Yes, it’s another iPhone post.


The Apple site has a directory of iPhone web apps, but it's full of toys and games. It's difficult to find the useful web apps.

So this post is a list of good web sites that leverage web functionality, and tailor the interface for the iPhone:

News & Feeds

Google Reader
http://www.google.com/reader/i
A great way to read multiple feeds rather than bookmarking many different blogs and reading each separately.

Ninemsn
http://m.ninemsn.com.au

News
http://iphone.news.com.au

Google News Australia
http://www.google.com.au/m/news

Reuters mobile
http://us.mobile.reuters.com

Yahoo
http://au.m.yahoo.com

Zdnet
http://m.zdnet.com.au

The Age
http://m.gfg.theage.com.au/HomePage.aspx

Engadget (thanks Damien)
http://i.engadget.com

Social

Facebook
http://iphone.facebook.com
Yes, we’ve talked about this before. I think the iPhone app is better, but the web app was the first.

Twitter mobile
http://m.twitter.com

LinkedIn
https://m.linkedin.com

Tools

digg
http://m.digg.com

Google Translator
http://translate.google.com

Wikipedia
http://wikipedia.comoki.com

Other Google stuff
http://www.google.com.au/m/products/

Banking

ANZ
http://www.anz.com
ANZ bank have been advertising their iPhone friendly site, which includes personal banking features.

Commsec
http://commsec.com.au/iphone
I haven't got an account to test this.

Bank of America
https://www.bankofamerica.com/mobile
Has some nice location based stuff that gets picked up by the iphone mapping.

Property

Domain
http://m.domain.com.au
The header could be smaller, but the functionality is nice.

Transport & Flight Information

Qantas
http://www.qantas.com/mobile
Check flight times. No e-commerce.

Public Transport
http://iphone.itransit.com.au
Tram and train times. Bookmark this if you use public transport.  You can add shortcuts to your popular stops on your homescreen.

Fashion

Chloé
http://www.chloe.com
Nice site for the women's fashion label.

Local Information

Docoloco
http://www.docoloco.com/iphone

Australian Weather
http://i.ozpda.com/ozweather/

Google Movie times
http://www.google.com.au/movies
Not really optimised for iPhone but still very cool.

Magazine

Womans Day
http://apps.womansday.com/womansday_iphone

Cleo
http://cleomobile.ninemsn.com.au/mobile

To Be Categorised

Bright Kite
http://i.brightkite.com
Ah, not really sure what this is good for yet, but I know it’s cool

Get Leaflets
http://app.getleaflets.com

Thanks to Carl, Dan and Damien for sending through some great links.

Post comments with your favourite web app URLs, and I'll add them to the list.


Matt Watson, Technical Director

Labels: iPhone, Technology, Web App