2,908 views Even if you missed the Mobile Apps Showdown event, it doesn’t mean that you’ll miss out on seeing these great apps in action. We invited the developers to come to our booth and demonstrate their apps in 90-second quick-fire demos. We have assembled 13 of those videos here for you to watch. Click on any of the links below to go straight to a video of that product. We have the two winners, plus eleven more contenders in our video collection. So check out our apps and see if you’d like to add them to your mobile.
Clixtr
The winner of the Mobile Apps Showdown live event, Clixtr turns smartphones into smartcameras by leveraging location-based technologies and the rapidly improving quality of camera phones. Add the “where” to the “what” in your smartphone pics.
Gwabbit
Online readers went cwazy for Gwabbit, voting it into first place in the Mobile Apps Showdown online competition. Gwabbit scans incoming BlackBerry emails, finds contacts, and instantly transforms them into contact records within your Outlook address book - all with a single mouse click.
Aha
Providing more than just traffic info from the Department of Transportation, Aha uses a peer-to-peer network to let all drivers communicate their traffic experience with each other for real-time, in-traffic information.
Truphone
Turn your iPod into an iPhone: With the Truphone-created app, users find themselves with a powerful phone replete with calling options, instant messaging capabilities, and most attractively, low-cost calling.
Gravity
Gravity equips social media mavens with all the tools they need to customize and optimize their Twitter experience on their S60 mobile devices.
Date Check
Don’t go into a blind date blind. Date Check lets you get the stats on your potential paramour so that you can feel safe that it won’t be some creep, crook, or scam artist. Cynical? Yes. Does it work? You bet.
SAT Vocab Challenge
iPhone as tutor: This iPhone and iPod touch app is a college admissions exam resource that measures a user’s mastery of 250 words, including The Princeton Review’s Hit Parade, a list of 100 words that most frequently appear on the SAT. Makes mobile study sessions easy.
Telenav GPS Navigator
Get a digital copilot: TeleNav GPS Navigator transforms mobile phones into full-featured personal navigation devices. The service includes full-color, 2D or 3D maps with voice and onscreen turn-by-turn driving or walking directions.
LogMeIn Ignition
Access your PC from anywhere with your iPhone or iPod Touch. LogMeIn Ignition connects to desktops and laptops running LogMeIn Pro, LogMeIn IT Reach, or LogMeIn Free, and can be used to control Windows PCs and Mac OS computers.
Livio Radio
You can now listen to all the stations from the Livio Radio — the WiFi radio that frees Internet radio from your PC — in your car with the Car Internet Radio by Livio Radio for iPhone application. Livio’s soon-to-be-released iPhone app features the first ever “direct tuning” of over 16,000 radio stations, and it lets you take and receive phone calls easily within the application while driving.
Slacker Radio
Slacker allows music lovers to play personalized music on the go with the Slacker Mobile application for iPhone, BlackBerry, and soon Android and Windows Mobile. Slacker.com worked with all major music labels and thousands of indie labels to license their content legally, giving music lovers free access to millions of songs, over 100 pre-programmed genre stations, thousands of artist stations, or their own custom-created stations.
Shazam
Is the name of that tune on the tip of your tongue? With this app you can get the name in seconds flat using your iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, or Symbian smartphone. Take a quick sample and Shazam returns song information, artist, title, album, release date, and more in just a few moments.
