It is official, my first ever iPhone was delivered yesterday.
I finally do not have to be the envious one now that I have the amazing new iPhone 4S and all its wonder.
In fact, this is my first ever smartphone.
Kind of shocking for someone who has their bachelors in computer engineering. So while I know that I bought a phone, I feel like there is more to it.
I use to be a PC person. Actually, I despised everything that Apple made because of the fact that they did not have a prolific community of developers.
Ten years ago, if you wanted to program for Apple, you had to be completely dedicated. For a high school boy that really wanted to just make programs to cheat at Yahoo! Chess online or make productive programs for their handheld devices, I saw Microsoft as the company that had their arms wide open to programmers. I exclusively embraced the Microsoft .NET Framework for almost six straight years.
Then came the iPod and the technology world would be forever changed.
I Heart Apple
From that day on, Apple’s marketing plan would be about creating something more than a device, both a product, community, and brand. After a series of iPods, they decided to rock the world again with the iPhone by giving the user something more than just a phone. Now the iPhone 4S is more than just a phone, MP3, HD video camera, or something to surf the web.
The App Store is a multiple million dollar business for many companies with apps to do everything from spend hours killing pigs with birds, to apps that help you find your car, to apps that will always keep you connected to your favorite social media networks.
On top of the usefulness of Apple’s products, they make everything they sell look sexy. The newest iPhone 4S not only looks good when turned off, the Siri integration is completely captivating, and they have not messed with the iOS design which is perfect. They truly go the extra mile in designing their devices.
This is my first iPhone and I would love your help with knowing the best apps to download.
Lee says
Some of my faves:
Instagram, Weather Channel, Facebook Messenger, Wunderlist, Twitter (official), plaintext, apple trailers, wikipanion, dropbox, number guru, apple cards, shazam, engadget… and way more. Good luck.
Jeremy Smith says
Thanks for the recommendations!
James Cooper says
Two words: Angry Birds!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, Wunderlist and dropbox are musts. Also the Bible app from Lifechurch.tv is great. If you’re a guitar (or ukulele…) player then the ‘optima guitar tuner’ is very handy. If you’re into ebooks, kindle app and stanza and pretty good.
Have fun!
Jeremy Smith says
How is Wunderlist different from Reminders? Thanks for the recommendations!
James Cooper says
Reminders is on the iPhone. Wunderlist is on the iPhone, Mac, Windows, Android and auto syncs! Have a read of James’s review of it on: https://churchm.ag/must-have-android-apps/ It nearly made my top5 mac apps!!! I also now use it as my task manager for work as well…
Eric J says
One cool thing about reminders is the location based alerts, I hear it os really easy with Siri to input them.
Chris Ames says
Noteshelf (not: penultimate, upad, bamboo)
Waze for GPS & Traffic
Reeder for RSS
Instagram for time-suck
Diptic for photo framing
Infinity Blade for badassery
Stratus to move files/links quickly to/from computer
Calcbot to promote killer app developers
PlainText or Nebulous Notes for note taking.
Jeremy Smith says
Thanks for the app suggestions. I’ll look into them!
Eric J says
http://gizmodo.com/5676549/the-best-iphone-apps
http://tipb.com
http://www.idownloadblog.com/
reeder is a great rss app http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reeder/id325502379?mt=8
waze is awesome for free turn by turn navigation http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/waze-gps-traffic-social-fun!/id323229106?mt=8
youversion for the bible http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bible/id282935706?mt=8
camera+ for photos http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id329670577?mt=8
Gasbuddy to find cheap gas http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gasbuddy-find-cheap-gas-prices/id406719683?mt=8
Jeremy Smith says
Thanks for the links, will definitely check them out.
Mike Singletary says
Evernote – Superpowered note taking and syncing
Things – Task and project management, and their cloud sync will release soon and works like a charm
Dropbox – File management
Agenda – I have a seperate Google calendar that I use as a day planner, and I use Agenda to browse it
Echofon Pro – Great Twitter app, one of the few that features all links and usernames as active in timeline. The official Twitter app requires extra swipes and clicks.
Read It Later – Great for those articles that you just don’t have time for right now
MobileRSS – RSS reader (Reeder is good too, but I’ve been using MobileRSS for a while and don’t care to switch. Works great)
Instagram – Social photo network
8mm – Really cool vintage video camera app
ESV Bible – Bible reading app. Fast and Slick.
Mint.com – Budgeting on the go
Stratus – Cloud App file link management
Wunderlist is a great free todo list app. Not quite as robust as others, but very polished, syncs everywhere, and can’t beat the price.
Jeremy Smith says
Thanks for the list. For the ones that cost something, is it worth it?
Jay Caruso says
Tweetbot for Twitter.
Mapquest for GPS (Turn by turn and FREE)
Evernote
Translate
Dropbox
Shazam (great for identifying song name and artist you don’t recognize)
For photos:
Instagram (much more a social network than photography app but you can edit in other programs and still share with Instagram)
Camera+ – The best camera app out there.
Pro HDR – Excellent app for capturing HDR images.
PhotoShake – Great for making quick collages of multiple images
Jeremy Smith says
Thanks man!