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User Rating4.20/5OTTER answers texts, saves time, saves lives… Features: Auto-reply w/ timer, Editable/grouped responses, GPS Mode, Parental Control option(GPS), One Touch Text Responses.
Price: Free, $1.99, $3.99
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OTTER Android App is meant for reducing SMS text messaging distractions while driving. It features predefined and editable one-touch popup responses you can send back while driving (like “Yes”, “No” or “I’m running late”). However the real benefit is in the GPS mode, when enabled detects when you’re driving and if you receive a text message it will automatically respond (like Drivesafe.ly) with a predefined message and silences the phone (we learned from interviewing the developers that GPS mode disables itself and resumes normal audio volume when it detects you have not been driving for more than six minutes). Parental controls give parents with teen drivers the control to password protect OTTER ensuring it’s doing the job (but you can get around this by uninstalling the app, combat that with Protector or App Protector).
If you already don’t know then now you know AndroidTapp.com and parent company are advocates of “no texting while driving” campaigns and this app gets respect knuckles for that effort!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNJiu3t9Yo8
Very useful for drivers to curb the texting and driving habit and parents with teen drivers.
Intended for use in the car presumably with car charger as to not kill battery power. GPS mode is convenient, would be cool if it could disable itself after a period of not detecting driving and resume normal phone ring volume. Else you have to remember to disable GPS mode.
Intended for use every time you drive. Other use cases can be when you need to disconnect from your always-connected Android phone.
The user interface is mostly basic settings menus and the popup received (like SMS Popup) appears atop everything else, even shows when the phone is sleep.
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Should you Download OTTER? Yes! Can Reduce Texting While Driving Hazards!
Don’t forget to check out our Interview with Erik Wood Developer of OTTER for Curbing Texting While Driving
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First of all, thank you for developing this important, 21st century teen app. It is an excellent approach to an important topic. We should also let you know about a nationwide nonprofit program which aims at reducing the impact of such teen texting/e-issues. You may find the program’s website at http://www.MyTtext.com . It’s a unique program that no other nonprofit in the nation is doing right now (that we can find!).
Our TText program delivers a positive daily text message for teens straight to their cell phones. The daily messages range in content from teen-related humor, to news, to positive-outcome messages designed to inform teens about risky behavioral choices (e.g. drug and alcohol use, safety issues like texting while driving, teen sex, etc.). The point is to build a virtual relationship with the teens through the daily content and then to sprinkle in like salt the healthy messages. We also have the capability to conduct surveys with the teens directly. For instance we can text them on Monday morning and ask them, “How many of your friends took a drink of alcohol this weekend?” and thus receive live behavioral data straight from the teens themselves. Parents can sign their teens up for the program for only $5/month on the website.
Anyway, just trying to get the word out about this! If you have an e-mail list or a website where you can share about this, please let me know. Would love to give you more info. about it, if you are interested.
Thanks for all you do,
Cody Moore
Executive Director
The Tree House Center for Youth, Inc.
1505 Chipeta Ave.
Grand Junction, CO 81501
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