iPhone 3G apps review

17Dec/080

It has been a while since my first post about the iPhone. I still haven't started developing my own application yet, but I have tried out some other useful or completely pointless but fun applications.

I recently discovered the Remember The Milk service where you can manage your todo lists. It's yet another service that tries to take over the numerous Todo applications out there. But the difference is that it integrates nicely with your Google Calender and they also have mobile clients. The iPhone RTM application has become one of my favorite apps. Check it out here.
If you have an IM account and you want to chat with your contacts there is not a lot of choice in decent IM applications. Recently Nimbuzz released an iPhone version. You will need an account, but then you can add multiple accounts (MSN, Google Talk, Facebook, ...) to chat with your friends.
Shazam is one of those great free applications. If you hear a song on the radio, just launch the application and hold it a couple of seconds next to the speaker and you will get the artist and name of the song. Yes, it actually works!
Microsoft released their first application for the iPhone. It is called Seadragon Mobile and it is a product of Live Labs. What is allows you to do is to browse a large number of high resolution images. It's not a very useful app, but it's interesting that Microsoft is not completely ignoring the iPhone platform. Maybe a Live Messenger for the iPhone in the future?
And finally I just had to buy Tetris. It brings back memories and it also works great with the multi-touch.

I hope to have more time next year to play with the SDK, because apparently you can earn a lot of money with building iPhone applications. Read this article that describes the success story of the developers from Smule who created the very popular Ocarina application. The app already had 400,000 downloads the first month and with a 0,99$ price tag you can do the math.

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