For Valto or anyone who’s wondering how to log into your Fictionwise account instead of your eReader account, I found out by accident! Just type in your Fictionwise ID and password, and you’ll be redirected automatically to your Fictionwise bookshelf. I have the same eReader and Fictionwise login ID, and I was taking forever to figure out why I could only get my Fictionwise bookshelf until I remembered to add the “@….com” part of the eReader login as well, doh!!!

James…try moviefone web app for iPhone. Really amazing with great trailer service. Get it at moviefone.com. Make it an icon.

I had a confusion between programs that can download ‘updates’ outside of apple’s store v.s. pure ‘content’ which seems kosher. Thanks for prompting me to check the docs myself.

To even be offered on the App Store Apple has to approve the program so I don’t think it violates anything.

Doesn’t the eReader violate the App store terms of service? I was under the impression developers were not allowed to distribute apps that download/save content. It’s a shame when the most popular app is actually prohibido :(

My fav app so far is AOL Radio. It’s amazing.

iPods/Phones have never had FM radio…but AOL has AM and FM and many stations all over the country.

The “Local” button is pretty amazing, giving good coverage for local radio.

And, is the Apple App Store creating business? How’s this? I was bummed at how slow the ereader.com site was until I read their explanation that they have been overwhelmed by new business from iPhones!

As I say, there is almost no way for other phones to catch up. The iTunes network, along with the App store and related content flows is a MONSTER feature that no other manufacturer has.

FYI, you can log into both your eReader and Fictionwise Bookshelf with the eReader application on the iPhone. I buy nearly all of my ebooks on Fictionwise (they have great discounts and deals) and just went in there today to update my credit card since my old ones are gone and then accessed the library on my iPhone. You simply enter your Fictionwise username and password and you should see all of your Fictionwise eReader books in your library where you can then download them to your iPhone. You can also then go sign into your eReader account (I bought one book to test this out) and download and read those titles too right from the iPhone.

IMHO, this is AWESOME and confirms that I no longer need to buy a Kindle. I also understand you can use Safari to buy books and then download them with eReader, but haven’t tried this yet myself. I wish you could access the eReader or Fictionwise store through the application and maybe that is coming in the future.

You hit it on the head, but my experience has differed in some details. For instance, I like Bookshelf much better than eReader, largely because it doesn’t require me to buy the texts from eReader, instead letting me use my old files.

Many of the apps look rushed and half-finished and overly reliant on Apple libraries for much of their functionality. There’ll be a shake-out, with only a few competitors in each category making real money and offering frequent upgrades. You could offer a great service to consumers in keeping your finger on the pulse of that process.

Getting back to the big picture, it took a day for me to realize that this was not just a replacement for my phone, but also for my N800. The N800 does some things better and some worse and they COULD complement each other, but it seems more likely that I’ll be carrying one device most of the time instead of two.

For example, movies are smoother on the iPhone. Although it has a smaller screen, I can encode movies at a higher res (and higher bitrate) than I can for N800. I can search back and forth in a 480×272 movie on the iPhone, but that was painful in a 400×224 movie on N800. In some ways, the higher res screen on N800 is crippled by the slow processor. And I am prepared to endure iPhone’s battery to get its processor!

I guess the plus side is that you don’t have to hunting for where the apps live.

The Nokia N8x0 maemo apps work like this and I quite like that you just click on “what can I install” and it shows you.

Dunno, does having a “limited” but centralised choice of apps outweigh a larger but more diverse locality ?

@NigelG

Yeah, I haven’t installed 20-some apps on my Windows Mobile-based Sprint Mogul, and more importantly– nevermind that if you look on the App Store, half of them are duplicated applications (I counted at least 10 Tip Calculators on Friday).