"Why, yes I do"
I guess if there is one nice thing about having a first gen iPhone, it was relatively easy to buy one and never sign up for a two year contract.
Why??
I think of the iPhone like an iPod Touch but with: Camera, Mic, Speaker, External volume control, bluetooth. Oh, and it happens to be a phone, if you want to use it for that.
So what applications does this non-phone iPhone user use?
WeDict
If there was one application I would of predicted these would be twenty of on the day of launch, it was a dictionary application. There where two, one costs $29.99, the other is free and is just fine.
Stanza
Reading a book on the small iPhone screen seems intuitively doomed to awkwardness. I have been reading one of the supplied eBooks for the last three evenings without any discomfort at all.
Jott
If there is one application that has intrigued and frustrated me this is it. You talk, it record, sends to server, transcribes and sends back. Makes we want Dragon Dictate for the iPhone, also makes me want copy and paste.
Dobot Todos
There a quite a few TODO apps, this one is adequate, it breaks from the application norms by instead of deleting an item by "edit"->"click on minus sign"->"select delete" it just wants a swipe across the offending row and a "select delete".
AccuFuel
I want to prove to the world (well Dan who has a hybrid) that I can regularly get 42mpg in my car.
Tap Tap Revenge
If I want to show off what the iPhone is capable of, this is the app I fire up, and then challenge to a "Tap off" (and CRUSH, yes Rachana I'll take you on any day).
Chopper
Game has a nice use of the accelerometer, lean the phone back/forward/left/right.
Phone Saber
Hard for any self respecting X-gen'r not to get this.
Restaurant Nutrition
For the guys that eat fast food in the office, I can instantly see just how bad their food is for them, and inform them of it.
Pandora
Interesting enough to make me look in detail at the Apple licensing agreements to see what they say about streaming music over the cell network, apparently not much. They mention VOIP and not 'burdening the cell network' and that's about it.
