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What is your favorite 3rd party app...that you can't wait to get.
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I'm looking forward to NetNewsWire and maybe Adium? I don't even know if they said they were making iPhone apps but I can hope.
I want an altimeter and a speedometer app!
And I can't wait for Band.
Do you think the speedometer would be accurate considering the hype that the gps isn't all that fantastic?
Do you think the speedometer would be accurate considering the hype that the gps isn't all that fantastic?
Please, it will be fine.
Have faith.
Ooh... forgot about Adium... that would be a very nice app to have on the iPhone...
http://adiumx.com/blog/2008/03/adium-and-the-iphone/
I can be optimistic...I can be optimistic.
Here's the way I look at it:
I came from having a Nokia 6230:
It didn't have many features, so sure, people said the original iPhone wasn't that great and didn't have that fast of internet. But it was a MASSIVE step up from my 6230, and it did many things WAY better than any other phone on the market.
The iPhone 3G may or may not have downfalls but it will do everything the same or better than my current phone, which is an EDGE iPhone, so I'm not really worried about it.
My current phone doesn't have 3G, and it doesn't have GPS at all. So no matter what, it will be a step in the right direction. I'm not going to downgrade and lose all the nice features such as iTunes syncing, MobileMe, AppStore, accelerometer, multitouch, Mac support, Mac OS X, Cocoa Touch, etc, and go to something like a Blackberry just because it has a bigger GPS antenna and has a little bit better GPS accuracy.
I'll stick with the iPhone 3G, and call it good. It's an upgrade, and it does what I want at a reasonable price.
The videos are only like :15 second highlights, don't sweat it man. Rock on with your 2G, I know I will.
You read my mind. it's going to make iPhone owners fantasy gods.
I use sportstap.mobi/mlb now... it's really good and loads well, even over edge.
The NYT review said there's a tip calculator app. That's got to be the most useless app I've ever heard of. People can't use the calculator?
Ooooo...
I found this on http://www.informationweek.com
Loopt
Loopt is a mobile service that allows users to track friends on a map and communicate with them. It's now available for BlackBerry users onAlltel (NYSE: AT), Sprint (NYSE: S), T-Mobile, and AT&T (NYSE: T), and it's coming to the iPhone, according to a report on InformationWeek last month.
Loopt will allow iPhone users to track friends on a map and communicate with them.
You download the free program, set up a network of friends, and tag their locations and your own using the handsets' GPS. Loopt will alert you when a friend is nearby, you can post and share geo-tagged photos, read and maintain a mobile blog, and comment on others' uploads. Users can turn the services on and off on a friend-by-friend basis or all at once.
Loopt declined to comment for this article, so we don't know when the app will be available.
It's on the 4th page of this link...
I found this on http://www.informationweek.com
Loopt
Loopt is a mobile service that allows users to track friends on a map and communicate with them. It's now available for BlackBerry users onAlltel (NYSE: AT), Sprint (NYSE: S), T-Mobile, and AT&T (NYSE: T), and it's coming to the iPhone, according to a report on InformationWeek last month.
Loopt will allow iPhone users to track friends on a map and communicate with them.
You download the free program, set up a network of friends, and tag their locations and your own using the handsets' GPS. Loopt will alert you when a friend is nearby, you can post and share geo-tagged photos, read and maintain a mobile blog, and comment on others' uploads. Users can turn the services on and off on a friend-by-friend basis or all at once.
Loopt declined to comment for this article, so we don't know when the app will be available.
It's on the 4th page of this link...
WebIS - PocketInformant 08
right now it's for WM but they're doing an iPhone version. It's an amazing contact, datebook, PIM manager that blows the doors off of stock WM, so it should be an even bigger improvement over the iPhone iCal&datebook.
Illium - eWallet
version for iPhone coming out.
allows encrypted syncing between phone/pda and both desktop and an online source of your choosing for all kinds of information like credit card numbers, and other personal information.
right now it's for WM but they're doing an iPhone version. It's an amazing contact, datebook, PIM manager that blows the doors off of stock WM, so it should be an even bigger improvement over the iPhone iCal&datebook.
Illium - eWallet
version for iPhone coming out.
allows encrypted syncing between phone/pda and both desktop and an online source of your choosing for all kinds of information like credit card numbers, and other personal information.
an app could do it for free
and price isnt my concern, i have unlimited sms
unfortunatley, my house is at the bottom of a hill in a low service area, so I often dont have the signal to send a text message
usually during important conversations
so being able to just push the text over wifi would make my life so much easier
Two applications that I would love to see - NetFlix Viewer and TripAdvisor (full)
Hi...
I am an iPod touch owner. Like many of you, I have updated to iTunes 7.7 and am eagerly awaiting the arrival of 2.0. I currently have a number of apps downloaded to iTunes. After browsing the app store for a fair amount of time, I can think of at least two applications that I would love to see.
1. NetFlix Viewer: Basically, I would love to see NetFlix create an iPhone/touch-compatible video viewer to stream their Instant movies and TV shows. I watch a fair number of these on my PC, and think this would be a great thing to extend to this Apple platform. I know that NetFlix uses a Windows Media format for the PC version, so I am unsure if the shows would all have to be re-encoded for Quicktime. Anyway - it would be great.
2. TripAdvisor: Yes, I know that TripAdvisor has a restaurant-focused app here already. That is great. I will probably download it. But, I would like the full content of TripAdvisor in one single and elegant app. I suppose it will come, but wanted to get my vote out early.
Other than that, the only other item might be a native IMDB client - again - with full content.
Thanks.
Sam
Hi...
I am an iPod touch owner. Like many of you, I have updated to iTunes 7.7 and am eagerly awaiting the arrival of 2.0. I currently have a number of apps downloaded to iTunes. After browsing the app store for a fair amount of time, I can think of at least two applications that I would love to see.
1. NetFlix Viewer: Basically, I would love to see NetFlix create an iPhone/touch-compatible video viewer to stream their Instant movies and TV shows. I watch a fair number of these on my PC, and think this would be a great thing to extend to this Apple platform. I know that NetFlix uses a Windows Media format for the PC version, so I am unsure if the shows would all have to be re-encoded for Quicktime. Anyway - it would be great.
2. TripAdvisor: Yes, I know that TripAdvisor has a restaurant-focused app here already. That is great. I will probably download it. But, I would like the full content of TripAdvisor in one single and elegant app. I suppose it will come, but wanted to get my vote out early.
Other than that, the only other item might be a native IMDB client - again - with full content.
Thanks.
Sam
Text Messages over Data
The AIM application allows you to send text messages over the data connection to mobile phones in the US.
Just enter +1 and the full 10 digit phone number as your buddy's address in either the buddy list or a new IM window (e.g. +14085551212). That phone number will be sent an SMS message, but on your side it will travel through the AIM data network - you can even use it from an iPod Touch on WiFi. Your buddy will be able to respond, and you'll get the response back in AIM.
* Note: because your buddy is receiving SMS text messages, *they* may be charged, but from your side, it will work just like sending an IM to a screen name.
Look at http://daol.aol.com/software/mac/iphone/aim/faq for more info on this feature.
Thanks,
-The AIM for iPhone Team
The AIM application allows you to send text messages over the data connection to mobile phones in the US.
Just enter +1 and the full 10 digit phone number as your buddy's address in either the buddy list or a new IM window (e.g. +14085551212). That phone number will be sent an SMS message, but on your side it will travel through the AIM data network - you can even use it from an iPod Touch on WiFi. Your buddy will be able to respond, and you'll get the response back in AIM.
* Note: because your buddy is receiving SMS text messages, *they* may be charged, but from your side, it will work just like sending an IM to a screen name.
Look at http://daol.aol.com/software/mac/iphone/aim/faq for more info on this feature.
Thanks,
-The AIM for iPhone Team
Why use a calculator at all - it's not like figuring 15% or 20% of anything is rocket science.
Here's a "tip":
15% = 10% + 5% (which is 1/2 of 10, of course)...
So any amount is pretty easy to figure.
Just do it fast in your head...say dinner costs $72.46, 15% is $7.25 + a little over 3.50 = about $11.
Or be a good guy and just double the 10% and leave ~$14 on the table.
+1 for a Netflix viewer
Glad to see SplashShopper (use it all the time on my Treo) and eReader (also use it a lot when traveling).
A good Tide prediction application would be useful for me. There is a nice free one for Palm called TideTool (based on xTide).
Glad to see SplashShopper (use it all the time on my Treo) and eReader (also use it a lot when traveling).
A good Tide prediction application would be useful for me. There is a nice free one for Palm called TideTool (based on xTide).
