App of the Week: A Swiss Army Knife for the iPhone By Roy Furchgott

September 9, 2009, 4:21 pm
App of the Week: A Swiss Army Knife for the iPhone By Roy Furchgott

AppBox Pro's icon – a multi-bladed folding knife – acknowledges its goal to be the Swiss Army knife of apps. It has collected 21 popular functions in a single 99-cent iPhone app, and it lets you add more for free.

Standard in AppBox are a number of specialized calculators, calendars and reminder programs, a currency converter, flashlight, Google books and games.

I found the battery life calculator useful in plotting out how I would waste my battery. It tells you approximately how many minutes longer you can talk, play games, surf the Web on either the 3G network or Wi-Fi, or listen to music before you run out of power.

I also like Price Grab, which makes a price comparison between items of different cost and quantity – handy in the grocery store — to tell you which of two products is really the better deal.

The start screen can be customized to show only the apps you want and how you want them displayed. It also has a feature in settings that lets you find more Web apps to add.

Does anyone actually need all of these functions? Probably not. And they may not all be best-in-class, but for about a buck, it's worth it for the ones you consider keepers. Hey, even an actual Swiss Army knife has a few useless blades.
App of the Week: A Swiss Army Knife for the iPhone - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com (12 September 2009)
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