This Valentine’s Day I received the most romantic gift a tech geek Mom like myself could imagine…. an iPhone! That’s right people, my husband is the BEST Husband E.V.E.R.! You may be thinking your husbands are the best ever, but I assure you, mine is!
I got the go ahead to get the iPhone on Friday and headed straight to Best Buy that evening. (Quick shout out to my sales rep, Phil Colston who ROCKED) If you aren’t aware, Best Buy sells refreshed (gently used – less than 30 days old) iPhones for a fraction of the cost of a new iPhone. I went with the 8G, 3G.
As soon as I got home I started playing around and of course- was to go online to research applications. I found, and added, tons of cool tools – all for FREE – to make my iPhone my own. In addition to adding apps for me, I even found lots of great applications for my kids too.
To celebrate my new iPhone I thought I’d share my favorite iPhone applications for the Mom on the go. A few Top 10 iphone application lists, if you will.
I’ve only had my iPhone for two days, so if you have more you’d recommend, PLEASE leave them in the comments. I am particularly interested in FREE applications.
Top 10 Free iPhone Applications For MOMs:
1. TwitterFon - Like having Twhirl on your phone!
2. Facebook – Let’s you send Status Updates, check inbox, comment on Walls and more. Best of all it tells you when you have a new comment on your wall!
3. WordPress - You can actually write and publish blog posts from your iPhone.
4. Fring - Let’s you IM, Skype and more from your phone.
5. Flixster – Check local movie listings, DVD release schedules and watch movie trailers.
6. Pandora - That’s right – Pandora is available for your iPhone. NOTE: I feel like Pandora has ESP – it seems to always pick songs I like!
7. Shazam - Just hold your phone up to a speaker and this app can tell you the name and artist!
8. TMZ – Stay connected to celebrity gossip with news feeds, photos and video.
9. Urban Spoon – Find local restaurants, read reviews, and more. NOTE: Hey Cincy- Urban Spoon has reviews by Wine Me, Dine Me Cincinnati too!
10. EverNote - Let’s you save notes via photo, text or voice recording. Great way to not forget things – like I always do!
Top 10 Free iPhone Applications For KIDS:
1. TicTacTouch – Let’s kids play Tic Tac Toe on your phone
2. Dress Chica – My 3yr old’s favorite – Let’s kids play dress up with the cute chicken from Sprouts.
3. Whack’em all – Like Whack-a-mole, this game had my boys laughing so hard they had tears in their eyes.
4. Touch4 - Just like Connect Four.
5. *Doodle Kids – Kids drag their fingers on screen and various shapes are displayed.
6. *Scribble - Let’s kids draw on your iPhone with various colors, etc.
7. Shape Spot – Much like the game concentration, kids have to try and get the shapes in the right spot before the timer expires.
8. Memory Puzzle Game – Classic game of matcher, matcher.
9. Peekaboo Barn – Toddlers have to guess which animal is behind the barn doors.
10. Jumbalo Zoo – Creative game that let’s kids build animals out of various animal parts.
*Thanks to my gal PsychMamma for the reccos!
If you are a tech-geek Mom like me or just a tech geek or just a Mom, I HIGHLY recommend getting an iPhone. You just won’t believe all the things it can do (oh yeah, it’s a phone too).
UPDATE: For links to more great iPhone apps, check out my friend Jamie’s post on Blonde Mom Blog.