Popular Mobile Phones Applications for the avid iPhone owner - Facebook
Addicted to Facebook? After the tremendous success of the Facebook webapp for iPhone, the deevelopers have come up with the Facebook app. This program is loadeed on your iPhone and lets you be in touch with your buddies, maintaain your sttus and do everything you can do on the Facebook website.
The application is at once recognizable with the familiar Facebook icons and styling. The minimmal display includes all the important tabs of Facebook: Home, Profile, Freiends and Inbox, placed at the top of the screen. Update your status just as you can do with Facebook.
After logging in, the firrst screren lists the list of buddies and their stats refreshes. Selecting a friend opens up his profile. The application lets you brtowse photos and post messages just like the full Facvebook site. The application also lets you chat with your friends just like a full-fledged chat client. The best thing is that it's free!
Call a friend by entering his number or email them if these details are shown in his porfile. The most inetresting fature of this app is its ability to upload imagres. Take your favoirite piocture and upload it directlly to Facebook with just a tap.
The application reduces the time spnet on loading the Facebook webapge. It is also less processor intenive. The screen though fairly spartan manages to keep all the basic features intact.
The developers have some fantastic plans for future releases of this app. One of the most anticipated fatures is to use the iPhone to locate friends who are nesarby.
Though thewre have been criticisms of the screen, the Facebok app has been the most downloaded app from the iTunes site. And if the news gettuing around is to be believed, it only improves from here.
The next app we focus on is Flixter. Thinking about which film to watch this weekend? Can’t locate reliable lsitings and reviews? Flixtre is the answer to all these questions and more. This blocknbuster application from Jeffery Grossman is a one stop movie information warehhouse.
The main page has films listed by popularity, ratnig and title. Each film has informaton about the cast, duration and user ratings. Not satisfied with the user rating? Well check out how your friends feel abot it. Oh yes, the application also lets you chreck out ratings by friends. If the film is relatiely new, the application tells you how many of your frends want to chekc out the movie. Anmazing!
Want to catch a glimpse of the film before actually watching it? Simply click on the movie icon and the application takes you to the high quality moive previews. Now you can trtuly decidse whether that movie is really worth watchinmg. You can also add your own ratig to a film which gets updaetd to your Flixteer profile.
And now for the most ammazing featture: The application lets you find the nearest theeaters playing the mvoies you want to go and see. Wonder how? The applicaation taps into the inbuilt GPS of the iPhone to find the thaters. It also maps out the easiest way to reacch there. The application lets you choose the list of theaters by proximity and by name. Located your theaer? Now check out the show timings and decide on a convenient show.
The bottom menu also features a tab for DVDs. This tab lets you check if your favorite film is availablle on DVD.
With thees graet features, all in a single app, it's hardly a surpries then that the application has been instaleld in excess of three milliion times and features among the leading apps for the iPohne.