The day the iPhone 2.0 firmware upgrade came out, I spent most of the afternoon trying to connect to the overloaded servers to upgrade my phone. While I waited, I perused the App Store for apps, downloading the ones I wanted to try so that they would be ready to sync right away. I’ve trying out a few different apps that everyone seems to get like Remote, and I have a few others that I havenbeen ‘t really used yet, but thought I might want. But there are four (free [except for Vay]) apps that make me love my iPhone all over again: Twitterrific, Pandora, Aurora Feint, and Vay.
Twitterrific is a twitter client for the iPhone. I had used the Twitter web app before, and it got the job done. Twitterrific not only gets the job done, but it looks good, is well-implemented, and adds lots of new options for mobile tweets, including automatically adding photos from the camera to twitpic when you select a photo for a tweet. If you have an iPhone 3G, you can even geotag your tweets.
Pandora has been a popular internet radio service for a while, where you create stations from songs and artists that you like. Pandora plays music similar to & including what you listed. With this service on the iPhone, you basically have an infinite number of songs available for your listening pleasure.
Vay is the first RPG to show up on the iPhone. It was originally released for Sega CD in 1994 so it is a great way to get your 90’s Japanese RPG fix in wherever you are. It’s the first app I’ve actually paid for ($4.99) after Ben posted a tweet about it. The controls work well and the battle graphics have been slightly ramped up. Plus, thanks to my penchant for compulsively leveling up, I should be able to get nearly infinite game play out of this.
[Edit] To clarify: this game is really fun and addicting. If you like RPGs I recommend Vay.
Finally, Aurora Feint (The Beginning), is an addictive puzzle game that makes great use of the accelerometer for changing the puzzles’ orientation to gravity. You can level up to gain new abilities and make it easier to gather resources. Given that this app was made in a pretty short period of time, I expect that subesquent chapters of this iPhone only MMO will be something to watch out for.
