It’s time for iPhone Apps
Filed Under Apple on 2008-07-20, 23:58
Yes, I went out and did it. One and a half hours in line last Wednesday at the San Francisco Apple store on Stockton and I walked out with a 16gb iPhone 3G. So far I’ve been very impressed. It has it’s downsides, things that the Sidekick still does infinitely better, but it does do some things better than the Sidekick. The 3G speeds, integrated GPS, and App Store with tons of apps (500+?) are what finally sold me. I’ll be going into detail more on various aspects in the near future I’m sure, but in the meantime, here are the apps I’ve loaded in the last 4 days:
Pandora: #1 reason to get a 3G iPhone.
Twitterific: When it works, it’s good. Not great, but good. Likes to crash and reboot my phone every now and then
AIM: Blows. Sidekick is far superior.
MySpace/Facebook: Maybe I’ll actually keep in touch with friends when I can log in while in a stall.
Last.fm: Was buggy and not working last time I tried.
WeatherBug: A little more info than the normal Weather App
Movies.app: Was kind of neat to be able to pull up all the info on The Dark Knight, including directions to the theater in less than a minute
Yelp: Have yet to use this even though we use the website all the time. I doubt it’s handy much outside of the Bay Area from what I hear though.
Epocrates Rx: You never know when you might need to look up drug interactions
Remote: Controling iTunes and having album art on the remote is pretty neat, and will be handy for parties, but would be more useful if I had a dedicated iTunes machine and not a laptop I have to hook up to speakers
Exposure: meh.. Flickr access, but it needs work
Google: nice and quick Google searching, quicker than safari
Graffitio: augmented reality ftw! This is straight out of some cyberpunk novel, I just hope more people start using it, and the app gets improved.
Spanish/Mandarin Audio Phrasebook: I could use some freshening up on my foreign languages.
Urbanspoon: Haven’t used this yet, but I know one night we’ll be sitting around saying “Where should we eat dinner?” and I’ll bust this out, watch my girlfriend roll her eyes, and randomly select a place to eat.
Shazam/midomi: Haven’t used either of these yet, but figure they’ll come in handy sometime when I need to identify a song. I will be real curious to see if they’ll be able to pick up on songs in dj mixes that need identifying.
MealSplitter: probably worthless
PayPal: Will definitely come in handy. Another step towards this cyberpunk novel future where physical money starts getting phased out. How long before you can but vending machine snacks in the US with your phone?
TouchTrain: Damn, I’ve got some big fat thumbs.
Loopt/Whrl: I’m really interested in all the location aware apps, need more time to check them out
Tuner: Streaming shoutcast stations? yes please! BassDrive without a computer = awesome
JirboBreak: Figured I needed at least one game for when I’m really really bored
myLite: obligatory (free) flashlight app
Tagged: Apple - Good, Gadgets & Hardware, Geek, iPhone, Sidekick