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Offline access would be nice, but I can just about live without it.Įditor: Do you run a business from your iPhone, or perhaps you have a story to tell in celebration of iPhone's fifth anniversary? Please email your personal account to joe at betanews dot com. It lets me get to my customer information quickly, and uses HTML5 to provide a very slick ‘app style’ interface. Their iPhone app is actually a web application that I’ve bookmarked to my homescreen. I use the separate app on iOS 4.2.1.Ĭapsule is a lightweight CRM tool that lets me manage my work and contacts. To clarify: Twitter is integrated into iOS 5, which isn't supported on iPhone 3G. Marketing and "social networking" are a big part of running a modern small business. Now officially part of iOS, the Twitter app lets me interact with that community wherever I am. This app hooks up to my Google Analytics account and quickly and clearly tells me what I need to know. I need to know who is visiting my various sites, when, and why.
The whole package makes even a USB thumb stick seem antiquated. The iPhone app means I always have an up-to-date set of my work with me in my pocket, and I can share with anyone directly from the app. The Dropbox service is a great way for me to keep my files synced across devices. So what apps do I need to run my business? Well there are a fair few, and this isn’t a ‘Top 100 Business Apps’ piece, but the most useful for me are: Downloadable applications where only introduced as part of iOS 2.0, a year after the original phone came out. Apps are one of the first things many people think of when they think iPhone, but it is interesting to note they weren't even part of the original device. I admit it, iPhone apps are pretty persuasive, and mean I can customize my phone to do the specific things my business needs of it. More and more for work these are video interviews with people I need to know about, or shows that I have missed and try to catch up with on the move. Secondly, I can keep important video files on hand. Research material, background reading, the latest news - all of it can be stored on my phone. Firstly I can carry around all of the Podcasts and audio books that I need. Straight off, the iPhone included everything that was good about the iPod (bar the storage of the iPod Classic, but I can forgive that). It helps me get to where I need to be, quicker than I can on my own, and for work that is invaluable. Again Maps is something I now take for granted, but which 20 years ago would have been almost (almost) on par with flying to Mars. But when I get somewhere I rely on my iPhone to tell me where I am, or more typically how far I am away from where I actually need to be. Sure I check the general locale, or the train or bus times. Sitting here at my desk now, I’m more than happy to set off for a meeting or trip without really knowing where I am going. The Maps app (soon to be revamped in iOS 6) has saved my bacon more times than I care to remember. (Almost) Never Be Late for a Meeting Again We take all this for granted now but it was revolutionary stuff half a decade ago. I could stay ahead of the curve with access to my RSS feeds and normal news sites. I could check sources for articles on the train. On the way to conferences I could Google who I was meeting.
This gave me the power of information, literally at my fingertips. I could pinch and zoom and visit pretty much all the sites I needed (The ever topical Flash issue aside). Not a cut down version, or the woeful WAP, but the real thing. Opera did an excellent job, and I still have fond memories of using Opera Mini on my Sony Ericsson, but the iPhone gave me access to the web I was used to. It is easy to forget now but Apple was the first company to make mobile browsing work for the masses. The first thing my iPhone gave me was access to the real Internet, in a useable way, in the palm of my hand. So how do I manage my day to day business activities from my iPhone 3G?Īpps are of course a big part of this story, but they came later.