“So, you’ve got a gleaming new iPhone 3G. After you make a few calls to tell your friends, snap a few pictures, and try out the Web browser, it’s time to load that thing up with software. After all, this device lets you go way beyond the usual calling, texting, and surfing. Apple’s communicator extraordinaire knows how it’s moving in space, can tell where it is on the planet, and lets you control it with multi-finger gestures. Few desktop computers give programmers as many possibilities, and developers have responded with hundreds of applications. The 21 apps we’ve collected here will transform your new device into far more than a phone,” Michael Muchmore wrties for PC Magazine.
PC Magazine’s list in alphabetical order:
01. Air Sharing – $6.99
02. BeejiveIM – $15.99
03. Caddy.me Lite – $9.99
04. CameraBag – $2.99
05. eReader – Free
06. Facebook – Free
07. Ms. Pac-Man – $5.99
08. Ocarina – $0.99
09. OneTap Movies – Free
10. Pandora – Free
11. Photogene – $2.99
12. Real Soccer 2009 – $7.99
13. Seadragon Mobile – Free
14. Simplify Media – Free
15. Speakeasy Voice Recorder – $1.99
16. Sportacular – Free
17. Stanza – Free
18. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – $7.99
19. TextGuru – $4.99
20. Yahoo oneConnect – Free
21. Zagat to Go ’09 (for iPhone) – $9.99
The full article, which contains reviews for each app on the list, is here.
“developers have responded with hundreds of applications.”
Hundreds? Try over 10,000.
How in the world did Shazam not make the list?!?!?
Air Sharing is soo over rated.
@Cubert
Not only Shazam but Google Mobile, Wunder radio or The Weather Channel.
Really a dumb list but what do expect from PC Magazine.
No iFart? I’d expect that from PC Rag.
twodales,
Shazam is the app that I show people on the iPhone (I don’t have one – I show them on other people’s) that makes them freak out and realize what a game-changer the iPhone really is.
Apple’s commercial showing Shazam in action has brought many cries of “Holy $#!t!” from my friends when they see it on TV for the first time.
No Fieldrunners? Are you freaking kidding. I have been playing the game for weeks. It is amazing.
One word: TouchGrind
MibileFiles is the best file manager because it connects to your idisk.
MB,
me too. I’m addicted.
Of course I play it on the iPod touch. A better gaming device than the iPhone.
It has a faster processor and everything runs more smoothly.
Of course the article doesn’t even mention the iPod touch, which is now probably outselling the iPhone.
…. not to mention the much longer battery life.
MobileFiles? You have GOT to be kidding. What a buggy pile of crap. MobileFiles Pro is even worse! Check it out. Seriously, buy it and try to enter an equation in the spreadsheet. It will frustrate you to tears. Bloody tears.
Air Sharing FTW!
Simplify Media USED to be free but now it’s $3.99.
It’s a great app, though.
I have bought many apps, but there is only one that I continue to use on a daily basis–Aurora Feint: The Arena.
Everyone download it now!!!
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PC Magazine … PC Magazine … Hmmm, kind of sort of rings a faint bell, but didn’t die it about 5 years ago?
Re:The confused1
SPOT THE DEVELOPER TRYING TO TROLL SALES OF HIS SOFTWARE…
shazam is probably not on this list because verizon had a similar app well before the iphone.
typical stupid list from typical stupid PC mag
@Petey–
Heh… You’re kidding, right? I’ve been posting here for years… How long as AF been available, or the App Store for that matter? Yeah, you’re right. My posting on this site all these years has been a conspiracy to sell software, which I knew that I would, one day, develop software for, on a platform that didn’t yet exist!
Sorry, but no. I’m not a developer; I sell cars. Sorry to bash your dreams of catching me red-handed.
It’s true that I am a moderator on their forums, but I don’t get paid in any way from them, and I paid for my version of the game, even though I could have pirated it for free… because I believe in supporting developers who write good software, which also happens to be the reason I plug them.