Mobile · 2018-01-27

‘Die With Me’, a chatroom app that only works when your phone’s battery is dying – New app

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There are plenty of texting & chat apps available for your phone, but none of them are like this one. Die With Me lets you enter the chatroom only when your battery’s charge status is below 5%. If not you’re out of luck. As the app’s motto says, ‘Die together in a chatroom on your way to offline peace.’

To use the app, just wait until you have less than 5% on your battery, of course, or you won’t be able to get in. Select a nickname & it will let you chat with other users that are in the same boat as you, so you can commiserate & say goodbye to each other. Let’s face it, you won’t have a lot of time left to do anything else with your nearly dead battery.

If you find that the chatroom is empty, you can always scroll back & take a look at some of the older messages & maybe get some inspiration so that you can leave a trace of woe for future dying users.

The app is under development by Belgian designer Dries Depoorter & Canadian coder David Surprenant. Dries is a media artist & freelance concept provider who has dabbled in electronics & media arts, while David has worked in mobile & web tech projects. Their aim in creating this app is to make something useful for people that are running low on battery while consuming very little energy in the process.

The fact that Apple has admitted to slowing down iPhones on purpose as the phones aged to conserve battery coincided with their decision to release the app. The irony of this doesn’t seem to be lost on them.

Apparently, the app was rejected by Apple’s App Store on a number of occasions before finally being accepted, after they included a feature for reporting messages & banning users. In fact, Apple keeps on rejecting updates to the app, claiming that the app is not useful enough (who would think?).

Click here to download Die With Me on your iOS device.

Click here to download Die With Me on your Android device.

 

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