I ordered an iPhone 3g the other day and it just arrived in the mail. I was curious as to what apps seemed to work well for users out there. I havent gotten to monkey with it yet because I didnt have a Vista 64 compatible iTunes (downloading now). Guess the phone gets it's first strike for that, I effin hate iTunes (has to be activated through iTunes).

I'll continue to update the 1st post as kick (_|_) applications are found. Here is a list of my favorites so far.

Pandora (thanks for the recommendation on this!)
Call a Cab (a freebie that works very well in my area)
iHandy Level (this thing works awesome; want to find the angle on your CVs...)

Dont take it apart and monkey with it

Nerd.

i hate jasons iphone! not sure if you know this or not..but pics/videos that you get from people have to be sent to your email now...unless there is a way around that jasons hasnt figured it out yet


i love his text too

I live you
because i van




oh he says the Free Memory App is good and pretty much a must

Wife's Blackberry is the same way, gotta send pics and vids to her email addy THEN she can see them

I hate mine, you will to in time.

my iphone has met or excedded all my expectations, course i didnt have many expectations for the phone to begin with. what sold me on it was i stood at the att store and payed with one and when i was able to read and post on gd.com with it i bought one.

Shouldn’t a phone be for …. Oh I don’t know …Phone Calls!!

Best cell phone yet. I've tested a lot through work. I had to "modify" it a bit to work how I wanted it to but I'm really happy with it. I use it for work stuff mostly....oh and solitare.

I had the original, now I have the 3G. I didn't like the original to much as it always froze and didn't do what I wanted it to. I tried out a blackberry but didn't like it so I got the 3G. I like it so far. It doesn't freeze as much. I'm big into music and have the "shazam" app. You hold your iphone up th the speakers of you car or whatever and in about 20 seconds it will tell you what song your listening too. Also "uno" the card game is pretty cool. Word Search and of course the iHandy level. I've read a lot about people hacking them to change the appearance and what not. I haven't bothered with that but you can do a whole lot with it.


Andy

I'll have it cracked in the next week (going to Indiana next week so it might have to wait until I get back) or so. I bought it because it will replace my GPS, current phone, and my iPod. It will do just about anything else you can think of as well.

Dork! I wish you have let me know. Our 16GB iPhones should be returned to us this week (long story). We probably could have sold you one for much cheaper

My physic powers are pretty good but, how the eff would I have known you'd have a cheap 16gb iPhone How much do you want for it? I may still want another.

I've got the Blackberry Storm and wish I got the iphone. I have the ipod touch though and I really like the Labyrinth app, sweet.

I'm still waiting for the call from the lady in charge of the evidence locker. Now Kelly needs to decide weither it will be worth the extra $ to activate them.

Still interested

I know

Just waiting to get them back, the you and KT have first dibs

I like mine a lot, in fact I liked it so much I had to destroy it so I could buy another.


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Funny, the wife works for a company that provides cell phones to companies. Virtually NO companies ask for the iPhone. LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of companies order Blackberrys. Just sayin'.

Wow, I'm loving this thing so far. Very intuitive use. The screen has excellent resolution for the size and the color is very good. Very impressive so far!

I suspect that has a lot to do with the cost.

In many cases, yes. But many companies really don't care (seriously). Some companies have monthly cell bills above $50,000 and give their employees WHATEVER they ask for (no kidding).

Love mine. There are endless apps but I find my most used ones are the weather channel app, maps, and some cool games.

And you're also limited to GSM providers; in America, this would be AT&T, T Mobile, and Alltel (and a couple small ones). Sprint and Verizon use CDMA architecture (ie no iPhone). Apple did this because GSM is a world service where CDMA is a North American architecture.

I have the original and hate the thing. Can you send and receive pic's via text with the 3G. Is the internet fast? The original is so slow it makes me long for the days of dial up. Did they improve the ringer on the 3G as the original at full volume can’t be heard from a shirt pocket?

The iPhone 3g uses, well, 3g. This is the fastest mobile internet solution available in the US. I believe the pics are still limited to email. The ringer is acceptable (and improved from the previous from what I've read).

Be sure if you do hack it, not to change the apple icon to the pineapple if you PWN it. If you change it and it crashes because you did something wrong or the 3rd party app wasn't stable, its BRICKED in the truest sense, and you can't return it to apple because the pineapple will display and they know you violated the user agreement BS.

I use mine for a lot of medical stuff. There are a ton of free apps that are priceless to me in my job. My favorite is a pH interpreter, while I know all that stuff off my head its hard to memorize the anion gap info.

Not being able to get picture txts is frustrating, but the apps I use daily make up for it too.

Oh, and if you use AIM, Yahoo, etc, BeeJive is awesome. It is a more expensive app out there, but its the only one that keeps you logged on if you switch between apps.

Have I mentioned that I hate iTunes? Time to see what MediaMonkey thinks of the phone.

i see you learned to NOT have your comments section in your pics of gd.com finally

Sweet, MediaMonkey syncs the music no problem. One less asspain to go through

Hmm, anyone seen my iPod... Need to grab a playlist off of it and now I cant find the damn thing, grr.

Why do you hate Itunes? I'm about take the plunge and buy a 3G Iphone as well. I want a phone that has true internet and not the p.o.s stuff my phone has now. I'm using sprint, and the service is just ok. Is ATT much better?

No, the pics and videos are still limited to the e-mail. You think Apple would have figured that out when they made the 3G, but they didn't. The ringer thing has been fixed but I find myself accidently turning it down a lot. The internet is a lot faster. I'm able to surf gd.com quite faster and with less safari shut downs. I wish you could download firefox on it though as I use that on my apple laptops and love it.


Andy

Ive had my 3g since october and I love it. it does have a couple downfalls as stated but overall I am very happy with it. The other thing that really upset me was I had absolutely no signal when camping in the washes, NONE!!! My old tmobile phone seemed to work everywhere. The apps i use the most are USA today, Sportacular, Shazam, Pandora, and Movies. They are all free too!!!

Can't say enough about the awesomeness of pandora too!!!

Would love to get an iPhone, but I'm not willing to move to ATT to get it. Why oh why did Verizon have to say no when they were asked to sell the iPhone?

Dont know why you arent getting coverage in the washes; there is a tower with AT&T right behind the store. I get excellent coverage in the washes with my Samsung Sync and the iPhone seems to getting slightly better signal than the Sync. Guess I'll find out soon enough.

ya I thought I'd have good signal there but I was wrong... maybe it was just wash 4 that is a dead zone

I love mine! The flash light apps can be handy for us flashlight nerds

I put an otterbox defender case on it and it has already saved my phone twice from drops.

BTW: for any ladies (and some guys), I have a brand new otterbox defender case in pink I'd sell for $25
Pic and info here: http://www.lapolicegear.com/otter-box-ipho...ngth-case1.html

The signal is hit or miss in the washes for some reason. Over Halloween '08, I got perfect signal from Wash 10 but I couldn't manage 1 bar when I stayed in the Compound over Thanksgiving. Gecko seems to be hit or miss too. Our last trip out (MLK Weekend) I had to drive up to the nearest tall dune to get my voicemails.


Andy

I went with the Ivyskin Quattro T4 glass case; I went with red, I'm hoping it's more of a dark red (hard to tell on internet pics). They're fairly spendy but all the reviews look very promising.

You got lucky you got one bar , cell service was not working over thanksgiving.
problem with the tower.
It really messed up all the vendors that depend on it for credit card transactions.

That is what I had figured. The one time I decide to stay in the Compound and you can't get cell service. Computer worked fine though.


Andy

Well I think this topic started as an app suggestion so here is what I have and 99% of them are free because yes I am that cheap.

Bloomberg mobile
Pandora radio-beats the hell out of sirius and its free
Shazam-great for ID'ing music
iWant-great for finding bars,resturants and shopping in new areas
bigoven-great for recipes
Rowmote-if you have mac computers this allows your iphone to control everything from iTunes to front row, but it cost .99

Those are my favorites. Other than that I have had 0 problems with the phone and calling as well as reception. The pic text thing sucks but I know the upper end blackberrys have gone to the same system

Awesome AZ! I'm gonna download 'em right now. Are there stations for Pandora? I messed with it for a few minutes and it looks like you have to setup playlists; still awesome since it's a freebie but I was kind of hoping for a no kidding "station."

I found another awesome one last night; it is a freebie called Call a Cab. It works awesome for my area, found 6 cab companies in my area

on Pandora all you do is touch at the bottom where it says new station and then enter an artist or a song and it will play songs continuously for you that are like the artist or song you selected. awesome app imo

about the signal in the washes... that makes sense because it was over thanksgiving that i was camped there.

Ahh, I'm starting to get the hang of it now This friggin phone, er, device, is awesome

Oh, Mr. Dixon, there is a flashlight app for it

Shazam is very nice. I tried midomi as well but I prefer shazam.