I was wondering that among the thousands of apps in app store, what are the apps specifically built for iPhone owners in India. So, here is the list of the apps which I found out to be filling up the criteria, please feel free to add apps names through comments, I will update the post accordingly.
Free app and ruling among the most downloaded apps in India for obvious reasons. App description :
Hanuman Chalisa is the written hymns of Goswami Tulsidas which praises Lord Hanuman who is known as a symbol of auspiciousness. It is recited as a prayer everyday or every week by many followers and has gained enormous popularity among the many Hindus across the world.
The application features in English, Hindi and Gujarati, including remarkable graphics of Hanuman and is easy to use – allowing you to scroll the text at your own pace.
Another neat app, targeting people interested in bollywood songs. Its a paid app and sells for $2.99. There is also a web app for the same and you can listen the songs using the url : m.dhingana.com. The web app link works for all smartphones and is not just limited to iPhone. So if you have something like E71, you can enjoy the web app as well.
Features of the app
Discover & listen great music using your iPhone on EDGE / 3G or Wifi networks
Listen to songs in the background and access other applications while you listen to songs (only on Web App)
Easily play “Top Songs” songs from all the genres from Dhingana.
Access all the public playlists created by other users
Login and access your own public and private playlists
Search for any song, album or playlists by actor, year, singer, director or names
Listen to music while you drive your car, or when you are on vacation or anywhere from your iPhone
Even though end of the year is coming but still this app is going strong. Its a paid app and costs $0.99. It gives all the events, festivals happening in current year for many religions.
App Description :
You’re interested to know which festivals will come in the next days or months? You want to know when the next purnima will rise in the sky? You want to know the dates of Diwali for this year?
Then you just need our panchang 2009. Very easy to use, you have 2009 details at the tip of your finger. All the events happening in India, for Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, and civil life.
Nearly all the events and festivals are illustrated with a photo: Nearly 340 hundred photos.
IndiaBullion is another paid app which gives you updates on India commodity market. Costs around $0.99 and its a worth the money as I have read reviews about it.
App Description :
With the IndiaBullion iPhone App, you can stay connected to the Indian Equity markets and Bullion trade at all times! IndiaBullion gives you the latest and periodic updates on the happenings of the Indian commodities market – the MCX, the Equities and the Bullion trading market. You can make last minute changes to your investment plans and predict how your assets are performing based on these vital alerts. Get this App and stay apprised of your investments!.
Again a free app which is being downloaded significantly from app store. Given the importance(religious aspect as well) of the baby names in Indian culture, this app comes with baby names along with their meanings.
Hindi Email Keyboard is another nifty app by which you can write emails in hindi. Addition to that there is option available to change the colors and size of the font, to make your email more interesting. Its a paid app and costs $0.99.
This app gives you access to the Galatta magazine on your iPhone, means all the south indian movies gossip and news right into your pocket for free. Although as per description in app store, its original price was about $11.99 and currently its been given out for free as part of promotion.
App Description :
Galatta Cinema magazine is the largest circulating English Cinema Magazine in India for South Indian movies. It offers a complete picture of the movie industry in the 4 southern states of India – an urban, interesting , full-colour, glossy and exciting read any way you look at it.Galatta Cinema assures iPhone rich reading experience of all its 100+ pages in high fidelity that can be viewed anywhere in the planet where you read the replica of the latest print version of the magazine that is on the stands.
Indian Curry (Non Veg) gives a recipes of popular dishes(including Butter Chicken ). Its a paid app and costs $0.99.
App Description :
Here is a collection of most popular Indian Recipes (Non Vegetarian). These are easy to cook and don’t need any special cooking expertise. Give a big Christmas or New Year surprise to your partner or friends with your newfound cooking talent of Indian curries. Enjoy !!
This application consists mouth watering recipes of following Indian non veg dishes :
- Bengali Fish Curry
- Butter Chicken
- Chicken Malai Kebabs
- Chicken Tikka Masala
- Fish Masala
- Goan Fish Curry
- Hot And Sour Shrimps
- Kashmiri Lamb
- Lemon Garlic Chicken
- Masala Crab Curry
- Masala Lobster
- Masala Prawns
- Mutton Curry
- Mutton Kadai
- Prawn Tikka
- Tandoori Chicken
There is also a veg version of the app which can be found at the iTunes Link.
India News updates on the go. Free app, does it works pretty good. I should add there are pretty good amount of iPhone apps related to India news.
That’s all for now but please be noted that its a on going project and I will be adding more apps in this list in the future. Again if you have some app in mind, please do mention about it through comments. Thanks.
After months of wait Google finally released their Google Latitude features in form of a web app for mobile devices including iPhone.
Google Latitude is basically a new feature in google maps where you will be able to see your friends on the map, where they are, and send them instant msgs or email. To access Google Latitude just type google.com/latitude into your iPhone browser and let the magic begin.
Below video will explain more about google latitude.
Please note that as per google the Latitude web app currently supports iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.0 or above. So, i am not pretty sure how it will work out for you on older version of iPhone OS.
The all amazing interesting search engine Wolfram alpha just optimized its interface for iPhone users. So, if you are fan of all geeky search engine, do check it out from your iPhone on the go with a better experience.
And as per their blog post, they are also thinking of coming up with a dedicated app for iPhone.
Yet another addition from Google to make gmail more attractive on iPhone. Now you will be able to label your mails for iPhone as well.
To label an email, select a message then tap ‘Label as…” from the drop-down menu on the Floaty Bar. In the pop-up menu, select the label(s) you would like to use and tap ‘Apply’.
Although users will not be able to add new labels but its a pretty good addition to the gmail mobile. More info on the googlemobile blog
As we all know that Google Product Search gives us the information like prices, ratings, reviews, and product details from all over the web and it was high time it came to iPhone platform. The app will give you all you want to know about any product on the go.
Say you’re in a store and having a hard time deciding between two products. Instead of waiting to go home to check the internet for ratings and reviews, you can now get all of this information right there on the spot. Just take out your phone, go to Google.com in your browser, and try out Google Product Search for mobile. From Google.com, type in a query and then tap on the “shopping” link that appears in the search results. Or, tap on the “more” tab and then “shopping” to get to Product Search directly.
It was back in MWC 2009 when google demoed a offline gmail application and now they have finally released all with a upgrade to the Gmail Web App.
Two major features to look out for are :
Offline Mailing
With this feature enabled, whenever you connect to Gmail the mails gets cached/stored in iPhone memory. So, even though there is not internet connection/network reception on iPhone, you can always go ahead and read the emails and compose mails offline. And as soon iPhone finds a healthy reception, its sync all offline content with the online Gmail account. So, lost of time at all .
Floating Menus
Another feature which is worth noticing is floating menus, which will let you perform actions on many items at once. Suppose you want to archive some mails, all you have to do is select the option from the mail and mark the respective mails.
with which you can perform actions archiving
Now, when you go to gmail.com from your iPhone or Android browser, archiving email is quicker because it doesn’t require a response from a remote server. Instead, we cache mail on the device itself (using database storage on the iPhone and a device-local mobile Gears database on Android-powered phones). Actions like archiving or starring messages are first applied to this cache and then sent to Gmail servers in the background whenever a network connection is available. You only have to wait for a response from the server when you’re requesting an uncached message or list of messages. As a result, you can start-up Gmail even if you’re on a slow connection. You can even compose mail and open recently read messages while offline.
Here is the updated Gmail webapp in action :
To experience the new web app, just open the gmail.com in your safari browser and let the fun begin .
iPhone owners who are using the Mobile Me services, now will be able to share their data/files using MobileMe iDisk.
From Apple:
We’re pleased to announce that you can now use your MobileMe iDisk to share files with others simply and easily. Instead of attaching a large document to an email and hoping it’s not too big to be received, you can place the file in your iDisk and use the new Share File command in the iDisk web app. It lets you send your friends, family, or colleagues a link they can click to download the file directly. You can password protect the link if you choose to and even set how long it will be available.
The new year presents from Google just keep on coming. New addition on the list of features provided by google is calendar and contacts sync to your iPhone, windows and symbian based mobiles phones.
What it means is that now you can sync Google Calendar and Gmail contacts with the calendar and contact application in your phone wirelessly.
For iPhone and Windows Mobile devices, Google Sync allows you to get your Gmail contacts and Google Calendar events onto your phone. Sync uses push technology, which means that any changes you make to your calendar or contacts from the browser or phone will be reflected on your device within minutes. For phones that support SyncML, the tool will allow you to get your Gmail contacts onto your phone. For all of these devices, synchronization happens automatically over the air, without having to manually sync your phone. The connection is always on, which means your information is always up-to-date, no matter where you are or what you’re doing.
To Sync on iPhone you have to open m.google.com/sync from your safari browser and follow the steps.
Here is video from Google about the Sync feature :
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