Developer Kelvin Wu is rediscovering the lost art of web apps on the iPhone. His two efforts, i-Movies and i-Roadmate, are some of the best local web apps to date. The apps are useful and rich in information and their interface makes them closely resemble native iPhone apps. Kelvin is obviously a talented developer so why is he mucking around with web apps rather than real ones? Well, mainly because, horror of horrors, he's a Blackberry user.
"Honestly speaking, I rarely use iPhone, I am a hardcore Blackberry fan-:)", he says.
It is because of his wife Elaine that Kelvin started developing for the iPhone. She has an iPhone and it was she who asked him to develop i-Movies for her. The other app, i-Roadmate, came out from a suggestion from a Hardwarezone forum.
Now that he has become better acquainted with the iPhone, he's come to appreciate it a little. "I have to say Apple's Mobile Safari is very cool,' he admits.
Singaporeans will find both these apps very useful. i-Roadmate is a great companion for drivers. It gives you traffic news and ERP and car park rates. To find i-Roadmate, launch Safari on your iPhone, and go to http://i.sh2sg.com/roadmate.html. i-Movies, as the name implies, gives you the screening times of all movies showing in Singapore. To find i-Movies, go to http://i.sh2sg.com/movie.html.
Note: These are web apps, which means that you use Safari to access the data.
2 comments:
There's also CinePura, http://poundbang.in/cinepura/ which has been around almost since iPhone 2G was out.
Agreed. CinePura is pretty good too.
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