Pen Pals

Jacob Jones | May 10, 2010 Entertainment, Social Networking

User rating:

(24 votes, average: 3.08 out of 5)

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Dos Hombres introduces a relatively unique concept to the iPhone with the release of their app named Pen Pals. Like the name suggests, Pen Pals hooks you up with a complete stranger from another part of the world (more than likely you’ll be paired up with someone from the USA) so you can converse awkwardly about life in your part of the world. I say awkwardly because the majority of the messages I recieved were from guys looking to score and underage girls who were incapable of holding an intelligent conversation. A few messages I got read: “a/s/l” and “hi…!!!!!!11!!”. A massive turn off if you’re the kind of person who wants to meet an interesting person and hold a decent conversation with said interesting person. I don’t blame the app though; just the people who use this app for stupid reasons.

So if you are willing to sift through all the garbage that get’s thrown your way you’ll find a few special people who use Pen Pals the way it was intended to be used. After picking through all the junk, I met a very interesting man from Australia and an equally as interesting woman from China. Unfortunately, Pen Pals only sends y0u a push notification when you recieve messages from people who replied to your message and not when you get new messages. Consequently, the first message they sent me sat in my inbox for a couple days until I remembered to check my inbox and found them. Hopefully, they’ll read this review and fix this little problem in their next update.

Other than my small problem with the push notifications, Pen Pals is incredibly well put together. The menu is very pleasing to look at and the developers really hit the nail on the head with this app’s graphic design and layot. You can pick this app up for $1.99 in the app store.

iTunes Link — Pen Pals

Version 1.0

Reviewed on iPhone 3G 3.1.3