Shazam is truely impressive. The remote is fantastic as well, though it's going to cost me another airport to get wireless music in every room.
I dowloaded a free compass which turned out to be absolute crud, it's more of a sundial, you have to stick your finger on the screen and judge the shadow, at least it was free.
The Facebook app works for me, but I still prefer using the website on the browser as it has more functions.
SBB timetable, brilliant.
Flashlight is another useful app.
I saw there was an English-German dictionary program to buy, anyone tried it, can you recommend it?
Ultralingua? Yeah I forked out and I think its worth it. Its a very comprehensive dictionary and has all the verb conjugations. I don't use it continuously, but it is useful for the word you don't know when your out and about.
I downloaded that last night and added my MSN jabber and aol accounts and none of them were showing up as having any friend lists - looked a bit rubbish
There is a Eng-Ger dictionary available for jailbroken phones. You download the free WeDict application from the Apple App store and then download the dictionary files using Cydia (obviously the jail broken part).
Love the remote application, though it makes me wish the phone had an IR transmitter so I could control all my gizmos through it. That day may soon be near though, as a bunch of home automation apps were shown off at a show.
recently, i have been using iphunny which downloads topical humourous comments from the likes of jay leno and conan o brien... some of them make me smile, and smiling is important.
seismometer is also fun... does what it says on the tin.
I installed Fring on my iPhone 3G and it all works cool e.g Yahoo Msgr, Skype and SIP's.... However one feature I dislike which is that the communicator doesn't stay ON after switching to the main menu or other application. I spoke to my friends who use Nokia with Fring and there is no such problem. Does this mean everytime I want to chat I need to stay in Fring mode or is it just one of the early versions of Fring on iPhone 3G that needs to have this bug fixed?
Apple doesn't allow for programs to work in the background. So yes - Fring needs to be open all the time if you want to remain connected. That's probably the most annoying thing about the iPhone :-(
I was trying out the SkypeOut part of Fring over the weekend and it's terrible - massive audio lag which makes it almost unusable for me. That was on the wireless network at home. Using the same service on the laptop on the same network worked great.
Don't know about the other SIP services though, might well be a different story.
At least you have managed to get thru with your Skype out ... When I tried to make a Skypeout phone call to my colleagues in South Africa who btw also use 3G, I would get a notorious message ''Voice is not available with 3G connection type'' so is that to say it only works with WLAN?
yes, that's the next limitation. It's part of Apple deal with the phone providers - they don't allow cheap calls to be made through 3G. The Android phone doesn't either, btw.
So summarizing not all the gold is shining... Once you get this cellphone you are frilled by all the applications but soon you realize that there are so many limits that make it less attractive than e.g. Nokia95???
the iPhone has massively superior usability but its functionality is inferior to some other smartphones due to mostly aritfical limitations. Everyone has to decide what's more important to him. I personally still have my iPhone but I'm looking at some alternatives (notably the Samsung Omnia and the HTC Touch HD). I'm not in any kind of rush to switch, though - the iPhone's not THAT bad, especially since it now has decent stability (introed through FW 2.1)