Favorite iPhone Apps of 2008
- Instapaper – Synergizes web reading between the phone and your computer through ‘the cloud.’
- Evernote – Synchronizes notes between the phone and the computer through ‘the cloud.’
- Delivery Status Touch – Tracks orders/packages/deliveries, gets information through ‘the cloud.’
- Air Sharing – Allows you to copy all sorts of files to the phone over WiFi for viewing and reference without any network access
- Now Playing – The best way to look up movie times and reviews. Uses phone location data to find theaters around you.
A note about the cloud:
Cloud synchronization is a key theme for many great mobile apps, because, with a persistent internet connection, the iPhone is a revolutionary tool to connect your life when you’re out and about with your life on your computer. This is vitally important to mobile computing because no one wants to enter much information on a little device, but we want that information quickly accessible when we’re out and about. Synching with the could is already working magic for the first 3 apps above (they wouldn’t be on any top list without this feature), and you’ll be seeing it all over the place over the next year (for example, iWork.com).