5 Essential iPhone Apps

tech: 5 Essential iPhone Apps

July 15 2008 | WilHarris

Today on ChannelFlip Tech I’m giving you my pick of the applications in the iTunes App Store for the iPhone. There are over 500 apps out there, but which ones are worth your time? Join me for a look at my five essential apps:

Evernote
Where?
Last.FM
Midomi (or Shazam)
Cro-Mag Rally

Do you have any better picks? Let me know in the comments.

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comments

Stu Scrace

July 15th, 2008 - 11:19am

Definitely should get Twitteriffic, so you can twitter on the go.

Daniel

July 15th, 2008 - 11:23am

Last.FM does not work in the Swiss store.

Jim

July 15th, 2008 - 11:38am

I’ve never been totally convinced about tilt controls for video games, and would be interested to have a go at cro-mag rally to see how the iphone handles it. Super monkey ball looks ideally suited to that mechanism, but for racing games I would imagine it lacks the precision to be really satisfying. Just looking at the clip you showed, you seemed to spend the majority of the time crashing into boulders!

cedgray

July 15th, 2008 - 12:05pm

Apple’s Remote controller is simple and brilliant (are we spotting a pattern here!). I allows you to browse and select which tracks you want to play from your main machine’s iTunes library. It’s quick and intuitive, and saves you having to return to your laptop to change tracks.

It’d be nice to have coverflow for the albums, though - seeing as all the cover artwork is there in the ‘albums’ browser, I can’t see why they left this feature out, considering how sweet it looks.

And it’s free.

cedgray

July 15th, 2008 - 12:09pm

Rather geekily, I also like CheckWord, which allows you to check any Scrabble word for validity against the official (and pre-loaded) SOWPODS or TWL dictionaries, without having have any reception or WiFi.

If you’re a Scrabulous addict and are going on holiday with a portable Scrabble set, you don’t want to have to carry a 3kg dictionary around with you to solve arguments like, e.g. “Do you think that someone who is out-foxed can be said to be an outfoxee?”

lawrence

July 15th, 2008 - 3:30pm

band is a good one plus the carling game is awsome !

Paul Taylor

July 16th, 2008 - 2:55am

Omnifocus is a bit pricey but but the fact that you can bring up the tasks can be done in your current area as determined by GPS really makes sense. It is also the application to open up to show your boss when you present him/her with the receipt for your glossy new iPhone as a business expense. The app I have shown the most people though is iMilk, it is great to show people 60 that this is really not an ordinary phone.

Leusch

July 18th, 2008 - 3:23am

For games, Enigmo is well worth the coin. Graphics are really well done - though accelerometer support would have been nice - its still an amazing game.

I think I like Pandora better than Last.FM - guess its just what you’re comfortable with.

LinkTree

July 22nd, 2008 - 4:01pm

The remote is my first pick - but if I could create dynamic playlist from it (something like the on the go playlists in the ipod) it would be a killer!