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SmackTalk! for iPhone: My Prediction for the Next Entertainment Craze

Mobile Content Today  Apr 13 09

Image courtesy of Marcus Satellite

I ran across the $1.99 iPhone app while scanning the iTunes App Store and was surprised it was no higher than #61 in the current list of top 100 paid apps...

SmackTalk! 1.1 (iTunes App Store)

It basically automates the process playing back whatever is said to it what might be called a chipmunk voice.

YouTube video courtesy of perfectbuzz

My suspicion is that this app will climb quite a bit higher in the paid apps list or, at the very least, hover in the top 100 for quite a while. My guess is that parents of small children (and maybe some not so small at all) will be the main consumers. Full story...

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