iPhone - app love
So, I’m nearly a week into the new iPhone, and without doubt it is the App Store that elevates this from a cool phone to a product in a category all of its own.
If anything, it now feels like the direct descendent of the palm 10 years ago. And, to be honest, I wouldn’t mind having the option of graffiti input!
Anyway - my favourite apps so far.
Beat Maker: is an£11.99 sequencer. Frankly, I have no real music making skills at all, but this is pure brilliance…
ZenbeLists - obviously for a not-quite-GTD-er like myself, you’ve got to have a good list app. And this one works nicely and syncs well.
NetNewsWire- I’ve pretty much moved my RSS life to GoogleReader for reasons of portability. But, this is a better experience on the iPhone- so I’ve used it for all my daily/ essential feeds (Guardian/ PaidContent etc). Their clippings service almost compensates for a lack of simple delicious integration.
Twitterific - my personal jury is still hung on Twitter, but if you’re going do it on the iPhone, you might as well do it in style.
Last.fm - so,my current favourite iPhone trick is to fire up Last.fm recommended music station over the speaker on a 3G network…personalised radio, on demand, anywhere you want it…
Shozu - well it’s good to have a quick link to Flickr, and I liked this a while ago on an old Symbian phone, not sure if there’s a better way to do it!
My only grumble is the fact that it needs rebooting quite a bit. In particular to get the GPS working….but more on that another time.
Simon @ July 30, 2008
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