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Best of free iPhone Apps plus contests
July 20th, 2008, 1:24 am · 3 Comments · posted by Gadgetress
Lots of news in the deals sector of technology. Microsoft cut the Xbox price to $299, from $350. A new $350 model, out next month, will include a 60 GB hard drive. … Another price cut comes fromthe Ooma internet-based phone service. It’s now $250, from an earlier $400, and it’s available at Best Buy. … AT&T hinted that it will soon offer all iPhone owners free Wi-Fi at AT&T’s 17,000 hotspots before yanking the deal off the web …
But most of the free news this week comes from the iPhone’s Ap store, which, says Apple, offers 25 percent for free and 90 percent below $10.
Here are some iPhone Apps roundups:
- 17 free iPhone Apps you need right now (PCWorld)
- Top 10 iPhone Apps to impress a date (Electric Pig)
- Top 10 iPhone Apps to get you promoted (Electric Pig)
- A look at business apps in the iPhone App store (Information Week)
- 20 Cool iPhone Apps (PC World)
- Top 11 iPhone Apps (Time)
- Top 5 must-have iPhone Apps for students (College On the Record)
- The 16 best free iPhone Apps (PCAdvisor)
- iPhone Apps we like: Pandora (Gizmodo)
- The iPhoneBlog forum enlisted readers to post reviews of iPhone apps and rewarding them with a 25 percent discount on accessories.
- And then there’s … Removing stubborn iPhone apps (iPhone Atlus)
Contests
Win an HDTV – and that’s second prize in Quizno’s Las Vegas Dream Weekend Giveaway. Grand prize is a trip to Vegas for the winner and nine friends (air + hotel). Besides the TV, second place also gets a $500 gift card to Quizno’s.Deadline: Oct. 1, 2008. Enter HERE.
Write a clever haiku, win a Samsung Instinct from CrunchGear. It’s a weekly contest with the next one taking entries until noon on Tuesday, July 22. This week’s haiku should focus on sight and be tweeted to UseYourInstinct. (A haiku, by the way, is a short 3-line poem, consisting of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables. More details and rules HERE.
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Past iPhone posts:
- 6 ways to win a free iPhone
- iPhone snafu means $8.25 worth of MobileMe for some
- 5 ways to save money on the new iPhone
- Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks — with restrictions
- Freebies for Mac and iPhone fans
- Apple iPhone stock limited after first week
- Did AT&T yank free Wi-Fi for iPhone users?
July 21st, 2008 at 9:10 am
Very surprised that none of these lists carry two of the best free apps- I use them every day: Jott- a voice dictation/transcription/email service, and the Associated Press Mobile service. With Jott and my hands-free headset, I can dictate emails to anyone while driving. Depending on the setting you set in the contacts files, the email can go out as a text, instead, OR both. The email has a link to the actual voice message– or as my girlfriend noted: “Gee I don’t even have to READ my email anymore!” You can dictate notes to yourself, which can then be emailed or stored as “notes” on your iPhone. Transcription accuracy is well over 95%.
AP is an up-to-the-minute newswire service that can be set for national or local news or specific categories (e.g. Sports). You can get rid of a newspaper subscription with this service AND be on top of the latest news.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:21 am
Jott is a good service beyond the iPhone. Some bloggers here have been testing it out. And iGirl did mention she liked AP’s new service. (Maybe iGirl will soon offer up her own list of favorites? Hint, hint…) Thanks for pointing them out Melissa. — Gadgetress
August 28th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
8 28 08: Since recommending it so highly, I feel obligated to add that Jott (currently free) will turn to a paid subscription service as of September 8. While I wouldn’t mind paying a one-time Apps Store fee, a monthly subscription of $8.99 for the same services I now use is waaaay too much. Effective today, I have switched to Dial2Go. I read about it on another blog, have tried it several times, and it works well. Plus, it’s free. Same services at Jott, wiht none of the “early” bugs. In some ways, it’s actually easier to use than Jott. Don’t need to download it thru the Apps store at all- just go to http://www.dial2go.com, register (your name, email and phone number– that’s it) and you can start using it. You set up your contacts just like with Jott and it actually works thru several other networking istes, as well.
Currently, it’s free- we’ll see how long that last.
Big mistake, Jott– you’re about to lose alot of business.