I have done it now. I went and picked up a new iPhone 3G 8GB monster. Now for a little backstory: I had my grubby hands on the original a year ago, but it didn’t want to register since my number is part of the business account. Not to be deterred, I picked up a Motorola RAZR v3xx which sports 3G as well. The two best things I love about that phone was I could use any mp3 file for ringtones and the ability to teather it to my macbook pro. Two things that I cannot do with this new phone.
What made me decide to make the jump this time? The App Store. Endless potential extendability. The reason I say potential is that I do not know what it takes for an app to be approved for distribution at the store. Thus, some great app may not make it to those pages due to rules Apple and AT&T have made due to hardware or network constraints, respectively.
Here are some of my favorite free apps so far:
- Twitterific - ability to post photo links in twitter entries from the iPhone
- Shozu - ability to post photos taken by the phone to multiple sites (flickr, facebook, picasa, twitter, wordpress, etc)
- AP Mobile News / NYTimes - I guess this is what it feels like for Kindle users to have news RSS feeds at their fingertips
- BoxOffice - who wants to go see a movie? Here are the times for this theater
- Pandora - amazing customized streaming radio stations that is powered by the Music Genome Project (hello parties and streaming radio to make great use of that AUX port in your savvy ride) How is this even legal?
- Save Benjis - here’s a great tool for the intelligent shopper in us all
