It’s been covered to death on the web, but the free IMDb app (US App Store only?) is still worth at least a brief mention. Instead of constantly googling movie or actor names + IMDB, you can just load up this native app and see all of your Internet Movie Database searches show up in an iPhone-friendly format. Macgasm also made a good point about how the app highlights the other features of the website you might not normally notice.
Here’s the thing, though: I’m not sure the IMDb app actually saves any time on an iPhone 3GS. In a non-scientific race where Safari rendered the full IMDb page for “The Mentalist” (current fave TV show) and the IMDb app loaded an iPhone friendly version of the site, I honestly didn’t see much of a difference in speed. The full IMDb page loads pretty quickly in my browser, and the IMDb app just doesn’t seem all that snappy in comparison, and all of the information is a lot more compartmentalized to look neat on the screen – which ultimately means more tapping and scrolling.
I’ll have to see if this one stays on my iPhone – how about you folks?
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