iPhone App News Roundup: June 22, 2008
iPhone developers never sleep, since we're still getting a steady stream of news about upcoming App Store over the weekend. Here's the latest:- Alex Price over at The Mac Box has a few free "toys" that will be available at App Store launch. PhoneSaber turns your iPhone into a virtual weapon worthy of a Jedi, while NearPics uses Panaramio.com to find pictures that were taken near your present location.
- Meanwhile, Brian Tunning pinged us about NotepadSync, which consists of matching applications on iPhone and Mac to enter and edit notes. The notes are synced wirelessly to a central store, so there will be a $14.95 estimated annual cost for the service.
- Another ebook reader for iPhone, Books, is being readied for the App Store by a team of developers including three Zachs!
- Probably the coolest App Store contender I've seen so far is Nuance's Voice Search app. As you can see in this video, you speak your search criteria, it is sent to Nuance's servers for recognition, and then text-based criteria are pushed back to your iPhone to do a search. Thanks to Gunnar Evermann at Nuance for this tip.
- Andy Qua is a recent Mac convert and new father who has developed three games for iPhone -- CubeRunner (steer your iPhone through a landscape littered with cubes), iCave (fly a ship through a cave avoiding obstacles), and iNono (puzzle game for solving nonograms).
- Greg Bernhardt had info about GroceryZen, an app that simplifies grocery shopping by organizing recipes, items, and locations in the grocery store.
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I'm totally buying groceryzen. There is a shopping list program for jailbroken iPhones but it pretty much sucks ass.
June 23 2008 at 12:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDude i think the nearpics and phonesaber apps will be pretty fun, albeit novelty. But they're free, what the hell are you complaining about? i mean if you don't like them don't install them it's as simple as that.
who are you to say what is crap and what isn't? its all subjective.
That speech recognition app looks really cool. Along those same lines, I'm hoping for one of those music recognition apps (hold the phone up to a speaker for a few seconds, the phone sends the data up to a server, and returns info about the song).
June 23 2008 at 12:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWith the Saber app, do you think we'll get a remake of the Star Wars Kid, but with an iPhone loaded with the Saber app instead?!
Please God, I hope not!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU
that phonesaber sure does look lame
June 23 2008 at 12:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi think that the voice search app would be good if instead of it converting your speech into a search the could convert it into text for to use in the SMS application. apple, in fact, should do that for their headphones that have the microphone on them. so you can talk instead of type.
June 22 2008 at 11:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWould it be possible to consolidate a list of announced apps into one page? It would be easier to browse and see what's coming that way.
June 22 2008 at 7:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySimply awesome stuff. How can those iPhone clones compete when the apps store launches?? They can't. The great thing about it is that no more searching all over the place for amazing apps, its all going to be there on the iPhone/Touch for users to find.
June 22 2008 at 7:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCool. I'm very excited that they're going to make Books.app official. It'll be very interesting to see how they handle adding books and what, if any patches, they roll in from rubooks. Really looking forward to seeing any improvments and I hope they have a version I can pay for.
June 22 2008 at 7:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI simply must have something like books.app in a smart phone. How will non jail broken phones be able to synchronize files? Has anyone heard?
June 23 2008 at 8:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDude, while I feel there will be very cool apps on the App Store at the opening day, I think we'll also see a lot of crApp!
NearPics? Who would ever want to use that??? It's just an excuse to use the location features of the iPhone...
Totally useless... At least it's free!
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