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Planet of the Apps: 21st June
|10:00 UK time, Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Stuart Dredge is back again with his weekly apps news and reviews.
NEWS
Average mobile user spends 81 minutes a day using apps
New research shows the average time we spend using apps has shot up from 43 minutes in June last year to 81 minutes now. People are picking their phones up to use apps more times a day - and using apps for more time than they use the regular internet (74 minutes). How are they spending this app-time? 47% of it is spent playing games, and 32% is spent social networking.
Wahwah lets you create your own radio station from your iPhone and broadcast it to other users of the app. Which sounds great, but it's a bit fiddly - you have to actually have the music you want to play in your SoundCloud account which is essentially a site for bands and producers. So really it's more for bands who want to start their own iPhone radio stations full of their own music - which is still very interesting and could be really exciting.
Most music games involve tapping or pressing buttons along to the music, but the new Android game 'Lyric Legend' focuses on the words. Players tap along to words as they appear in songs and, although it's quite difficult, it shows how lyrics are becoming part of apps.
REVIEWS
Bowie's Golden Years single from 1975 has been made available as a remix app for iPhone, however the remixing extends to basically turning the volume up and down for different bits of the track.
Another literary app for iPad, this takes the beat novel and puts on all manner of bells and whistles. You can read the text alongside Kerouac's original draft to see which bits were edited out, hear audio clips of him reading it, watch a bunch of video documentaries and see an interactive map of the book's road trips.
The NME has released a new iPad app based on the White Stripes frontman, gathering together a lot of interviews and photos from throughout his career. It's an example of how music magazines are trying to use their archives in apps-land.
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