More iPhone apps available
By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 at 6:19 am PST In Apple, Applications, Services, iPhone
Savvy iPhone enthusiasts have been busy making new and optimizing existing Web apps for the Apple device’s touchscreen. In that sense today we’re presenting you with 5 new iPhone-ready Web 2.0 apps. Let’s roll…
- iTweetr
is, as you can guess, an iPhone interface for Twitter - iPhone Feed Reader allows you to read RSS feeds. Hopefully, Apple will provide us with some real RSS reader app, so we don’t have to rely on web apps for this. Or, even better - Jobs will further extend its partnership with Google to deliver the iPhone-optimized Google Reader.
- iActu enables you to read the news gathered from six American Newspapers, including The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times and Chicago Sun-Times. It seems like a quite simple app, but it looks uber-cool, fitting perfectly with the overall iPhone look.
- MyMetar is a niche iPhone app that provides personalized aviation weather to pilots, which require access to special weather observations and images such as turbulence and significant weather prognostics.
- Listingly allows users to create different kinds of private and shared lists. Some examples include shopping, to do and wish lists.
There you have it. At the end, Web 2.0 app idea may actually turn out as a great one. After all, I can’t recall any other phone that had so many applications available even before a handset has been tried out by a developer.
[Via: iPhoneApplicationList]
June 19th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Well I can remember lots of phones that have tons of apps even before their presentantion!! How abou that?? Just think “S60″!
And you really think 5 or 6 apps are lots of them?? Specially when they’re simply things gathered from the web and adapted for the iPhone??
Oh please.. I mean, iPlease..
June 19th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Hey, I’m an S60 device user (N93).
But, you must agree that what we have here is unique - fans are organizing a developer bootcamp for themselves, without a penny from Apple.
I’ve had N80 as soon as it was available. And there were no that many S60 3rd edition apps then.
June 23rd, 2007 at 11:03 am
I just released another niche iPhone app for pilots. It is a collection of airport data: http://foreflight.com/iPhone/screen.html
I do think that this “Web SDK” will work just fine for the iPhone, assuming the phone is on a good network when you want the app. However, I do hope Apple will release some templates or shells to help devs create apps that look appropriate to the phone’s aesthetics.