Sure, their phones may have music but if you can afford an ipod, you’d probably buy one and use THAT for music. Besides, if your phone did everything, it would suck the life out of your battery.

Do you prefer to keep your music and phone separate? What would make you turn your phone into your primary music player?

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The app makes its debut at USD$3.99, which IMHO is steep for something you can access on the Internet for free. Here’s to hoping that they do something about the price. Maybe this has something to do with the location-based-services of the iPhone. We’ll see.

[App store link]

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My dad was addicted to Snood. So was I. It was like family bonding time before Facebook came with Farm Town. Snood was a classic. It was simple, elegant and highly addicting and its now on the iPhone / iPod touch. What makes Snood more interesting is its gearing towards social media: you can opt in for a 2 player mode that connects to Facebook to challenge your friends. There’s also a WiFi challenge mode. Overall, a brilliant time waster. I just bought it.

There are games that you pay for from the iTunes store that end up being forgotten, but Snood is here to stay despite its steeper USD $3.99 price tag.

[Buy it now]

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The Armory is a free application for the iPhone / iPod touch that allows you to login and view your avatar’s achievements, gear, talent tree, glyphs, and even detailed guild information for your character. Built into the application is a talent tree calculator, detailed loot from all the dungeons from the original WoW and two expansions, plus the ability to browse through all the other players of WoW in your region regardless of server. The app also includes an in-game calendar with a listing of global events such as the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza and the Darkmoon Faerie carnival schedules.

This is a MUST HAVE app for WoW players. It is essentially a pocketable WoWpedia which you should have side by side when you play for reference (most useful when trying to find vendors of certain materials).

[photos by author]

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I’ve joined the Sims 3 bandwagon, grabbing my copy off the shelf today for my desktop. Two days prior to the Sims 3 launch though, Sims 3 for the iPhone was released for a whopping USD $9.99 which is about half the price of the bigger game for your computer. What’s hot about the iPhone version is that it’s pretty much the real game, but revolves mostly around the Sim you create rather than the entire neighborhood. Go give it a try from the iTunes store. You won’t be disappointed! It’s Sims on the go!

[image taken from iTunes store]

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The only thing I don’t like is the obvious disallowing of running on the iPhone’s background. If you exit the app to multitask, you will have to connect again.

[photo c/o iTunes Music Store]

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GruvMe is interesting although in its current beta state there isn’t much to see. The site reminds me of a flash games site that caters to Nintendo Wii owners — since you can run flash on an Opera browser, technically speaking you can run these games on the Wii Browser. The same concept works for GruvMe, but they seem to be spinning the concept towards iPhone users who don’t want to be limited by the YouTube channel (odd?). GruvMe makes use of QuickTime to stream movies — both independent and blockbuster — as well as act as a social network of sorts.

I personally don’t know how services like GruvMe can make money as opportunity cost wise, there may be more ad dollars spent on other things, but since this is still on limited beta, we’re excited to see what they have in store.

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The MasterCard ATM Hunter utilizes the iPhone or iPod touch’s location awareness technologies to pinpoint the search. Users can customize their hunt based on their unique banking needs – such as focusing their search to a specific financial institution if they need to make a deposit or wish to avoid ATM withdrawal fees. MasterCard ATM Hunter can also pinpoint wheelchair accessible, drive-through, or 24-hour access ATMs and provide the directions to get there. Additionally, MasterCard ATM Hunter automatically provides users with helpful ATM safety tips.

Another useful app for the iPhone is out — AND IT IS FREE! The MasterCard ATM Hunter is now available on the iTunes Store. What it does is pretty self explanatory – you can make use of the iPhone’s location based tech to find the nearest ATM to withdraw cash.

Download it now at www.itunes.com/appstore/

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The findings might surprise and disappoint developers, many of whom regard the iPhone’s application ecosystem as the first real opportunity to build a business around wireless applications. Prior to the launch of the easy-to-use App Store, few phone users ever downloaded new applications to their phones. That meant that the best way for developers to offer their applications was to convince operators to preload the applications on phones — an expensive, time-consuming and challenging proposition.

The survey notes how paid apps are used 30% more in the suceeding days than freebies. This actually is evident when we see how the top 25 free apps are rapidly changing while the top 25 paid apps stay on top longer.

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According to the guys at Callpod, there is currently no technology for the iPhone that provides full security and encryption when you sync data to the PC or Macintosh. Thus the need for Keeper, an app so secure, it comes with military grade encryption that keeps your passwords and synced data too secure to handle.

Currently, Keeper sells for $0.99 at the iTunes store and is compatible with both iPod touch and iPhone. You can download the application here.

Oh and we weren’t kidding about the self-destruct mode.

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