Another week, another gazillion articles, blog posts, etc. about the iPhone. Here are some of the interesting iPhone-related articles that I ran across this week that I want to highlight in case they might interest you:
- Nicole Black lists some of her favorite iPhone apps that she uses in the practice of law in her post Practicing Law: There's an iPhone App for that.
- David Pogue of the New York Times offers his top 10 tips for the iPhone 3GS, an excerpt from his updated version of iPhone: The Missing Manual.
- Macworld reviews PDF Reader Pro for iPhone, an app that lets you store and view PDF files. I understand the usefulness of storing PDF files on an iPhone, something that I can already do with many other apps such as Quickoffice, Documents to Go and Apple's new MobileMe iDisk app. It is unclear to me from this review whether this app offers any advanced features for viewing PDF files.
- Macworld also reviews Twitterena, a new Twitter client for the iPhone. Looks nice, but I think I'll still stick with Twitterific (which I briefly discussed here).
- Yesterday's TechnoLawyer newsletter linked to an interesting series of articles by analyst Henry Blodget about his switch from the Blackberry to the iPhone. There are still things he misses from the Blackberry, such as some e-mail features, but the iPhone is growing on him every day and he feels that the iPhone's other advantages outweigh the Blackberry's e-mail advantages. And he hasn't even started downloading apps yet, one of the best features of the iPhone. The four articles are: Decision Time: Should I Stick With BlackBerry or Switch to iPhone?; How I Ended My Affair With BlackBerry and Eloped With the iPhone; The Truth About the iPhone; and The Truth About the iPhone, Week 2.
- iLounge reviews Sygic Mobile Maps US, a a $60 GPS navigation app for the iPhone. They previously reviewed Navigon MobileNavigator, a similar app that costs $70 to $100. I might decide to get one of these apps one day, but because they are expensive, I'm waiting for a couple more companies to release other versions first so that I can see which one is the best before investing that much money.
- Daniel Eran Dilger has an interesting article on multitasking on the iPhone (and the Pre) on his RoughlyDrafted website. He points out, for example, that while the Pre gets a lot of press for being able to run multiple apps at once, few people point out that because of the limitations of the Sprint (and Verizon) network, you cannot use data and the phone at the same time. I frequently find myself talking on my iPhone while at the same time I am looking up an e-mail, finding something on the Internet, search Google maps, etc., so this limitation must be very frustrating for Pre owners.
- Like many others, I often find myself saying that I wish they would just add this one feature to an iPhone app, as if that is easy to do. This post by Brent Simmons, developer of my favorite iPhone newsreader NetNewsWire, explains why what seems like a simple addition for a software developer is really not. (Thanks to Daring Fireball for the link.)
- This isn't directly related to the iPhone, but Jason Calacanis makes an interesting argument that the proposed search agreement between Yahoo and Microsoft makes no sense for Yahoo.
- And finally, Art of the iPhone has a collection of some of the funniest iPhone videos ever. Several of these are rather cute.
