1st Impressions

Rock Your Phone is a brand-new iPhone store coming out to compete with the iStore monopoly.  I *love* competition!  Rock Your Phone has a nice web site, a desktop application, and a iPhone application.  There are only a few applications up on the site for now, but they really deserve to be checked out.  One free one does really nice email alert popups.  IntelliScreen is offered (and automatically recognizes if you already have it installed).  And, from the makers of IntelliScreen, is the absolutely wonderful MyProfiles.  It will get it’s own review a bit later, but it’s wonderful and, from what I can tell, the Rock Your Phone store is the only place it will be available.

The Rock Your Phone interface is, at least to me, a better one than the Cydia store.  Applications that are for sale have a ten-day trial period before a license is required (Apple missed the boat on that one).  Purchase of applications can be done via PayPal or credit card.  It couldn’t be any more painless.

Rock Your Phone requires your phone to be jailbroken – a requirement for *any* app that breaks the Apple monopoly.

AppSniper is another of my must-have apps. For a dollar, it minds the store for you. If something goes on sale, it let’s you know. When something is added, it let’s you know. And when a ’sniped’ item drops below a set price or a ‘watched’ item gets an update, guess what….it lets you know! I do suffer from the ocassional crash, but the app developer is very responsive and is working to address those. As soon as they are addressed, this app gets five stars from me.