
Until recently, your iPhone could do all sorts of everyday stuff like make phone calls, surf the web, play MP3s and take pictures. But now that the Apple App Store has launched, the device’s capabilities are endless. Your phone can now make strange noises when you tap it, find a restaurant when you shake it or pause a CD from across the room.
Here’s our list of eight cool things your iPhone 2.0 can do for you. All of the apps we’ve highlighted are available in the App Store, and many of them are free. We’ve excluded games (check Game|Life) and e-books (boring!) from the list. The links we’ve provided are to the web pages for the apps themselves, not the App Store pages — not everyone has an iPhone and iTunes 7.7, and we don’t want to exclude anyone. Besides, you know how to use a search box, right?
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