Josh Moody

If you’re an iPhone user, you’ve probably already read that the iPhone 2.0 software is coming in early July - later than the original June estimation. You probably also know the 2.0 software will have support for built-in applications. While I certainly welcome this new functionality, I’ve been getting along quite well with the various iPhone/mobile web apps that are out there.

Here are some web apps that have made my iPhone experience more pleasant.

IMDb Mobile
http://nolanbrown.org/imdb/#_home

Not officially sanctioned by IMDb, this little web app provides a nice mobile lookup tool

NewsGator Mobile
http://m.newsgator.com/

I live between the worlds of Mac and PC. Thanks to NewsGator, I can sync my RSS subscriptions between NetNewsWire (Mac), and FeedDemon (Windows). I recently found NewsGator has an iPhone version of their RSS reader as well, http://m.newsgator.com/.

Twitter Mobile
http://m.twitter.com

While not strictly an iPhone web app, this light-weight interface does work well on iPhone.

Moviefone
http://iphone.movies.aol.com

Features iPhone-specific interface for finding show times for your favorite movies.

Weather Underground
http://i.wund.com

Not a particularly attractive interface, but it gets the job done with much more detail than you get from the built-in iPhone weather app.

Google
http://www.google.com/m

If you visit the Google home page in mobile Safari, you get the mobile version of Google by default. This interface is quite nice, and is much easier to navigate than the full version on a small screen. I am, however, quite disappointed that using mobile Safari’s search box takes you to the full Google instead of the mobile version. What gives, Google? You are already using browser detection to determine I’m on a mobile device. Why not implement this same functionality when searching from the tool bar?