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We want to hear what are the best apps for the iPhone (both 2.0 and 3.0 firmware!)

Post your app list and give a little description of what it does and why you feel it is the best app!

So far, these are some of the iPhone Apps people on Neowin use:

Facebook

Shazam

BeejiveIM

Twitter (Variety of Apps)

Wikipanion

Navigon GPS

Pandora

Games:

Super Monkey Ball

Peggle

Flight Control

More to come...

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BeejiveIM - Best IM app out there, now with push notification support!

Convertbot - Best convertion app, and one of the best looking app out there!

Lose it! - Best calorie count app, great if you're trying to lose some pounds!

FlghtControl - Superb game, great for some casual game!

Facebook

WunderRadio - Has most radio stations from around the world, great!.

National Rail - See Departures/Arrivals/Delays at any UK station. Shows where trains are. Journey planner. Good app, just expensive.

Sky News

TwitterFon - Best twitter app Ive used so far.

Backgrounder - Allows you to multi-task :)

Navigon GPS - Not too bad as a Sat Nav, really good actually, although tomtom is going to be better.

Shazam - Its poor compared to Sony Ericcsons TrackID in my opinion.

Edited by acnpt

Favorite Apps:

WunderRadio: Just a great radio app for web streams, weather etc

Tweetdeck: Love the columns and the over all interface and syncing with my desktop

Facebook: Yup

MLB: Seriously I can watch baseball games live on my phone for the entire season for a 1 time charge

DirecTV: Controlling my dvr

Favorite Games:

Flight Control: who knew it would be this much fun landing stuff

Knights Onrush: great graphics pretty damn funny and gets challenging

Fieldrunners: great tower defense

Parachute Panic: hilarious

Skype, IM+, Facebook

Air Sharing - iPhone becomes a Wifi storage device.

Wunder Radio

Remote Desktop/VNC

9-Toolbox - lots of little apps, free.

Games:

Blimp

F.A.S.T. (on sale)

Flashback

Warpack Grunts (Cannon Fodder basically)

Must.Eat.Birds (bonkers but good)

Pinball Dreams

Real Racing

Sway

Tiger Woods

Toki Tori

Wild West Guns

Wolfenstein

Apps

Remote - control itunes on your pc/mac

Navigon - GPS

Twittelator - My fav twitter client, loads of options

BeeJive - IM application, connects really fast and looks great

Google Mobile App - basically a front end to all service by Google, very handy

Last.fm - for radio playlists, checking out bands etc

eBay - watch your auctions etc

Wordpress - write/edit an entry for your blog

Tasty - very useful if you have a delicio.us account

LogMeIn Ignition - control your pc remotely

ConverBot - Very nice app for convertering values

Deliveries - track your parcels

Things - task management program, syncs with your mac

Dictionary - I'm really surprised Apple haven't included their own

TVGuide - now and next for your fav tv channels

Shazam - find and id songs

Colloquy - irc client

RadioBox - listen to internet radio

Games

Bejeweled 2

Tetris

Labyrinth

Monkey Ball

Sonic 1

GlassTower

Brick 3D

Peggle

:)

tweetdeck - just updated to fix some bugs. favorite twitter app at the moment. column tabs are awesome.

beejive - with push this app is awesome. almost instantaneous ims.

nytimes - sometimes buggy but very cool when you want to catch up with whats going on.

weatherbug elite - very detailed weather info. includes camera view for your area if available. and map customization is awesome.

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