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It is no secret I love my iPhone. As a telephony device (in which I include text messages as well as voice) it is very nice indeed, but its real strength, for me, lies in its internet connectivity. Oh, and location services: the most used apps on my iPhone are Mail, Safari and Maps. I have downloaded a few applications, and even bought a couple. I make reasonably heavy use of the Facebook app (it’s pretty poor but it works most of the time) and Echofon (for Twitter); the bought apps I use most are Tube Deluxe (super for getting around London) and MotionX’s GPS (which scores over the inbuilt Maps function because you can download maps before going somewhere that has no internet connection). There are a few other bits and bobs, but notably lacking is anything to do with science or publishing.

I’m not sure whether that’s because I tend to keep the day job off my iPhone, or whether I’ve simply not managed to find anything useful. I suspect I’m not alone in this, so I thought Walter Jessen’s review of iPhone apps for biomedical research might be of interest:

Even though I think that apps are a big step backwards in the evolution of the computer desktop