Removing iPhone Apps

I am only keeping three applications on my iPhone- Yelp, Tetris and Pandora -and the rest I have removed from my phone. Not because I don't like them or find them useful, but because they make even the simplest tasks like texting and emailing really slow to load and I've been having serious keyboard slowdown. When opening my texts, I wait 20 seconds for my texts to be visible; i wait up to 30 seconds sometimes for the keyboard to catch up to my fingers. I never had these problems before. I also found the apps themselves are kinda crappy and often take forever to load, if they'd even load at all.

To keep my word, below is a critique of all the apps I talked about in my previous post. Here is my official MonkeyButt list for iApps^sm (title graciously suggested by THE Paisano, *hat tip.*)

Typepad: I cannot get into blogging from my mobile phone. A few months back Typepad launched improved mobile blogging features and although this app is a great addition, I don't like blogging from my phone. I am too slow typing on my iPhone and I am unable to edit and add images/multimedia to the post with the ease that I can when blogging from my laptop.

AIM: Didn't work at all. Could not even get it to load, at all. This was the first app I deleted, so moving on....

MoPhoto: To be honest, I never even opened this app. Flickr makes posting photos from my phone to my Flickr account incredibly easy. I email photos from my phone using my designated Flickr email. I never even gave this app a chance.

SunCompass: I wanted this to work so bad. I use Hopstop a lot for getting around NYC and the directions always say "go north" or "head south," and I never have any clue which way to turn. To my disappointment, this app did not work for me. It took way too long for the app to figure out which way is which.

Jamd: As much as I wanted to use this to keep up with pop culture/celebrity news, it seems I just don't care enough about the world of glamour to use it.

Bank of America: I like this app a lot, but I've always been able to easily access my account on the BOA website via my iPhone browser. I removed it because my iPhone is so slow now with these apps, so if I don't need it or love it, it's gone.

New York Times: Who am I kidding, I don't read news on the go, on my iPhone, ever. The only time I want to read news on phone- is on the Subway, which is impossible because no phone service underground. (So, while in transit, I read fiction bestsellers instead.)

Google: This app loads but then freezes and does not allow me to enter any text for at least 90 seconds. I can't wait that long. I am actually thinking I might try to keep this one, I do like using it better than the iPhone Safari browser.

Jott: Jott is a great organization and voice-to-text service, that I never fully got into. Thought I'd give it another whirl, but I quickly realized it was redundant as I am using a great task/note organization service at work already.

Comments

[Norman Huelsman]

I've also experienced problems with the apps I have. I have downloaded and deleted many of them. They are all fun to try, but I will admit I haven't had the extent of issues you have. I am downloading and updating the iPhone OS to 2.0.1 as I type this so I'm hoping the bugs will be fixed.

[Bernard Ramsey]

My favorite was the Jamd review, "it seems I just don't care enough about the world of glamour to use it." That's because you have Digital Glam.

[Brendan Starr]

Good stuff, yo. Although it sounds like there is something wrong with your phone...or maybe you just need the update. I have used many of these applications, including AIM, NYT, and Google, with no problem at all. I'd also suggest Twitterific, Facebook, and iTunes Remote apps as well.

[Rainbow Mind]

I dont like the iPhone apps deletion option. It is such a pain in the you know what. ugh....

[Paisano]

j.
Excellent and useful post. I'm not just saying that cause you mentioned me or liked the name I came up with for your MonkeyButt list. It's actually refreshing to get honest reviews of anything related to the iphone or apple itself these days amidst all of the hype and PR ooze. I am thinking about getting an iphone and this helps. Keep it up.
It's good to know what's not useful as much as what is useful.

Pai

[Don Coleman]

My iPhone ran fine - until I upgraded to 2.0. Now it takes forever to load contacts or go back to the desktop (5 to 10 seconds at times). I have compared a new 16gig 3G phone and found it to be just as slow. Third party aps are not the problem. Apple's 'upgrade' is the problem!

[jesse]

galcon, skype, and air hockey are all you need!