The IMDB iPhone app is now worth using

Maybe I’ve changed since I last posted on this subject, but I love this app now. Contrary to what I reported before, the free IMDB app is very, very fast.

The compartmentalized mobile-friendly design is still the same, but loading different sections of a TV show or movie takes about half a second over wi-fi, even for non-cached pages. That absolutely beats the six to ten seconds it takes the desktop page to load in mobile Safari. The only drawback to the app is that it still doesn’t display showtimes if you’re outside of the US, despite the fact that the app is now available on the Canadian App Store. Apparently IMDB doesn’t believe Canadians watch TV (we do).