The Star Trek communicator was arguably the original cellphone, and clearly the model for Motorola’s Startac (even the name was a thinly disguised homage). The iPhone, in turn, is obviously the closest thing us 21st century humans have to the technology of the future. It fits, then, that there should be an application which turns your iPhone into its future counterpart.
And of course, there is. The $0.99 application looks just like the prop from the original series, and consists of the same useless flashing lights. The sounds are pretty much dead on, and the very best part, guaranteed to make you smile, is that you can “open” the “lid” with a flick of your wrist. If you’re running this on an iPhone, you can actually dial numbers from within the app using a custom, retro dial-pad (the iPod Touch, obviously, can’t do this).
Beam me up, Scotty!
Product page [iTunes]
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