iPhone apps S/D

Xp to dyao-perfect, thanks!

OS 4 changes TuneIn radio and Spotify from nice-but-pita into awesome

okay, i've got an iphone 4 in the mail.

it's gonna be here in a few days.

i have about fifteen bucks to spend on apps, but i'd rather get free ones.

what should I get? already i have:

1) katamari
2) lose it
3) skype
4) google talk
5) facebook

drop7

u have a problem

if you use google reader byline is essench

zing obv

hipstamatic is pretty fun but expensive

'spend' is a pretty good but v simple budget app

byline eh

no just byline

no canadian version or

sohry

reeder>>>byline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk2cJpSXLg&feature=player_embedded

Snappier...

installed iOS 4.0 last week and now as of last night all my apps are crashing on load, feel like i'm one day closer to throwing this thing in a lake and buying a jitterbug

try resynching the phone with itunes, i had the same problem.

― Clay, Tuesday, June 22, 2010 3:14 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

oh ok i thought i was gonna get to enjoy my life for a while this afternoon but nope looks like i have an appointment with my itunes, instead

jitterbug dreams

my 3G has been running OK with iOS 4.0, but I notice a lot of apps are really slow when they first launch - sometimes totally unresponsive (Safari does this, actually). it's fairly annoying. I am thinking pretty seriously about a droid x at this point.

not because of the OS not working on my 3G, but just apple's b.s. in general.

My latest issue is that if I sync my phone at all, all the podcasts lose their timing information, so that if I stop them, I have to start at the beginning again. Re-downloading them from the phone fixes this. 4.0.1 MIGHT have fixed this bug too.

Byline is messing up hardcore for me these days. If I have, say, 60 posts to pull in and cache, it will shut down the app at least four times guaranteed (requiring me to restart) before successfully caching everything. Also you can't really read the posts until it finishes caching or it takes really long time to open the next one and/or gets confused and shuts down.

Is there an app to help two or more people to find each other via real time coordinates? This would be great, rather than talking and giving poor directions and bumping into each other.

Google Latitude?

foursquare/gowalla?

i tried to write something like this to let friends find one another in big clubs/gigs, but the GPS is too crap indoors to make it work

Finger Physics is the first iPhone game I am actually addicted to.

Also Moodagent seems pretty good. it doesn't exactly do what it promises, but is a nice alternative to Genius and shuffle. Now make an app that boosts my itunes volume PLEASE

i still have no idea how multitasking works on the iphone. basically it just lets every open app sit in that multitasking area. i still open twitter and it hasn't been updated for days. thinking about HTC phone a lot.

btw u guys have u played eliss? it's dope

xpost, having upgraded from the 3G, the 4G is so much faster that I've forgotten about multitasking.

i was wondering about this too the other day. it seems like it's only really multitasking for things that can operate without being in the forefront, like apps that playing music. otherwise, it's just a list of things i've used recently, email, phone, games, etc. kinda useless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bcryQUuDwM

The only things that can multitask are apps that play music, apps that do location stuff, voip apps and apps that need extra time to complete something (like an upload). Everything else is just fast-switching: the app is frozen when it goes into the background and then melted when its resumed.

The switch bar doesn't show what apps are running, it shows all the apps you've recently used, in the order you've used them.

lol at those swearing bears. GBs Wifis

xpost, having upgraded from the 3G, the 4G is so much faster that I've forgotten about multitasking.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, August 6, 2010 2:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

4G doesnt exist yet. I busted an AT&T guy on the phone when he referred to the lastest as 'iphone 4G'. He admitted iphone 4 only works on 3G. also dodgy: sprint are advertising a 4G network when they obvs dont have one. so weird.

Generally people just mean "4th generation phone" when they say 4G in regards to the iPhone. Sprint has 4G but it's not complete coverage yet.

yeah I see what he meant but it irks me when I see how ATT have managed to get everyone calling it iphone 4G when no 4G networks have been launched. Maybe everyone is calling it 4G because the last two versions referenced the network in the name. Either way it seems dodgy and misleading at best. I coordinated the release testing for 4G and 3GPP LTE at that company with the lame blue map. (fyi: It was super stressful and sucked incredibly. DO not recommend) Anyway, there are sites where the 4G code is in place but it wont be turned on until it is officially launched (late 2010 or 2011). I cant imagine ATT being too far behind. Im 90% sure 4G is not backwards compatible with 3G or 3G with first phase LTE. I don't think 3G will get turned off when 4G gets turned on, still a 3GPP LTE phone cant drop back to 3G if it cant pick up an LTE signal so by that logic ditto for 4G, I guess? TBH im mostly pissed because i really want that phone but cant bring myself the shell out the bucks when i know the next one is going to be 80 times faster than the current 3G iphone 4.

re Sprint: i don't know how Sprint are getting away with saying they have a 4G network and 4G handsets. Their '4G' is just WiMax and doesn't come close to meeting the 4G speed and frequency standards. Its still a lot faster than 3G though - 7MB/Sec over max 20 Mhz channel download average vs 3G download average of 0.5MB/sec. 4G should have a download rate of 12 MB/sec for local wireless access and 128 MB per second for high mobility.
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I think I said all this upthread but I'm bookmarked and too lazy to check

anyway, now im triple pissed because there seems to be a crazy amount of apps that only work on iphone 4 now. so lame.

also i hope hope hope the next iphone will be a mobile hotspot.

so now we're going to have:

GPRS
Edge
3G
4G

all working at the same time?? Seems kind of wasteful and dumm

i don't know. You would think they would ditch the first two. Do they even make apps for the original iphone anymore?

oh i guess you still need to make calls

also i hope hope hope the next iphone will be a mobile hotspot.

― sunny successor, Monday, August 9, 2010 2:39 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

jailbreakin makes this a snap

tw;cd

Finally got an iPhone 4 ten days ago and not a single sign of trouble, annoyances, or really much of anything negative. It works, it runs my code, whooo!

i'm in talks with someone who has just started making apps about making one for my club but don't have any idea about prices. i only want something v basic (photos, basic info, map, link to tickets), how much shall i suggest? i'd prefer not to spend more than £100 really but is this too low for the amount of work needed to create one? is there a fee to get it up on the iphone app store too?

isnt there a little tutorial on the apple site that shows you how to make apps? if its basic you could probably do it yourself.

Going rate is £250/day. v basic (photos, basic info, map, link to tickets)
This isn't nec. basic: photos can be a 'mare to manage, especially if you're pulling them off the net. Maps aren't too hard. But how would this be shown? And would it all just be fixed in place when you launched the app, or would it load the details off the net?

Seems like an HTML5-based app/mobile-optimized website would make more sense for your club.

thanks guys, i'll look into this in more detail, sounds like i might be better going for a mobile-optimized website rather than a specific app

do we have an ipad app thread - if not can someone here recommend a reader app? I'm currently toggling btw Byline and Reeder but neither are entirely satisfying.

Reeder's about the best there is

i've been getting really frustrated with instapaper - it's supposed to pick up RSS feeds when you point it at a blog URL but it doesn't work most of the time. maybe i'm doing something wrong. it sucks cause in every other respect it's phenomenal.