Why Talking Angela App is Completely Safe For Children

Facebook hoax from a year ago has resurfaced, saying the Talking Angela animated virtual cat app is a front for a pedophile ring to collect data on children, but this could not be further from the truth. Security firm Sophos Security, famed for detecting new types of malware, well- tested Angela exchanges last year and found no problems with it, although rumors continue to hunt for the app.

Talking Angela, launched in 2012, is an iOS cute interactive app for Android Smartphones and tablets, where users can interact with the cat Parisian animated by means of a text or a microphone and stroking or poking it by tapping and swiping the screen. The app is one in a series of Talking Animal Friends by Outfit7 directly to children and adults, including tom cat talking (the first original app launched in -2010 that is very similar to Talking Angela simple but slow) a talking parrot, giraffe, birds, dog even on Christmas. The applications have been downloaded 1.2 billion times around the world and Disney/Hollywood Records has a partnership with Outfit7 YouTube videos featuring Angela and Tom singing synthesizer - heavy songs live.

Users can into the device's microphone, which Angela will repeat back to you squeaky voice. You can buy cat presents such as clothes and other items using virtual coins to be paid by the in - app purchases, but there is no text chat in the app. However the engineer actually does to children using text chat option. When users first start the application, they are asked if they would like to change on the Child Mode, which means that the child is only in contact with the cat by speaking into a microphone or pressing the buttons on the screen.

The application has a ' chat - Bot " programmed to give answers to the questions or statements in which he was asked. Discussing Angela asks why loneliness, and when he answered, "I have no friends "the application answers" It is raining in Paris, so I can not go to museums. "When we say" Lonely " and the app responds "Let 's talk about friends. Who is your best friend? "The application also allows the user to answer form., We played the "Valentine's Day", where Angela asks a science - based trivia questions, such as " When you see someone you like, do your students get smaller ? True or False ".

To encourage in app purchase, the application gives the user the time free virtual coins to spend on clothes for Angela. If a child runs out of virtual coins, the application sets up a picture of advising the child to give the parent device to turn on and pay for the virtual characters. The problem, however, is that the child can easily find the setting to change the election Child Mode off by themselves, by clicking on the smiley face icon and Angela on the screen and sliding off options, as described by the picture put up with this app. That is where there is a danger that a child could wrack up a great iTunes Bill by a number of virtual coins, so the engineer really should fix this, perhaps by a different situation in the menu, and it certainly takes away the painting, where all but acts as a ' how to ' for a child who wants to change the mode to close.

When it comes to the camera mode, it is possible to take pictures with the app, but ONLY with it to share photos on Facebook or Twitter. Images are everywhere, they just get stored on the device. And can express a child in the camera app can see and have a cat to respond, but for one, does not work well, and again, nothing is written.