New Competitor to ShutUp: FlipSilent

While Samir’s ShutUp was scheduled for release this month, it has yet to make an appearance. But luckily we don’t have to wait any longer as another application with similar “turn-to-silence” functionality has appeared in the form of FlipSilent from the guys over at the Symbian Blog. FlipSilent is a pretty small  app which uses the built-in accelerometer of devices such as the N95, N95 8GB, N82 and N93i. All you need to do is just flip the phone to make it go into the silent profile, hang up the phone call or both. For a pretty small app it’s fairly customizable and features:

1) Flip Over
    - silent profile: make your phone go to the silent profile
    - Hang up Call: Hang up the call when a call is coming in
    - Both: Do both mentioned above  — DEFAULT
2) Flip Back:
    - previous profile: use the profile you used before — DEFAULT
    - Silent profile: remain in the silent profile
    - Standard profile: use the standard profile
3) Auto Start
    - No: start without the phone boot
    - Yes: Start with the phone boot with the configuration interface
    - YES & Hide: Start with phone boot, and goes into background

I’ve been testing the app for a few hours now and it’s pretty impressive and simple in operation. It’s truly one of those things to impress friends and family. One thing I miss though is the ability to set the sensitivity. It would also be nice if the developers could allow you to use other actions other than “flipping”. Maybe shaking or doing a half-circles to achieve other task. For more informance head on to the Symbian blog.