애플 스토어에서 인기있는 app 16가지 소개
전 facebook, Quickoffice, iFitness 만 가지고 있네요^^
나머지 것들도 사용해봐야지..
Best Social Media App: Facebook
Sixty-five million people a month currently access Facebook from their mobile phones, according to the social network. Its impressive iPhone application shows why mobile is exploding for Facebook. The original app has been upgraded twice, most recently with a new icon-based homescreen and personalisation features to help users keep tabs on their most important friends. The app is an excellent example of focusing on the features most useful for users on the go, while also making it simple to upload photos and videos. The best Facebook app on any platform, and currently the best example of social media on the iPhone.
Download from iTunes: free
Best Game: Flight Control
With more than 20,000 games available, the iPhone is laying waste to DS and PSP for quantity. What about quality, though? While there's no shortage of visually stunning 3D titles emerging, it's actually a 2D game that's taken the App Store by storm. The subject is air-traffic control: planes appear on-screen, and you guide them in to land by tracing their flight paths with your finger -- making sure they don't crash. Updates throughout the year have added new levels and aircraft, while its online leaderboards have fuelled bragging. There's even a Google Maps mash-up showing the top players around the world.
Download from iTunes: 59p
Best Celebrity App: Jamie's 20 Minute Meals
Jamie Oliver as an iPhone star? You might not like the man, but you can't find fault with his application. It's a collection of 50 recipes, complete with step-by-step instructions, photos and even 75 minutes of video of the man himself. No expense has been spared, either: the photos make everything look ravishing, the instructions are idiot-proof, and there's even a shopping list feature to help when sourcing the ingredients. Everything is part of the app too -- it's a whopping 404MB in size -- so you're never left stranded in mid-masala if you lose your connection. Proper -- sorry about this -- pukka.
Download from iTunes: £4.99
Best Music App: Spotify
Spotify doesn't need more gushing from us -- the streaming-music service has been feted by journalists, celebrities and music-biz bosses alike this year. Its iPhone app still deserves a hearty cheer though, for getting around the key Achilles Heel of streaming-music apps: what happens when you get on the Tube? With Spotify, what happens is you switch to the 3,333 songs you've cached on the iPhone itself, in playlists. The free-to-download app requires a £9.99 monthly subscription to actually work, but it's a powerful reason to upgrade. Now, if only it could run in the background like the Android version...
Download from iTunes: free, plus £9.99 per month
Best Office App: Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite
Would you believe it: Microsoft hasn't released its Office suite for iPhone. That's left the way clear for rivals, with Quickoffice Mobile Suite being the best of the bunch so far. Its basic features include Quickword and Quicksheet for editing Word and Excel docs respectively. Copy and paste, text formatting, formulas and all the other features you'd expect are there. But it's the features beyond that which make it a must-have for iPhone-toting workers. Files can be transferred over Wi-Fi, and it can be used to remotely access your MobileMe iDisk. But even just for basic document editing, it's an excellent choice.
Download from iTunes: £5.99
Best News App: Newsstand
As a headline-surfing tool, the iPhone is a joy -- from iPhone-optimised Web sites such as BBC News and The Guardian through to dedicated apps for a host of newspapers and broadcasters. For those with a slightly more technical bent, however, Newsstand is the best RSS reader available on any smart phone. Partly because of its smooth synchronisation with Google Reader online, and partly because it's slick and smart. Categories, an integrated mini-browser, and the ability to share stories via email or Twitter all work like a dream, while there's also the option to browse via a virtual newspaper rack. That feature's a novelty, but the app is most certainly not.
Download from iTunes: £2.99
Best Novelty App: I Am T-Pain
Spotify might be the best iPhone app for listening to music, but I Am T-Pain is the most innovative and downright silly (in a good way) app for making it. The app uses the same Auto-Tune technology that every R&B star and their aunt has used in the last year, allowing you to sing along to a selection of T-Pain songs with your voice turned suitably robot-like. The results can then be published to Facebook or emailed to friends -- with a freestyle mode to send them any message you like. I Am T-Pain is a novelty, but it's a novelty that'll keep you and your friends laughing like a drain for, ooh, weeks. Which is weeks longer than most novelty apps.
Download from iTunes: £1.79
Best Money-Saver: Meter Readings
iPhone users who are parsimonious with their remaining pennies will love Meter Readings, which for just 59p aims to save you much, much more in the long term. How? It lets you track your household utility meters -- electricity, gas and water -- and then calculates how much you're using them and how much it's costing you. Crucially, it supports the fiddly multi-tariffs favoured by many energy suppliers here in the UK, before turning everything into pretty graphs to pore over when trying to figure out whether to change supplier. Not an app you'll show off in the pub, but one that'll ensure you can afford a few extra rounds.
Download from iTunes: 59p
Best Communications App: Nimbuzz
The best messaging app for iPhone remains its native email client, but since that comes built in, we've looked further afield. Nimbuzz is the best unified instant-messaging app for iPhone, supporting traditional IM networks like Yahoo, Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger, as well as social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. The addition of Skype is what makes it worth having, however, as does its price: free. Its interface does a good job of making sense of all these networks, and the latest version offers push notifications. Against stiff competition, this is the app we'd recommend for now.
Download from iTunes: free
Best Finance App: iXpenseIt
Like Meter Readings, this app isn't one of the sexier uses for iPhone. It's mightily useful, however, for anyone looking to track expenses or plan a monthly budget. The interface is clean and quick to use, with good visual representations of your spending by category. It feels secure too -- a concern for many corporate users -- with password protection and the ability to backup and restore data at will. And if you want a gimmick -- but a genuinely useful one -- you can take snaps of individual receipts to be stored in your records too. Just what the company accountant ordered.
Download from iTunes: £2.99
Best Health App: iFitness
Want to lose pounds at a startling rate? Buy a pay-as-you-go iPhone. Ho ho ho. But if you're looking to get fit, there's no shortage of iPhone apps that can help. iFitness is the most polished and comprehensive one available, offering a database of more than 230 exercises, complete with photos showing how you should look when doing them. There are instructions too, but the real value of this app is the ability to compile a custom workout, and track your progress -- complete with the ability to email the results to yourself. The ability to backup this data is important, too.
Download from iTunes: £1.19
Best Travel App: Qype Radar
Yes, you can use your iPhone to find train times, but what to do once you get where you're going? For a British audience, this is where Qype Radar comes in. It offers user reviews of restaurants, bars, shops, hotels and hundreds of other categories of place, with a five-star ratings system, and extra information including addresses and phone numbers. It ties in Google Maps to offer directions, and also lets you upload your own reviews from your iPhone, including photos. Plenty of blather is talked about user-generated content, but Qype Radar is one of the apps making UGC genuinely useful in your daily life.
Download from iTunes: free
Best Location App: foursquare
The same people who were buzzing about Twitter in its early days are buzzing about foursquare now. Cynics may mutter that this isn't a recommendation, but it's certainly a sign foursquare should be more than a novelty. The gist is simple: 'check in' when visiting places in a supported city (only London so far in the UK), and earn Xbox-style achievement badges for specific milestones. It's part game, competing against your friends for points, but also part nightlife guide, letting you see who's been where most recently. It relies on having a few mates using it, but if you do, it's an intriguing mash-up of social networking, location and game.
Download from iTunes: free
Best Utility: RedLaser
Are barcodes exciting? Not really. But RedLaser makes a good fist of making them much more interesting. It lets you scan barcodes using your iPhone camera, identifying products and then hunting down the best price online via Google Products and Amazon. The key use: you're in a shop and want to check if a product is available cheaper online. It's fully localised for the UK in terms of currency and Web sites, too. The serious use might be saving cash and sending high-street firms bust, but the silly use involves scanning every barcode in sight, just to see if you can stump it.
Download from iTunes: £1.19
Best Kids App: Bebot Robot Synth
Bebot isn't designed specifically for kids: it's not one of the many colour-spotting, shape-sorting toddler apps on the iPhone. Even so, it's the single app that's made this writer's child constantly try to steal dad's iPhone throughout 2009. It's a musical synthesiser that's capable of some powerful effects, if you get into the filtering, looping and distortion settings. What's of more relevance to toddlers, however, is the fact that when they touch the screen, a cartoon robot moves his mouth to make the noises. Simple, but sublime. If proper techno DJs had this, they might smile more.
Download from iTunes: £1.19
Most Futuristic App: Layar Reality Browser
We'll admit it: the main reason right now for having an augmented-reality browser on your iPhone is so you can tell people you have an augmented-reality browser on your iPhone. It sounds a bit Tron, and is a cheaper alternative to an actual lightbike. But AR apps such as Layar are also hugely intriguing, layering Web data over your handset's live camera feed, letting you spin round in Piccadilly Circus, for example, and see what places nearby have Wikipedia entries. Developers can create their own layers for anything they like -- gigs, house prices, sex offenders... It's a glimpse at the future. Possibly.
Download from iTunes: free
