Daily Debrief: Of 500 new iPhone apps, some shine, some stink

On Thursday morning, in coordination with the iPhone 3G's first worldwide release in New Zealand, Apple launched its latest version of iTunes. Now available on the 7.7 version are more than 500 different third-party applications for your new iPhone 3G.

Ranging in price from free to a couple bucks a pop, some sound pretty great, some sound downright pointless. Who's going to pay a buck to turn your iPhone screen into a flashlight? On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, I chat with Webware.com's Josh Lowensohn about these initial offerings.

[calpundit]

I don't have an iPhone, but I've had more than one occasion where I've been in a dark room, or at a concert, or in a car with no indoor light trying to make out something by the light of my Blackberry.

Personally, the flashlight program sounds like a useful item. If RIM had an application that turned my BB screen into a flashlight, I'd pay a buck for it.

[sanfranscot]

They need to research this a bit better there are actually 3 flashlight apps and one of them is free so it kind of negates his sneering comment about it costing a dollar.

I think the flashlight thing is very cool in fact, and I do that already at night by just having the home page on.

There are lots of very cool apps there, and some not so good

[Marcia Boone]

I came close to hitting a girl last night in the dark. At the last second, I could see her cell phone glowing. She was talking and did not notice she had strayed into the street.

I will be standing in line for my iPhone and a free flashlight would be a good app I think. YES, I would even pay $1 for it.

[aaronjwalker]

@ the above three comments

BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 all have flashlight apps. Some are free, some are very inexpensive.

A simple search for your prefered device software will provide them for you. Whatever mobile phone platform you are on, It's really not very hard to find them if you take the time to look.

[canbilteknoloji]

Thank you Kara, for this nice and explanatory article here!

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