I thought I'd see a lot of the software I use from the 3rd party repos, but nope. The only cool applications I could find are Weatherbug, Twittelator, and NetNewsWire. AOL Radio is the only app I really like. NetNewsWire is just an interface to Gator so that is a waste, because I used the mobile web app which was just as good. Now I went from syncing my Google calender, locking up secure information, reading commercial books, and playing many awesome games to three stupid applications that I could get via web applications. I guess I could buy some games or join Apple's service to sync things, viva la capitalism! I am really disapointed and hope they jailbreak this bastard soon so I can have the best of both worlds. One thing I really cannot believe is people are selling Flashlight apps! WTF people, get real - open anything with a white background and save your money.

My wife updated on a Mac and I updated on Vista. Both upgrades went smoothly, but neither of us can use the mail application, it simply crashes. I can't even add or remove accounts, that does nothing. It did add all my account information though. I am using the web version of Gmail, which is actually really good, until Apple fixes it. I did a reset in settings and that was no help. 

So, now that I am stuck - I will share some web apps I find useful and might be interesting to others finding this to be a hard transition:

Earthcomber - Find things, see friends out and about, get reviews of the things you found, and even directions. No need to buy the Movie.app as you can get movies times from here also. (iPhone link)

Meebo - Chat client that supports all mojor chat networks (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber). (No iPhone Link Needed)

TextOnPhone - Book reader. Keeps track of what you have read, take notes, and discuss books with others. (No iPhone Link Needed)

NewsGator - RSS reader and organizer. (iPhone link)

Weather.Com - Weather for the iPhone with radar, warnings, etc... (iPhone link)

PimpMyNews - News that speaks to you. (iPhone link)

Translation - Translate languages. (No iPhone Link Needed)

iGoogle - Google gadgets on the iPhone as well as links to Gmail, Calender, Reader, you name it. This covers just about everything! (No iPhone Link Needed)


I have also used the mobile versions of Live Journal, Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, Ping.FM, and Brightkite etc as most big sites now support mobile devices. They seem to work fine even if they are not as feature rich and pretty as native apps. Considering they all pretty much talk to the internet, speed of the applications seem to be close making is less important. Games however really need to be native in many cases, especially where Edge is concerned. I have never used 3G and I have the first gen iPhone so I cannot try the web games to compare. Here you will find many web based games if you're not will to fork out $10 dollars for Ms. Pacman. I will consider buying Pool from the App store because it's just really good.

I still haven't decided whether to get the new phone. It seems like a rip off. If they would have made the camera better and allowed the installer.app to be a supported AppStore Application I would be at the Apple store right now. Oh well, let the new monopoly begin...