IN SHORT: Play as a spider, exploring an entire house and unlocking mysteries through an innovative gaming platform and a host of mini games. Easy to get the hang of but challenging to master, and full of some of the most impressive uses of the iPhone’s gaming capacity we’ve come across to date, this is [...]
IN SHORT: One mammoth database of where to find the nearest Wi-Fi access available in whatever location you happen to be in, incorporating more than 130 countries around the world. Perfect for when you arrive in a strange town, as well as for finding the nearest free access in a more familiar one.
THE LOWDOWN: This [...]
IN SHORT: An application for business people, aimed squarely at keeping track of just how many hours you spend on each project. Ideal for billing accurately, keeping track of just how your work is distributed, or even showing your boss just how hard you’re working.
THE LOWDOWN: A deliberately simple application, ClockIn isn’t laden with features, [...]
Vodafone only launched their application store, ‘Vodafone 360’, back in November, but amazingly they’ve already topped 7000 different applications. Vodafone put a special effort in to be accessible to developers, even offering incentives for producers of particularly impressive applications, such as a £100,000 prize to the winner of an up and coming app store contest. [...]
Popular Internet phone service Skype has announced a service that could revolutionize the iPhone for heavy phone users, reducing the cost of many calls that fall outside of the standard contract dramatically. Up until now, Skype for the iPhone has only been available as a Wi-Fi service, and so could only be used inside the [...]
Is it the ultimate sign of being socially essential? Who knows, but a feature spot on a Simpsons couch gag is certainly a sign that your products hit the mainstream in a big, big way. To become worthy of the fingers of a certain podgy yellow family has taken the iPhone more than two years, [...]
IN SHORT: An application for the fitness freaks among us. RunKeeper does exactly what it sounds like it should, turning your iPhone into the equivalent of a high-priced GPS system by using the inbuilt GPS to track your run, and feed you plenty of data on just how you’re doing.
THE LOWDOWN: The basic function of [...]
With Apple dominating the modern market for mobile phone applications, it might come as a surprise that the latest in cutting edge app development seems to have come from the Nokia stable. Nokia’s mobile phone research center has a hefty focus on changing the way mobile phones might be used in the future, and their [...]
IN SHORT: Your iPhone knows where you are. You want to find something – a pub, a petrol station, a shop… anything that you might normally be looking for. Yelp puts the two together, connecting you to the nearest one of whatever you’re looking for (and other options, too), and providing you with user added [...]
After we reported yesterday that Tetris has surpassed an incredible 100 million downloads on all mobile platforms, there was only ever going to be one choice for this week’s ‘app of the week’. Hold onto your hats and get ready for the pace change ladies and gentlemen, its Tetris…
IN SHORT: There are these blocks. They [...]