Your recommended iphone apps

[Merc Owner 2B]

Just bought my first smartphone (iphone 4s) (welcome to the 21st century I hear you saying!) and thought it'd be interesting if others would give their views of recommended or favourite iphone apps.

The MBClub one will of course be first but what next? I realise we all use our phones differently but I thought it would be interesting to hear your views.

Paul

 

[brucemillar]

Nav Free

1) It's free

2) It takes full postcodes.

3) It has the safety camera database.


I also like BBC News - Sky News - and London Standard

Print Direct

This allows you to print to a wireless printer from your I-phone

 

[Ted]

MBClub UK App!

 

[Ted]

plus met office weather
cartunes is nice if you want to use the iPhone as your music source in the car
auto trader
speed test
I like star rover AND Skyview
ebay app
Coud WiFi if you have Sky
+ if you have sky+ you can set your recordings from the iPhone
TuneIn Radio - Internet radio is BRILLIANT
Motion X GPS if you like walking/running
Libon Voicefeed for a visual voicemail
Picassa web albums (cheaper than iCloud if you want to save more than 5gb photos
grenade lite - you really need this app

 

[Wagon]

waze , better than navfree I reckon , tunein radio , endomondo if you ride/walk or run , camera+ for snaps , mc d's finder if your fat ....

 

[Harrythedog]

Movie Action FX , great fun

 

[evdok]

TVcatchup
BBC iplayer

 

[swannymere]

Instagram - For making your photos fancy
BBC News
Shazam - For identifying music you don't know
Tunein Radio
Angry Birds - Addictive game
LogosQuiz - See above
Postino - Send photos as postcards
Met Office - Weather

Better than the Apps are the podcasts you can download each week from your favourite radio shows, i get;

Alex Lester - Early weekday mornings BBC Radio 2
Fighting Talk - Sport/comedy show Saturday mornings Radio 5
Desert Island Discs - Radio 4 - great archive as well.
The Dave Gorman Show - Sunday morning Comedy/Chat/Music show - Absolute Radio
The Frank Skinner Show - Sunday morning Comedy/Chat/Music show - Absolute Radio
The Danny Baker Show - Saturday Comedy/Chat show Radio 5
Simon Mayo Confessions - Radio 2

You can get a full list from the iTunes store and you can set it up to automatically download.

 

[wezza36]

+1 for logos quiz
Shazam
Roadpilot (only free for a week though)
Sleep Talk
Say no to 0870

 

[Merc Owner 2B]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. All loaded and testing!

Already addicted to logosquiz!

Thanks agaain, please keep 'em coming.

 

[markjay]

An OBD app with the associated ODB Bluetooth adapter, e.g.: App Store - DashCommand - OBD-II gauge dashboards, scan tool, and vehicle diagnostics

 

[BIG Sean]

If you have Sky the App is great if you are out and forget to record something - has to be at least a half hour before though

ebay and paypal are both very slick apps - don't bother with PC for ebay browsing now - all done on phone

Navfree is good and SkySports football is excellent

I have 'USB disk' app that replicates a thumb drive

Don't forget to install either Apple's own or an after market 'Device Locator' - mine called 'Device Locator' actually takes a photo of the person holding your stolen/lost phone and emails it to you - no good if it's a stranger but ideal if it's some scrote in the pub

Angry Birds, Cover Orange, cut the rope are all good fun and Zynga Poker is essential if you like texas hold em

 

[Kingy68]

If you have Sky the App is great if you are out and forget to record something - has to be at least a half hour before though

Last upgrade fixed that.

 

[Kingy68]

Around me.

If on Orange - Orange Weds, Backup, Your Orange, Orange wifi and Film to Go.

Accuweather

Sky Sports News
Livescore

Sky Go, Sky+, Sky Movies.
BBC Iplayer, ITV Player, Demand 5, 4oD Catchup, Veetle mobile, TV Catchup, TV Guide.
Netflix

Sky News
BBC News
Metro Phone Edition

Dragon Dictation
Bugme (Post it notes)

Social Network apps (Facebook, Linkedin, IPB Buddy etc)

IMBD

Netcarshow

Mapmyrun+ or Runkeeper.

Free Apps

Autotrader
Amazon, Ebay, Paypal

BBC Radio
Talksport
Shazam
Tunein Radio
Vevo
Manga Rock
Musebox
The Radio

Games (most loaded by or for my kids and a godsend to keep them quiet at times!).
FIFA12
Need Fro Speed Hot Persuit
Sonic Racing
Shadow Gun
Monopoly
Cut the rope
Angry birds
SWA
SMB2
Ragdoll2
Fragger
Jetpack
Temple Run
Logo Quiz

 

[gmk666]

Have you got kids? Whatever you do, don't get:

Talking Tom
Elmo's Monster Maker
Peppa Pig's Happy Mrs Chicken

In fact, if you've got kids, don't even let them know you've got an iPhone.

 

[evdok]

This is for people who have jailbroken devices, install 'xcon' from cydia to stop the apps from recognising the jailbreak thus making them unusable.
eg. skygo won't work on JB devices.

 

[evdok]

Also go to setting, general, accessibility, turn on 'speak selection' now whatever you have highlighted it will give the option to speak it out...nice!

 

[gmk666]

I'd never heard of Logo Quiz. Downloaded it this afternoon and I've just deleted it - it's infuriating. Not because of all the American companies I've never heard of, rather because of errors like this. (MOCAS, it's probably best if you look away now...)

 

[artyman]

Does anyone actually use a phone for making calls these days

 

[Merc Owner 2B]

I'd never heard of Logo Quiz. Downloaded it this afternoon and I've just deleted it - it's infuriating. Not because of all the American companies I've never heard of, rather because of errors like this. (MOCAS, it's probably best if you look away now...)

The one to use is logos quiz. (Note the "s")