3 Game Changing Apps for iPhone
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Loading ...These three Apps are either “very” new or “”somewhat” new, but they are a must have for any iPhone carrying human.
These three apps are game changers for the iPhone, and while they have some competion from similar apps on the iPhone it is in this reviewers opinion that these are the cream of the crop in their field.
So, drum roll please. The three apps are:
N-Drive
Dragon Dictation &
Ustream Broadcaster
N-Drive
The fastest GPS app in the west. It loads lightning quick on the iPhone, offers accurate routing, and the price is right.
NDrive isn’t as polished as the others but it is a very good app. I know a lot of people with iPhones that either through personal budget or being frugal like me can’t fathom spending $79.99 to $99.99 for an app for their iPhone. Well for those of us in those categories, NDrive is a great app for turn by turn navigation. It is a well designed app and does a very good job of getting you from point A to point B and contains all your major POIs as well as any of the others.
Let’s face it, sometimes the iPhone can be a pain to type on. Short messages are OK but if you have a long message it can be a real pain to type all that out on a small screen. Enter Dragon Dictation, this app is very accurate, requires no training like the older dictation software and will have you sending out novel length emails as fast as you can talk. And, the best part is that it is “FREE”.
To dictate on the iPhone you just launch the app, press the record button, and start talking. Your dictation can be a brief sentence, or a much longer treatise. Once the text has been created from your speech, it’s possible to email it, send it as a text message, or put the result in your clipboard. After recording your message, you can edit the resulting text before you send it off for others to read.
It’s pretty slick! When you record your message, it is quickly transmitted to Nuance servers where a speech recognition algorithm is run against your data. The resulting text is returned to your iPhone very quickly; my informal benchmarks showed that it took about a second for text to be processed on a Wi-Fi network, and less than 5 seconds over 3G. You’ll need a data connection for the app to work, but having this speech-to-text capability is going to be very important to a lot of people, who will find all sorts of uses for it.
I tested the app for about a week and found the accuracy to be very good. Accuracy diminishes if you are in a very noisy environment, as I found when I tried some dictation while being driven down the interstate. There were a few errors, but they were easy to correct. To add punctuation to your text, you can say ‘period’, ‘question mark’, or ‘new paragraph,’ and Dragon Dictation adds the appropriate punctuation.
Imagine the power of a mobile TV broadcasting station in your pocket. That is the power of Ustream. Every person with a 3g/wifi connection can broadcast live video from their iPhone to millions on the web. It is powerful tech that will be used for good and evil, but it is none the less “very powerful”.
Are the events of your life too important to keep off the Internet? Good news, iPhone users, now you can stream to your heart’s content–or at least until your battery dies or AT&T kills your connection. Ustream’s Live Broadcaster app has made it past the approval process, making it the second livestreaming app for the Apple iPhone, after Knocking.
The app lets users stream live content and sent out a tweet automatically when it goes live. Videos can also be shared via Facebook and YouTube, and a chatting feature is built in. I said it before with the launch of Knocking, and I’ll say it again–there’s no way AT&T is excited about this feature.
Check these apps out and see if they are true game changers for you.
