I finally got my very own iPhone this weekend, and I’m very excited about it.
A lot of my geek friends are talking about the Android-based phones now and some are even acting like the iPhones are a bit passé, but I don’t care. This thing is slick. It sure beats the pants off of my old Motorola. The extent of that crummy old thing’s “smart phone” capability was some “web browsing” feature that I’d have to pay a buck for every once in a while when my thumb would land a centimeter away from its intended target.
My wife thinks I’m an early adopter, but in this case at least, I’m much closer to the long tail than the bleeding edge. I’ve been trying to figure out which apps to get, but I must admit I’m a little lost. I need your help! Here is what I have so far:
- News Apps: New York Times, BBC, and NPR
- Reference: IMDb, Wikipedia Mobile, YellowPages
- Google Apps
- SimpleNote
- TweetDeck
- InstaPaper
- Dropbox
- 1Password
- Pandora
- Skype
So, tell me: What am I missing? Which apps are your “must haves”? Which ones do you use all the time?
Looks like you’ve got the gotta-haves covered (Instapaper and SimpleNote)
I like Reeder for my RSS feeds
iSSH or pTerm for remote terminal
NightStand for my alarm
GPS Drive for turn-by-turn GPS (by MotionX)
Cool new phone!
I like the following…
Gernal Apps
Twitter (i prefer it to tweetdeck)
Wolfram (very well done app)
ToDo (compliments the calendar app, but adds tons of features)
Wikipanion (wikipedia client)
Vid/Camera
CameraBag (some very tasteful effects for your photo lib)
CinemaFXV (great effects for short videos)
Audio
FourTrack (a very usable four track for recording music)
Decibel (measure levels)
Dragon (incredibly smart dictation software)
Travel
There are a ton of lonely planet apps that ROCK
when im in the bay area i use iBart, and in NYC i use hopstop
Weather Channel app has great radar view.
Best app ever: Siri. Thank me later.
:-P
What’s an app?
Thanks, everyone, for the recommendations so far. Looks like some great stuff.
I waaaaaaant one! *whine*
What is iPhone? Motorola c350 is much better :)
Seriously, i like different games, try poker or avalanche :)
User Dad:
An App stands for an Application. It’s what apple shortened their software to be called. It’s supposed to sound ‘trendy’ and I guess that it’s better than always calling it an application.
If your into games then:
-Angry Birds
-DoodleJump
-FlightControl
-PlantsVsZombies
-TapTap
-TapWord
-Zen Bound
Hi Karl,
Great app ideas, thanks for posting! Just a couple of superfluous ones to add:
imapmyrun
Words Free – a scrabble game, contact me to play when you set it up!
CheckWord – just a yes/no if a word is legit in scrabble. but no definitions:(
compass
doodlejump – for the kids to play
pamela
I have Urban Spoon for food, Flight for travel, I also use Zillow to look at real estate and for news, I have CNN besides the ones you already installed.
I love IPhone!
Excellent recommendations! Thanks, all. Two more that I have recently purchased and love are Calvetica and Due.
I’m in the market for a new phone. A year and a half later; iPhone or Droid?
iPhone. No question.
Kindle!!! I love, love, love my Kindle app. :)