Even in 2010, Outfit7 understood social sharing. Version 1.0 allowed users to record short videos of Tom’s antics. Once recorded, you could upload these videos directly to YouTube or share them via email or MMS. This feature was crucial to the game's viral spread, as millions of user-generated "Talking Tom singing" videos flooded the internet.
Talking Tom was the ultimate app to show off what a new smartphone could do. It proved how sensitive the microphone was and how responsive the screen could be.