iPhone Apps


I don't know how all the corporate world/exchange server stuff is doing on the iPhone, but for music and gaming, the update's pretty cool. If you're purchasing music for your library especially, you gotta get an iPhone.

iPhone Music Apps that I find interesting:

1. Pandora for the iphone
For exploring unfamiliar bands you might like, this service is really neat. There's also the regular Pandora website to try, if you're interested. Their licensing agreements with the record companies only allow six skips per "station" per hour, and it feels like it's ramming certain artists down your throat sometimes, so it could be better, but it's still worth exploring.

2. Midomi
This is showing up on other phones too. If you go to a movie theater, Verizon has an extra-long ad for one of their phones with this type of service. It might be Midomi, for all I know. The idea is for you to sing or record a bit of a song on your phone, then this service attempts to figure out what song it is. Great in theory, but... Popular music works pretty well: I tested it on some Gorillaz, Gladys Knight, Fred Astaire. Classical, international searches fail. I tried some Vivaldi piece, and the response was some Mary J. Blige song. Hit or miss. It uses music & lyrics to figure it out. I gave it the intro to Same Old Song & Dance by Aerosmith, before the singing starts, and it nailed it. I gave it "Speak Low" by Billie Holiday, and it failed. I gave it "Body & Soul" off the same album, and it succeeded.

3. AOLRadio
Basically WiFi radio, so it's got the satellite radio feel. It works pretty well. Good method to mark the songs you like too.


With all this great gadgetry and wireless, the main problem now is power consumption. Laptops, phones, ipods.They suck it up! I'm living with the first version of the phone, and I heard it's been improved with the 3G version.

Posted: Wed - July 16, 2008 at 12:52 PM      

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