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Punch-o-Meter for iPhone
What is it?
Punch-o-Meter is a Nintendo Wii-like game where the phone’s accelerometer is used to measure and assign points to the speed, strength, and trajectory of one’s punch. Essentially, it’s an iPhone peeing contest where people punch the air with their cell phones in their hands to try and outman the next guy [...]

Shazam for iPhone
What is it?
Shazam is similar to the music identification feature of Verizon’s V Cast Music with Rhapsody, which gives cell phone users the ability to identify songs that they hear on the fly. By holding up your iPhone (and now G1) to a speaker, Shazam returns the artist, song title, album, and record [...]

P!nk’s Funhouse on iPhone
What is it?
Called a “branded application,” Sony BMG artist Pink’s (P!nk?) iPhone application is a purely promotional product for her album entitled “Funhouse,” which (likely not coincidentally) is featured on the iTunes music store this week.
How much does it cost?
Free.
Who is it good for?
Pink fans and Pink fans only.
Summary
Pink’s promotional iPhone [...]

Pandora for iPhone

What is it?
Pandora has long been an office favorite site for free Internet radio and music discovery (like Musicovery, Last.fm, and Grooveshark, among others). The iPhone version of Pandora takes the site’s basic premise of being able to create radio stations based on a song or artist and streamlines it for mobile. If [...]