Applications for the iPhone help you save gas
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Green Culture, MPG, Green Daily
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Alright, so perhaps that iPhone 3G's GPS system leaves a little to be desired for the hardcore automotive crowd, but that doesn't mean that your brand new purchase can't prove useful to you for more than its normal mobile phone abilities. Since you're reading this article here on AutoblogGreen, we are going to go ahead and assume that you are interested in saving gas, either for the planet's sake or at least for the sake of your wallet. Take a look at these five programs which were designed to help owners of a brand spankin' new iPhone save a few bucks on gas. From fuel mileage tracking to finding the best gas prices in your area, developers have jumped on the ability to develop new applications for die-hard Apple users like nobody's business. Best of all... they range in price from free to just shy of $2 bucks.
[Source: Earth2Tech]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-16-2008 @ 12:56PM
TX CHL Instructor said...
The iPhone is sorta neat, but neat enough to justify standing in line, much less camping out overnight in front of an AT&T store. The new apps are also sorta neat, but ditto the first sentence. When I heard about the screwups on Friday, it made me doubly glad I didn't factor myself in with the epsilon-minuses.
I might get a 3G iPhone 2.0 -- next month. Or I might just wait until the epsilon-minuses have finished with the beta testing of 2.0, and get 2.1. Or, I might just wait until the price goes down. Again. Meanwhile, I have my own ways of saving gas which don't require a new, 'improved' iPhone to implement.
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7-16-2008 @ 12:58PM
TX CHL Instructor said...
Typo -- left out a 'not' in the first sentence.
7-16-2008 @ 3:13PM
radhoo said...
If it's free and it helps us to save some gas it's good. But I think that few people will use it.
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7-17-2008 @ 7:51AM
larry said...
Microsoft has been offering gas price service for Windows Mobile phones for a few years now.
Live Search for Windows Mobile® is available to most Windows Mobile users at no additional charge at http://wls.live.com –just go there from your Windows Mobile phone.
Cool features include: traffic, movie times and theaters, gas prices, and more. You can even speak the search term you want to use.
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