iPhone App Review

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Near as I can tell, there are two main reasons that Fishing Frenzy has earned a crappy 2-star rating in the iTunes App Store:

Instructions on how to play are nearly non-existent and it seems a lot of people can’t figure out how to play it
The game has only 12 levels, so the fun is pretty [...]

Top-Tens, a reference app that lets users follow lists of their interests and hobbies, has added a list of top rumored features for the next iPhone.

PocketGuitar, which mimics a guitar fretboard and provided various types of guitar sounds, takes the metaphor a little too literally. Because of the size of the iPhone’s screen, you can only access a few frets at a time, and you can’t slide up and down the fretboard gracefully. Guitar players will find this app frustrating.

This app, aimed at iPod touch users or iPhone owners who don’t want to use the phone’s built-in SMS app, handles Internet-based texting more elegantly than rival offerings.

Apple’s partner in Indonesia, Telkomsel, has dropped the price of the iPhone 3G for the second time in the past two months.

Aoyama Gakuin University plans to distribute the iPhone 3G to students in order to track class attendance.

The setting’s a familiar one. World War II, in which you fly an American P-51 Mustang against all manner of bad guys: motorcycles (ha, easy to despatch), tanks (childs’ play), fighters (sitting ducks), trains (starting to get harder to destroy!), ships (ditto) and then super-sized planes and other end-of level ‘bosses’, requiring multiple hits to [...]

One of those rare apps that uses the iPhone platform in a creative, compelling way, Leaf Trombone also happens to be insanely addictive once you feel the lure of competing against others on the World Stage.

(Credit: CNET)

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Originally posted at The Download Blog