iPhone App Review

Touchgrove brought back a flood of memories with LED Football, which was inspired by the classic Mattel Football handheld game. This sequel follows in the footsteps of Mattel Football 2, adding passing capabilities.

 
Underwater The Game is published by GameEra Inc but apparently developed by a Russian team.  Mikhail Solovyev is the named seller in the app store but there aren’t any credits in the app itself and the only website linked from iTunes is game-era.com which doesn’t (as of this review) have a listing for it at all.
 
The gameplay combines elements [...]

Put Oakley’s Surf Report on your iPhone or iPod touch, and you’ll always know what the surf conditions are no matter where you happen to be.

 
 
Ambigram.  Noun.  A design that may be read as the same word or phrase – or sometimes as two different words or phrases – oriented in two different ways.  That is, more or less, the definition of an ambigram, according to Webster’s Dictionary.
I like ambigrams, always have.  I have an ambigram as a tattoo.  So [...]

Babelingo is an application filled to the brim with phrases useful while traveling in other countries, or if you need help speaking English phrases. The application really is overflowing with phrases and translations, and one needs only choose which language to start with and which language to end with.

Babelingo is an expansive application, truly. At first I was under the impression that it only did Spanish-to-English translations (that is the default setting), but I soon discovered that there are eleven different languages to switch between.

Upon choosing your beginning and ending languages, Babelingo does the rest by supplying basic and complex phrases to just about any conversational topic. Tap-through screens are easy to navigate and the design is really quite good.

One thing I really wish this application included was the ability to input text yourself.

Pros: Expansive, intuitive

Cons: Lack of text input

Bottom Line: Babelingo is a sprawling travel-phrase application with multiple languages and plenty of phrases. If you are traveling and need something for better understanding the language, Babelingo is a great source.

Duck Hunt, an iPhone game that mirrored a Nintendo game, is no longer available, allegedly due to copyright concerns.

Rumor has it that a “premium” section for $20 games will soon appear at the App Store. Peter Cohen doesn’t buy it.