// April 13th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // iPhone
My iPhone recently had to go back to Vodacom for an issue with the vibrate button. The thing broke off after only 2 months out the box. Something that’s completely unacceptable. Unfortunately the only thing to do was to book it in at Vodaworld, figuring it will be resolved fairly quickly.
In the initial three days I received a few messages informing me of the progress of the job, until it had to be sent back to the supplier. Around two-and-a-half weeks of silence ensued before I was finally notified that it was ready for collection. As expected (and welcomed), they exchanged the phone with a new unit.
One thing I must commend Apple on is how well the restore function works. Surprisingly enough it restored every setting, archived sms and application back to the last known state. Pretty amazing, considering I’ve never been able to do so with my Windows Mobile phones.
Funny thing about restoring your phone is that you notice how much nonsense you had on there in the first place. I took the opportunity to do some housekeeping and removed some unwanted / unused applications.
Below is a list of some of the more oft used (and mostly free) applications still on my phone.
Photography
- Flickit – Flickr uploader
- PanoLab – Capture panoramic images
Productivity
- Discover – Mobile file manager
- Road Trip – Best travel logbook application by far
Social Networking
- Brightkite – Location based networking
- Facebook – What? Never heard of Facebook? Welcome to earth.
- Fring – Instant messaging across multiple services
- LinkedIn – Professional networking
- Skype – Free calls and instant messages
- Twitterfon – Twitter client
- Twitterrific – Twitter client
Unfortunately some of the better apps in the iTunes App Store are still not available to South Africans, so we’ll have to make do for now. But here’s the question, are there other apps out there that I should have on my phone? What do you have on yours?
