My Favourite iPhone Applications

My new iPhone 3GS handset finally arrived on Wednesday, along with one for Mrs Blair.  I think it’s been a long time since I’ve had a new phone, or even a new device that has blown me away so much.  The ease of use is awesome, and you have to use the phone for a few hours to appreciate how little things like being able to silence calls with one button, lock the phone with the same button, adding phone favourites easily etc make the iPhone a great mobile… and that’s before you even start adding applications or browsing the web with Safari.  I really wish I’d got one sooner….

The real acid test has been my wife.  I have to confess that I kind of forced the upgrade on her, as I’ve tried repeatedly in the past and failed to get her to use the mobile internet and the iPhone would be my latest attempt.  When the iPhone 3GS arrived I had to really badger her to even open the box, and after about 30 minutes she relented and then put it immediately down, which was disappointing.

However, later that evening I found her browsing the app store downloading applications and buying tracks in iTunes.  Since then it’s been almost impossible to take the phone away from her, and she’s been using most of the great applications we’ve discovered together. All in all it’s been a good tech education week in the Blair family, as I’ve also just set my folks up in Jamaica with Vonage, so they are now using VoIP to call the UK!

Below are the best apps we’ve installed so far on our new iPhone 3GS handsets.

SugarSync

The best application I’ve installed on our iPhone 3GS handsets is SugarSync.  I have a Windows Home Server at home that organises all of our music, videos, photos and documents and makes them accessible around the home.   Accessing our files outside of the home has always been a bit of an issue because of (i) the access method being clunky and (ii) my poor upstream speed that made accessing large files painful.

With a bit of magic, I’ve installed SugarSync on my PCs and WHS which syncs all the files between PCs, but more importantly to the cloud so I can access files on the move with their great iPhone client.  SugarSync offer 2GB of free storage to all users, which should be enough for most users.  Luckily I had a 250GB free account lying around that SugarSync gave me last year for testing, so I’ve now uploaded my key files to SugarSync.  Now wherever my wife and I are, we can access all of our files on the move.

IM+ With Push

IM+ is one of the few iPhone apps that takes advantage of the Apple push functionality.  It supports msn, skype, twitter, facebook, Yahoo and the other IM networks

Paper Toss

Very addictive game and I love the regional high score tables.

Shazam

Now I can finally find out what the songs I hear on the radio are.  I’ve wanted to use this service for years, ever since it launched in around 2002.  Their first business model wasn’t very good (I think it cost 50p per SMS), but I’m glad they’ve become successful.

Evernote

This is an extremely powerful app, and the more I use this, the more I think I will come to rely upon it.

What’s your favourite iPhone app?

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