What apps on your iPhone home screen?
iPhone Apps are socially becoming an increasing part of dinner conversations.
Every time I’m with friends, colleagues and business contacts we always end up discussing the apps that you use on your iPhone.
This is a huge change from the old world of mobile where the debate was always around the specification of the devices we used.
I’m always intrigued to see what Apps have made the very first home screen on anyone’s iPhone.
On my iPhone I have the following additional apps.
1) TripIt – I love the integration with my calendar so all my flights and travel information ends up there. I also love the simplicity as to how it consolidates all my travel details.
2) Facebook and Tweetie – these are my favourite apps for keeping up with my social network.
3) Toodledo is so far the best to-do manager I’ve found to integrate with their web service.
4) National Rail – I travel on the train to work and this actually gives me more up to date information than the information systems at the station I travel from!
Looking at my apps I find it really interesting to see that:
a) They all hook up to web services (and aren’t mobile only)
b) They are all travel and communication related.
So what are the Apps that have made the coveted first home screen on your iPhone?
The obvious Facebook and Twitter clients are there but also have CoPilot UK on there. I just love havign my Sat Nav on my mobile device with a nice size screen
My home screen consists of the following apps:
I have the standard applications – Settings, App Sore, Clock and Maps.
The downloaded apps I have are:
Sky Mobile TV – Watch the footy wherever I can get a wifi connection.
Sky+ App – Incase I forget to record something.
Sky Sports App, checking live footy scores on the go
Drop Box – Access to files on the go
VNC – Access to my Mac Mini home server when the missus is watching eastenders!
Air Mouse – Used as a wireless mouse for the mac mini (hooked up to the HDTV)
Apple Remote – Pickin a song from anywhere in the house.
Skype – speaking to the parents in Australia.
Ping – pinging the parents in Australia
Mail – checking my Gmail
Facebook and Twitterific – for the socialite in me
On my fixed bar I have the Phone, Messages, Safari and Ipod apps as I use these the most.
I think my home screen covers my three passions in life – Sport, My Mac and my family/social life.