Star Trek PADD App – Now Available For iPhone & iPad
Stardate 2012.12.04
Developed by ArcTouch for CBS Interactive, and previously only available for the Apple iPad, the new Star Trek PADD app version 2 is now optimized for all iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices, including the new iPhone 5, and the iPad mini. The app features a rich database of information, full screen images, actual sound effects from the series, and an authentic LCARS experience of being in the Star Trek universe.
Updated Database, Siri Integration, and More!
Read the Star Trek PADD app press release, or see the version 2 features below.
- Native support for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad mini.
- Updated databank with over 170 new entries, such as Gorgan (possibly the last known inhabitant of the planet Triacus), and enhanced data and images to many existing entries.
- The main PADD screen now has a button marked MESSAGES that shows communiqués from Starfleet Command.
- Starbase Intelligent Response Integration (Siri) for voice-activated searching.
- Subspace “push notifications” allow Starfleet to notify users about enhancements to the PADD databank.
- Full screen databank images.
- Live updating of databank content, which is delivered over terrestrial wireless channels and appears automatically.
- Enhancements to terrestrial data feeds from Facebook and Twitter.
- Under 50 megaquads of data for initial download stream. (Using the lingo of 21st century earth, the app can now be installed over a 3G, 4G, or LTE connections, without requiring WiFi.)
