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I bought my iPhone at least 6 months ago. Having previously used a Treo I must say I had pretty high expectations, and was initially disappointed in its capability, largely because it didn’t address my business needs (wireless email & calender sync with Outlook). The reality is that Apple intends to address the “business use” shortcomings in the impending Version 2 release of the OS, slated for June/July 08.

Don’t get my wrong, as a media tool with a phone, its cool. Definitely the most brilliantly integrated platform available and the UI is so polished. But hey this post isn’t about critiquing the iPhone, its about telling you why it continues to amaze me

My iPhone and I have a love hate relationship, I get bored with it and it sits on the desk all day and rings, I answer then hang up. Then every 2 months or so I read about some app on the internet, install it and I cant keep the iPhone out of my hands.

The latest of these is Twinkle, a twitter’ing app. A couple of the coolest things twinkle does are:

• Lets you embed a quick photo taken by the iPhone into your post
• Lets you look at the location (proximity) of people to you by triangulating your position from cell tower information against (I assume) Google maps

So how does this translate into coolness?, I hear you ask. Ill demonstrate with the use case of me in traffic today..

Bored sitting in Sydney traffic i posted on twitter “loving Sydney traffic”, took a quick photo of stacks of cars lined up for miles and hit send. Now of course no one really cares about my predicament, but imagine if there was an accident and others could avoid it based on seeing the extent of it and noting my location. Or imagine you are lost in the bush, perhaps you could take a photo of a landmark and people could use that and the cell tower info to find you.

You can tweak the global posts so you only see posts within x miles from you and you can change to a personal messages v’s global messages view easily.

Its sweet little thing and has reunited me with my beloved iPhone..for now.

Later

Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPhone native apps, iPhone Twitter app, iPhone Twitter program, native iPhone Twitter client, Twinkle, Twitter

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