An iPhone is not only a medium of connecting calls, sending emails, navigating through maps, enjoying one’s favorite audio/video on a wider screen or browsing websites; there is more to an iPhone than all these mere any-phone-functions. If only one knows the right applications to fill into one’s iPhone, having this gadget becomes an experience unmatchable in delight.

Let us have a look at few essential iPhone applications.

Turn Your Phone into a TV/Radio:

“www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer” is a website that provides a UK resident with loads of media content; along with a recording option also. Sling Media is about to release its iPhone client, that will allow users to stream live TV on their iPhone. If tuning into one’s preferred radio station is the choice, there are two applications that can be downloaded for this purpose; “Tuner Internet Radio” and “last.fm.”

Dictaphone:

iPhone doesn’t come with an inbuilt voice recorder, but this loophole is filled up by Griffin, with their “iTalk.” With the help of this application, user can record, pause and resume, and attach an audio with a recorded file.

Dictionary:

“Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus” is a UK-English based word helper, with pronunciations and hyperlinked meanings for further study.

Book Reading:

Reading e-books is an obsession with a major part of world’s community. An iPhone holder gets many options of reading e-books on their device including “Classics”, “Stanza”, “e-reader” and the newly-launched “Kindle for iPhone”. These applications give a whole book-reading experience with bookmarks, finger page-flipping etc.

Classics, is a short little application with a good collection of books, but lacks the option of adding one’s own books there. To fill up this lacuna, we have Stanza. A better option is Kindle for iPhone, with a huge library at Amazon from where books can be bought.

Camera:

Low-quality camera is one drawback of iPhone. “Camera bag” is an application that gives image effects options, like Polaroid and ancient, for picture-taking, as well as modifies existing photos.

Music Composition:

With a Bass Guitar, a Keyboard, Drums and an enthusiastic audience, this is “Band”, which enables music composition for an amateur.

GPS Locating:

Do you want to get your position recorded at regular intervals, or even better, want to see your track live on the map? Go download “Trails”.

Light Saber:

This cool, though not very useful, application, turns your iPhone into a light saber by displaying a picture of your Jedi weapon of choice and using the iPhone’s accelerometer to produce light saber sound effects when you swing your iPhone to and fro.

Rulers and Measures:

“Ruler Phone” and “iHandy Carpenter” are two useful applications designed to help measure lengths; and pack a ruler, a plumb line, a protractor and a spirit level.

Shopping:

Now, an iPhone holder can shop online at Apple’s App Store, iTunes Store and Amazon’s iPhone optimized Store.

Seismometer:

A fun application; that shows graphs when the phone is jolted.

Games:

What is a phone without sober gaming? There are numerous high-quality games available at Apple’s App Store. Buy them, download them, play them, and forget about your PS.

Number Pad:

“Number Key” connects to the Mac laptop, and facilitates the user with using the number-pad visible on iPhone’s screen. No more one has to go on tapping that terribly long straight number row.

Language Learning:

Lastminute.com has released lots of dictionaries and phrase books in French, Italian, Greece, German, Portuguese, and Spanish etc.

Old Booth:

It is an application that allows the user to put friends’ faces onto the heads of classic American yearbook-style shots. A nice pass time!

Control Remotely:

“Remote” and “Keynote remote” are made by Apple, to control iTunes and presentations remotely. “Air Mac” provides the user with an on-screen mouse and keyboard with which Mac can be controlled remotely.

External Storage Device:

“Air Sharing” turns the iPhone into a Network Attached Storage device, which tells the iPhone’s IP address. Connect it to Mac, Windows or Linux, and get a better view of files stored in your phone.

Atomic clock:

By syncing with Apple’s time servers, it shows the exact time. “CS2 Atomic Clock” looks a lot like the real one in Germany.

VoIP Phoning:

“True Phone” makes an iPod a phone, and enables an iPhone holder to make inexpensive calls.

Flip a Coin:

Go back to your childhood when you used to flip coins to settle arguments and decide turns in games. “iHandy coin Flip” and “MotionX Dice” give you the opportunity to start arguing over petty issues again, only to settle them.

These applications are either free of cost or are available for very economical prices. Get one straightly from the App Store in your iPhone, or visit iTunes from your computer to get a suitable application for your phone.

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