When the selfie wave hit human crowd, much was spoken and written about it and much more was clicked. Now that it has come to become a way of life, tongues are liberally wagging against it; experts are contemplating its pros and cons and some people are expressing their anger and disgust on being captured to be soon uploaded. But, selfie is officially here to stay! Love it, hate it, it is not going away.
Says who? Says the name ‘selfie’ which can now be officially found in every lexicon, says the number of apps which are flooding the market to make selfie taking easy, Whistle is the newest addition to this family!
What is Whistle?
The name gives away a part of what the app is designed to do. An app for Android users (fortunate, I must say) designed to aid selfie taking just by way of whistling. By what? Yes, you’ve heard it right, WHISTLE and it takes a picture.
Is it any good?
It is a lot more than good. It should be every selfie lover’s staple app. It takes over where your photography skills takes a vacation (or, is always on one).
WHISTLE and its impeccable auto focus zeroes in the object you wish to capture.
Driving around in a car? No worries! Place your phone in an appropriate position and WHISTLE; it would break into a selfie taking sprint (of the landscape, of you, of anything and everything you wish to capture).
But, it’s an app, most don’t support portrait and landscape simultaneously.
Well, WHISTLE does.
I am sure, right after it captures a picture it puts you through an excruciatingly long waiting period.
It doesn’t make you wait for a beat. It’s super fast which means click, edit and upload in tandem, tada!
But what if I am a poor whistler? It sounds more like swoosh of air than a perfect piercing whistle.
Sweat not! Set the detection sensitivity in the app’s settings.
Apps and resolutions usually do not go hand in hand.
Well, this one does. They get along so well that you have a lot of (literally, lot of) resolution to choose from.
Then there are the usual goodies-timer settings, zooming in and out, toggle between front and rear camera and so forth.
The bad part….
Is the ever-present, unexpectedly-pooping-up advertisement which would pester you to upgrade to its pro version. Further unlike Google camera, Whistle can only deal with pictures nothing more, nothing less!
Worth giving a shot?
Yes, do not rule it out. It has the potential of kicking out a lot of apps out there out of the business.
