The saga of the booming iPhone App Store continues with a stream of new apps for use on the world's favorite smartphone (according to surveys) pouring out every day. Here are some of the latest and greatest:
Plank: A first in iPhone gaming, playing this puzzle game is based exclusively upon the iPhone accelerometer (the device's movement detector that, among other things, switches between landscape and portrait view when you tilt the phone). A different type of marble game, Plank includes movement controls like tilting and shaking the device.
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Slifter: A local product search tool for iPhone-using consumers across the country. Users can share promotions and prices and search more than 350 million products from over 200,000 retail stores. It allows you to search availability in local store inventories, sort searches by distance or price, view product images and maps to the stores.
Radiolicious: And while we're on the subject of localization (as it is, after all, the search rage of the coming age), this program helps iPhone users to listen to local radio stations through their iPhones.
As well as the above listed iPhone Apps, one that cannot be ignored is Google Maps.
Check this out - just after Google released its Google Android mobile operating system, a new contender in the so-far ineffective race to top the iPhone, Goolge makes one of its most popular offerings available for use on its new leading competitor's device.
The offering: GoogleEarth. And the newest platform supporting it: the iPhone. In a classic case of two great tastes tasting great together, Apple devotees users can now access GoogleEarth from their iPhones as well as their iPod Touches, downloadable through the iTunes Store.
GoogleEarth is the revered 3D geospatial mapping tool that superimposes aerial photography and satellite imagery to come up with the most accurate, interactive, and localized mapping tool available to date.
One feature that the iPhone brings to GoogleEarth is its deft and dexterous multi-touch interface, making interaction with the popular program even easier than ever.
The funniest part of all this? GoogleEarth has yet to be made available on the HTC G1, the first Google Phone. How backwards is that?
Great New iPhone Apps