The free Clink-Clink app from Waterford presents you with a virtual glass of champagne or wine so that you can clink glasses with another iPhone user also running the app. Is it gimicky? Does it get old soon? Is it just a promotion for Waterford Crystal? Yes to all three questions, but the app is free, and it might be something cute for you to play with this week as you are waiting for the ball to drop on New Year's Eve.
Choose a Waterford glass (you have five choices) and the glass appears on the screen, filled with champagne or wine. As you move the glass back and forth, the virtual liquid moves as if it were real.
The app has three modes. If you and a friend are both using the app, choose the "Toast a Friend" option and you will hear the sound of glasses clinking as the iPhone's motion accelerator senses movement, followed by the app presenting you with a toast. In the Settings, you can choose one or more toast categories such as New Year, International Cheers, Wedding and Birthday.
You can also choose the "Make a Friend" option to share your own Contacts card, or your Facebook information, with the person with whom you are sharing a toast. (If you choose the Facebook option, the app will post your toast to your Facebook wall.) You both have to also specifically enable Contacts and/or Facebook sharing in your Preferences for this to work.
Finally, if you are alone, you can choose the "Just Play" option to just toast yourself. I suppose virtual toasting is better than drinking alone.
After you have used the app a few times, you will be given the option to provide your e-mail address to Waterford. And when enough people use the program, all users will get some sort of coupon from Waterford. This is a promotional app, after all. According to the Creativity advertising website, ad agency Gotham created this app for Waterford.
This is a cute little app that might provide you with a few minutes of amusement, and with the contact sharing component could even help you land a new client or make a new friend.