App me, baby, I'm an iPhone guy now

Shouldn't a Crunchy Con be pining for the days of Morse code, or perhaps carrier pigeon? ;^) I kid. (I kid out of jealousy, of course.)

Good call on the iPhones. I don't have one yet, but will. I try not run apps on my hardware. I am web 2.0 guy. If I were going to put an app I would put Universalis on it. That is the liturgy of the hours. Poof you have your daily office right there.

http://www.universalis.com/-700/n-iphone.htm

Stanza. And run 'calibre' on your desktop, and, tada, have whatever ebook or PDF or text file on your iPhone in easy-to-read format.

Google Earth. Just because.

I'll second Shazam, too. It is, frankly, awesome to be able to go 'Hey, what song was that?' while watching TV, pull out my phone, back up the video, and have it identified. Jason H said you had to put it up the speaker, but in actuality it will even identify music played over loudspeakers at the grocery store, or in TV shows while people are talking during it...it seems background noise tolerant. (Acoustic fingerprinting has come a long way in the last decade.)

last.fm if you use scrobbler. Pandora if you use that. If you use XM radio, you can get that also.

Trapster if you're feeling like a rebel.

AP Mobile, meanwhile, is good for staying up to date.

Don't forget Skype, which will allow you to make voice calls from your phone! (Hmmm. Wait, you can do that already.)

Oh, and a fun one is 'Bargain Bin', which lets you find apps that have recently lowered their prices, and even put alerts on apps you want to buy.

As for commercial apps, I use NetNewsWire which sync RSS feeds with Google Reader. Other readers do that too,but I like NetNewsWire because I can individually select which feeds are on my phone.

Also I bought Tetris. Of course. Sadly does not come with Tetris music, but will play phone music, so now I need to find a twenty minute loop of 'Music A' to play during it.

If you jailbreak your phone (And everyone should.) get Cycorder for recording video and xGPS to turn your phone into a GPS. And the thingy that gives you five columns instead of four.

Epicurious(love the sensible features) and BigOven. Pandora is cool, too.

My three indispensable apps:

CNN's news app is the one news app to rule them all. Brings up local news, weather and traffic using the phone's GPS. Wish the BBC had

Dictionary is a must-have for any word nerd.

Pandora, for the great music mixes.

I second the Stanza/ Kindle/ B&N reader + calibre.

I like my boggle and old school galaga games too.

First of all, get iPieta. Incredible resource---not just the Bible (in English and Latin) but an ENORMOUS collection of devotions, liturgy texts, and spiritual and theological classics. Many of them are now linked to audio which you can listen to.

They recently added the Summa (in English and Latin). It's a marvel.

iTranslate for translation (many languages!)

Good Food for finding healthy food choices near wherever you happen to be (it uses the GPS function to pinpoint your location and guide you to healthy menu items in nearby restaurants).

AppBox Pro for a host of extremely useful applications (flashlight, currency converter, tip calculator, loan calculator, detailed battery life meter, ruler, etc.)

Accuweather for an extremely handy and user-friendly weather choice (you can load "favorite" cities which are always displayed, showing current weather, hourly, daily and weekly forecasts, live radar, etc.)

Lose It! has helped me lose 12 pounds thus far---it calculates a calorie budget for you based on your target weight, and it has a nutrition database allowing you to punch in your daily diet and exercise. It has graphs and other stuff charting your progress---wonderful!

iFitness is an amazing resource if you are going to the gym---it has instructions and even videos showing different weight exercises, and you can easily log in all of your lifting and aerobic data and chart your progress and organize your workouts.

RedLaser is a really cool app that turns your iPhone into a barcode scanner! Turn it on a book or something else at the store, and it loads the info and compares prices for it from various online sites.

FlightTrack for keeping track of flights. Very useful when travelling.

Pano is a great app that allows you to easily create panoramas with your iPhone camera, digitally stitching several photos together to form one whole.

The Google Earth app is a nice companion to the Google Maps app. A lot of fun to play with too.

Park Maps is a nice resource allowing you to download maps to various national parks and monuments. Very useful if you are in a park outside cell phone range (like I was in Yosemite last month).

Fandango app makes checking for flicks very easy.

Alarm Clock turns your iPhone into a very nice alarm clock with lots of features.

There are lots of others, but I don't want to overwhelm you.

Hah, I ended up with an iphone the same way MargaretE did. In fact, I was anti-mobile for years and years, and happily so. But on my birthday my husband presented me with one. I was furious (too expensive! And I misplace things all the time, don't need another gadget to keep track of! And I still don't know the price, nor do I even want to!), but it did win me over with it's versatility, and he did need to get one for work.

I still hate being a cell phone person, but the iphone at least has so many other uses that I'm finally okay with having it. :)

I'm a reverse snob, I make do with my Moleskine/hipster pda (thanks, Merlin Mann of 43folders.com), basically 8-10 recipe cards bulldog clipped inside a pocketsized moleskine, with some tape reinforcing, and my 2004 vintage, indestructible, bottom of the line Nokia. The Moleskin has all my notes, the cards my contacts, current projects, to do lists, etc. I find that notes in electronic form get buried under layers of virtual junk -- whereas physical notes are, in the words of the song -- "Always Something There to Remind Me".

I guess its pretty cool that you can have your machine recognize and identify a song -- certainly a wonderful technical achievement. But seriously, just another bit of info to clutter the cranium, as is so much of today's gadgetry/Web 2.0 mucky-muck.

Get the Wendell Berry app. It makes your iPhone self-destruct.

First time poster, but one really shouldn't forget Ninjawords, by far the best dictionary for the iphone (useful for crosswords and scrabble cheaters)

@ James Card -- apparently we have the exact same taste in apps, as you listed every one that I use. ipieta is marvelous.

I regularly check http://www.theiphoneblog.com/ which has a weekly feature on cool new apps.

In addition to Lose It! (I've lost 15 pounds with that one), you may be interested in Daily Burn and Foodscanner. Foodscanner allows you to track nutritional data by scanning the barcodes on the food labels.

Pic2Shop and RedLaser also allow you to scan barcodes and comparison shop across the web. See a book you like? Scan the barcode and see if you find it cheaper on the web.

I use What's On to get my tv listings and track the times of my favorite shows.

Convertbot allows you to convert almost any kind of measurement -- yards to miles, currencies, etc.

Whole Foods has a nice recipes app

And for fun I've been learning to tie different knots using Knot Guide.

Photogene for editing all of the pictures you take with your phone.

Yelp and Zagat to Go for finding good food.

NY Times (self explanatory)

Public Radio (streaming links to every NPR station)

NPR Accict (links to every podcast of past shows)

Sirius XM (live streaming if you're a subscriber)

Accuweather

I've got this really great app, one I swear by.

It's called NoIPhone;

It actually allows for Human thought and reason to take place on a frequent basis.

It allows me to be a part of the world around me, whenever I want (!); books, games, my wife and family.

It encourages Regular Actual Interaction with Other Human Beings ! (How's that for a cutting-edge concept, especially in these recessionary times ?)

And you've got to love the price: Absolutely FREE !

And even better still, every single Human being comes with NoIPhone "PRE-INSTALLED" ! No special (and expensive) new hardware needed, just your original senses and a functional voice.

NoIPhone: I've already got it ! And I think it ROCKS !

Your servant,

Lord Karth

Thanks for saying what needed to be said. Rod, I thought you'd at least have asked yourself, WWWBD?

Write a letter?

I thought that iphones were so overrated, but I got one for my birthday and LOVE IT! I only have a few apps thus far, but you'll love "iMissel." It is a lectionary with scripture readings, saints' days, and the like. I'm a Lutheran, but didn't see any Lutheran missel apps. Anyhow, it's very cool.

Also, I have epicurious, which is a FREE recipe database as well as UrbanSpoon with is also FREE. It helps you find restaurants in cities.

There is one that helps you track miles for running that I want to get, but it's $10 so I'm waiting for it to go on sale.

HAVE FUN!

I have an iPhone (with many of the apps already mentioned). But it might have been wise to have held on to your Verizon account until you tested the ATT network. I have been all over the country and I have yet to be anywhere that the ATT network isn't surpassed by the Verizon network in performance. Most striking example: Artist's Point at the end of Route 542 in Washington on the edge of the Mt. Baker National Wilderness. At the parking lot, no ATT service --- five miles further into the wilderness, still one bar with Verizon. The iPhone's great for apps and internet and e-mail access when you need it. For talking on the phone, stick with Verizon. Speaking of wilderness hikes, try the Trails app.

As a family man, Rod, you might be interested in having FamilyVault from IconApps on your iPhone. It keeps critical stuff like blood types, driver's license, passport, and Social Security numbers locked up, but accessible to you at a moment's notice.

In my opinion Google Voice search is cool for you