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Our Favorite Mobile Apps
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What do mobile app developers and consultants do for fun? Play with their high tech toys, of course.
Whether you have an iPhone, iPad or Android (or are hoping that Santa brings you one this week) check out a few of the Phase 2
team’s favorite mobile applications.
App: ESPN Sports Center
Who’s using it: Mark Towler
Why: According to Mark, “This app lets me pick which teams in which leagues I want to follow (Go ASU Mountaineers!) Plus, it can send scoring updates on specific teams so I don’t have to keep checking my phone to see how bad my Dallas Cowboys are doing when I’m not watching them.”
App: T-Pain Auto Tune
Who’s using it: Brett Taylor
Why: Brett says this app will auto tune your voice to make you sound like a karaoke superstar. “To date this has given me the most fun of any app,” said Brett. “Plug it into your home theater system for a great night of family fun.”
App: WeatherBug
Who’s using it: Heath Clinton
Why: Heath says he uses WeatherBug before making workout plans or making outside plans with the kids. “I can see what’s going on with the weather and especially the wind with a high degree of accuracy,” commented Heath.
App: Twitter
Who’s using it: Shane Kempton
Why: Shane says he likes this app because it’s well designed and does a lot of things right in terms of the user’s experience – from the now ubiquitous “pull down to refresh” user interface, which its designers invented, to the very natural navigation.
App: Twitter
Shane adds, “The other reason is because of how useful it is to me. Being able to tap into the thoughts of my chosen community of people at anytime and anywhere would have seemed like either science fiction or magic just 15 years ago. Yet, that’s exactly what I’m able to do with the app.
To put it mildly, that’s amazing! So for this week at least, that’s Twitter’s app is top of my list, but there are some contenders hot on its heels.”
App: GunsNGlory
Who’s using it: Colbey Chittenden
Why: According to Colbey, GunsNGlory is a tower defense game with a twist The creeps are on a set path for the most part but your towers are moveable so not only picking the right tower is important, you also have to pick the proper position and occasionally move them.
Colbey says, “It’s my current favorite app because I am a sucker for TD (tower defense) games, and think that Steve Jobs must be as well. Why else would he have made the iPad in the first place? GunsNGlory is a unique TD game because of how you can manipulate the “towers” and that fact makes me like it a little more. If only it had some sort of space theme, it would be perfect.”
App: GunsNGlory
App: Swype for Android
Who’s using it: Jeremy Kuhlman
Why: Swype is a keyboard replacement app for the android that allows words to be inputted by “Swyping” them out and not having to lift your finger off the screen for each key press.
According to Jeremy, “Swype would be one of my favorite apps because it gives users the ability to type words on their phone using only one hand and not requiring someone with larger hands (like myself) to try and hold such a small device and actually type on it. Using the “Swyping” technique also helps prevent fat-fingering keys when typing as you never have lift your finger off the screen and as a result increase how fast you can type words. One of the newer features of the Swype keyboard that has also impressed me considerably would be the voice to text functionality which is amazing quite accurate.”
App: Swype for Android
App: Ebay
Who’s using it: Steve Crosthwait
Why: According to Steve, “This app allows me to manage every aspect of buying and selling. I can easily bid and purchase nearly any product I want. Save it to a watch list, search other products and I can sell a product all from one device.”
App: Instapaper
Who’s using it: Andy Morris
Why: This app let’s you quickly and easily save links to read later, across different devices. According to Andy, “It’s super easy to save links for later on my laptop, and then when I find myself with a few free minutes I can read them on my iPhone. Instapaper formats the content as well to make it nice and easy to read.”
