5QEVPo7AaAhd88P8HAQ
 
We have a wind-up flashlight that is also an AM radio. It stays in the apartment. The iPhone app is a nice one to have.
 
I believe the video is addressing the permissions that you are giving up by installing that flashlight app...Not if the flashlight is a good idea or not.

A lot of phone apps today include a lot of unwanted permissions!!
 
The only "permissions" we get on our 4s iPhone is "Your location" for maps and store locations and "Notifications" for updates, whatever. Our flashlight app never ask us "permission" for anything.

Sometimes, to have an app work right, you have to give certain "permissions". We don't have a problem with that. Heck, whenever we go to a Boat Show, different vendors want our e-mail address and I simply say "nope, get enough e-mails as it is".

Some things in life we do need to be afraid of and not do, while other things are fine.
 
ClassicRockr said:
The only "permissions" we get on our 4s iPhone is "Your location" for maps and store locations and "Notifications" for updates, whatever. Our flashlight app never ask us "permission" for anything.

Sometimes, to have an app work right, you have to give certain "permissions". We don't have a problem with that. Heck, whenever we go to a Boat Show, different vendors want our e-mail address and I simply say "nope, get enough e-mails as it is".

Some things in life we do need to be afraid of and not do, while other things are fine.
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Read what you are agreeing to when you download/install any app. Sorry, I just will not download apps like this.

Snopes..

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