Beyond the Call: Free iPhone Apps
Just because you had to cut down to one meal a day to buy your iPhone doesn’t mean you can’t afford cool apps for it.
You finally have that long-coveted iPhone. True, you had to sell all your worldly possessions to swing it, but you’re content—almost. It’s not that sleeping on park benches is so bad—the surroundings are pleasant enough—but being unable to afford nifty applications for your gleaming communicator has you sliding into existential crisis. Take heart—free apps abound, and we’ve brought together reviews of four to provide the reassurance you need.
The fact that you own an iPhone means you live to communicate, so being unable to access your Facebook account because you hocked your computer must cause unbearable stress. Your anguished cries have been heard. Now there’s Facebook for the iPhone. For the moment, the features are pretty basic, so it may not fully sate your social-networking craving, but it can keep you from going into wholesale withdrawal.
Likewise, you needn’t live without streaming audio—Pandora for the iPhone brings that capability to your shiny Apple phone. The mobile app includes many of the features you’ll find in its big brother, including the popular capability that lets it deliver tunes geared to your tastes based on what you’ve listened to previously.
You don’t have to sacrifice news of your favorite sports teams, either. Sportacular will keep you up to date on baseball, pro and college football, NBA and college basketball, the NHL, and Major League Soccer. Sadly, there’s no NASCAR, but you have to be willing to sacrifice to own an iPhone.
Yahoo! oneConnect, which integrates contact management for Yahoo! users and for those of other networks, officially makes the service’s IM facility available on the iPhone. The application still has a long way to go if it’s ever to meet its goal of being the hub for your social-networking services, but Yahoo! Mail users who want easy access to their address books may find it useful.
You can read the reviews of these products by clicking on the links in this article. Take a look to reaffirm your belief that, when compared with sleek high-tech gadgets, four walls and a roof are way overrated.
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