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Favourite iPhone Apps: Part 1

August 9th, 2008. Published under General. 1 Comment.

I know my list of favourite iPhone apps is bound to change so I will to part 2 at another time when I have a new list!

But at the moment I try to keep one set of apps on the second page on the home screen. Even though I keep a low number of apps on my phone, they change all the time. Below are the top 3 of the apps I have used and kept so far. Other than these 3 the apps stay for a few days and get deleted, generally its when the novelty value runs out.

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Twinkle

Twinkle is made by Tapulous, who also make Tap Tap Revenge. It’s a Twitter application that originated in the installer.app on the old jailbroken iPhone. I used it briefly because I actually used Hahlo, a Twitter web app. The simple reason was that it worked faster and looked better. But being a web app it was prone to problems.

I have had this app since I first upgraded my old iPhone to the 2.0 firmware. It has interesting noises when you get replies, general tweets and direct messages. There is also a tab that has tweets near you, the distance can be set to your preference. I have found that the 50km is good for me.

A downside is that there is no way to see the original message when a person you follow replies. In other clients you can see the original message, but Twinkle doesn’t have that.

App Store Link

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Texas Hold ‘em

This app was created by Apple, and it shows. The quality of it is quite incredible. There is some clipping and other tiny flaws but the rest of the app is amazing. It does costs money, bet when have Apple ever done anything for free? This is the only app I have paid for because I knew I would get quality.

The game play is clever, there are 2 views, the first person view has video clips of actual people moving chips around, this is all integrated into various settings, be it garage or a boat etc. It really brings something extra to the app, almost along the line of PKR. There is also quite high AI too which makes for fun game play. You can’t win real money but if you have 2 phones connected to the same wireless access point you can play against each other which i suspect would be entertaining, but I haven’t played the multiplayer mode yet.

App Store Link

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PhoneSaber

Now if you read my previous post (which i think you should do) you will notice that PhoneSaber (created by TheMacBox) is no longer in the app store. See my post to see what actually happened.

But what I can do is tell you why I will be keeping it on my phone. The main reason I have kept it is the exact reason I thought I would get rid of it after a few days. That reason is novelty value. Ok so it is a lightsaber on your phone that changes sounds depending on what the accelerometer is doing, big deal! Well when I first got it I suspected that that is all it would be, a few hours of fun (not all at once!) and then get rid of it.

I have had the app on my phone for 3 weeks and that that thought has not crossed my mind, until I wrote this post, but I do not see my self deleting it any time soon! If you really want an app like it there is the new iSaber, but the chances are that will be taken down too! So get iSaber here while you can.

No App Store Link (see why)

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That concludes my review of my favourite apps on the iPhone. I will no doubt change my thoughts on these and have some different apps to review soon. Subscribe to my RSS feed to be kept up to date.