Useful Applications for Smartphone? 80
merlinbasenji asks: "I've recently purchased an Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone for Cingular, and I'm looking for suggestions for good applications like: calendars, browsers, games, email client, etc. Anyone have a favorite, or had a bad experience with specific applications?"
Apps on my treo... (Score:3, Interesting)
tcpmp - plays movies
ptunes - mp3s and such
audible.com's player for ebooks
plucker for free ebooks
eatwatch so I don't swell up
chatter - best email client
tomtom navigator - don't leave home without the gps fob...
verichat for chatting
fileprog - a better file browser
an unzip utility so I can download from the web
my subway/train schedule
card export - turns the phone into a usb mass-storage device
LJP - a nintendo emulator (also gameboy and sega and tgfx etc)
niggle - a free scrabble emulator
I guess that's it.
A scripting language, Hecl (Score:3, Interesting)
The Hecl Programming Language: http://www.hecl.org/ [hecl.org]
It's an open source scripting language that's compact enough to run on cell phones. If you're the adventurous/hacker type, it's still in the early stages of development, but is far along enough to write real apps, such as this shopping list system:
http://www.dedasys.com/shopping_list/ [dedasys.com]
It's a great time to get involved in the project because it's in its early stages, and there is a lot of fun to be had!