iPhone2.0 Showdown

I finally got the iPhone2.0 firmware installed last night, I thought I might share what apps I have tried out and found useful for the last 24 hours. You can find them all in App Store (either use your iPhone or iTunes).

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D

Impressive OpenGL graphics (I know it doesn’t look like much on the screenshot, but please try it), and great gameplay. You control the car by tilting your iPhone from side to side, feels a bit like Wii for iPhone. iWii! This is so far the only app I have purchased, it cost me 59 danish kroner.

WeatherBug

Advanced weatherreport, showing wind directions and more. The feed from Copenhagen Airport is pretty good.

Eventful

If just Eventful has more danish events, this would rock. It’s a basically a concert calendar that looks at your current location (using CoreLocation) and shows events near you coming up.

Tap Tap Revenge

The classic from iPhone1.0, could easily be explained as “GuitarHero for your iPhone”. I can still spend a lot of time on this game, and the stability and interface has been dramatically improved in the iPhone2.0 version.

Talking German Phrasebook

A free travel parleur financed by ads (atleast it seems), got most comon travel-ly phrases that plays when you click. Several other languages exist, for example Spanish or French. Could come in handy one day.

Twitterific

An amazing Twitter client for the iPhone. You can easily get a quick overview of latest tweets, reply on a specific one or post a new one. Interface is fantastic - one of the best I’ve seen on the new platform.

Remote

Control iTunes on your computer from your iPhone. God, have I been waiting for this, and it works perfect. It controls iTunes using WiFi (which means your iPhone and computer should be connected to the same WiFi spot), and then acts completely as the iPod application with covers and all.

Nearpics

Shows pictures from nearby (it locates you with CoreLocation) as a slideshow. I figure this would be great when you’re in your hotelroom in another city and just wants to quickly see what this place is like. Photos from Panoramio, like Google Maps.

Twittervision

Shows latest global tweets on a worldmap, I had this running while eating dinner today, great fun.

Midomi

Hum or sing a song that you’ve forgotten the name of, and Midomi will find out what it is. Now also when you’re not infront of your computer. Here I hummed the pink panther theme and it found out.

Shazam

Sort of like Midomi, just that Shazam looks at the fingerprint of the song, which means you can’t sing or hum it, but you turn on the app and it listens to the music playing and finds out what it is. I have now tried this in two bars (Jolene and Bang&Jensen) and both places it found out exactly what was playing - it’s magnificent!

iPint

An ad-app from Carlings, where you need to balance your iPhone to move a beer from one end of the bar to the other. When it reaches the goal, you get a virtual beer that you can drink by “drinking” from your iPhone. Good concept, Carlings.

Bloomberg

Bloomberg’s app with financial information, seems to be pretty solid. When you tilt your iPhone, it displays a big graph of the stock you’re looking at. Ofcourse you can zoom by pinching the display.

Evernote

I’ve become a great fan of Evernote, the webapp where you can upload photos of documents or receipts and it OCRs the content so it’s searchable. Great for receipts especially. You can both upload notes and search current notes with the iPhone app.

Facebook

Facebook has long been the largest time consumer on my iPhone with their splendid webedition, and now their app has launched. It seems pretty solid (the webedition + 10). The biggest change is that you now can use Facebook Chat mobile, just like SMS.