Your Voice: iPhone Apps

Posted November 8, 2008 // Tagged as Apple, Thoughts, iPhone // 5 Comments ↓

Since the end of the June when apple released the iPhone & iPod Touch 2.0 firmware, the market for Apps has gone insane and the amount of apps that are now available for download is ridiculous. Although there are many great free apps, I haven’t really wanted to download them.

If i have more than one page of apps on my first generation iPhone, it becomes incredibly sluggish, and the user experience isn’t a good one. Therefore I’m not a fan of them – i have only 5 or 6 apps.

These are:

  • Aim (AOL Instant Messenger)
  • Last.Fm
  • Twitterfon
  • Brightkite
  • Fring

Notice how they are all social network sites and communication tools? The iPhone to me is a phone and it will be nothing more. (Apart from a music player too).

I want to know: What do you use on your iPhone? What apps do you use on a regular basis, and what are your opinions!

5 Responses

  1. Your Voice: iPhone Apps » iPhone Tricks

    November 8th, 2008 at 3:33 am

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  2. Sam

    November 8th, 2008 at 7:28 am

    I’ve had the iPhone 3G for about 2 months and have 3 screens of apps. My most regularly used apps are Twitterrific, NetNewsWire, Exposure and I’m quite partial to a game I downloaded recently, Flick Bowling. I have no music at all on my iPhone with no intentions of adding any – my earbuds are still sealed in the box! Like you I tend to use my phone as a phone (and SMS) more than anything else. I haven’t found the apps sluggish on my iPhonem infact I haven’t had a single app crash in 2 months whereas I was experiencing it quite often on the iPod touch 1st gen before that.

  3. James Bayliss

    November 8th, 2008 at 8:19 am

    Thanks for the comment Sam! I played Flick Bowling and must say that it is quite impressive – compared to some of the other apps.

    I only have about 100 tracks on their, and that seems to sort out my issue, strange eh?

  4. William Hook

    November 8th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    I have installed:

    Remote, Twitterrific, Twinkle, Facebook, NetNewsWire, 1Password, Pennies, TV Plus, TV Forecast, Movies, fring, AroundMe, TubeStatus, Google Earth, ShoZu, Shazam, Last.fm, UniCon, Scavenge, Tuner Internet Radio, Koi Pond, Spore Origins, Enigmo, Moonlight Mahjong, Topple, Tris, JellyCar, Super Monkey Ball, Matches Free, reMovem Free, iChalky, Cube Runner, iPint, and finally, Free Naughts and Crosses.

    If I had to cut that list down to the bare minimum, it would be: Remote, Twitterrific, Facebook, NetNewsWire, 1Password, TV Plus, TV Forecast, Movies, Shazam, Enigmo, Moonlight Mahjong, Tris, and Matches Free.

    I do find my iPhone a bit sluggish, but I just cut that list down from about 20 more apps in the past week, and it does help a lot.

  5. James Bayliss

    November 11th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    Quite a few eh? i’m happy with the 5 or 6 six that i have. :)

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