The What’s On App Got Even Better

The free What’s On app had an update I noticed tonight. The What’s On app is the free TV guide program that I use. I use it so much in fact that I keep it on my main springboard page

I downloaded the app and guess what… it’s a whole new freakin’ redesign with a bunch of really kick *** features installed. One of the features they added is channel icons. Look at the screen shot at the bottom to see what I’m talkin’ about. That’s a really great feature, it’s like… it makes it feel that much more professional, ya know?

Um, what else… oh yeah, the ability is go to a specific date and time is a fine *** feature. “Baby, do you know if a new episode of The Office is on this Thuraday?” How do you answer? You say “Let me find out What’s On…“. And the animations they added is really a great touch for moving to different dates.

Now this is something I probably didn’t know about and existed in the first version, but the ability to easily and quickly add different locations for where you are is nice. What do I mean by that? I mean if you travel to another city and wanna’ know what’s on cable or digital over the air or (yuck) Verizon FIOS, you can. You can search by entering your location or by letting your iPhone find your location. And it doesn’t do anything stupid like merge different channels together, it switches out your channel line up. Got a channel you hate (like all those Spanish channels)? No prob, What’s On will remember what channels you add or remove, even when you switch saved providers. Like at home, our TV’s are programmed to skip all the Spanish channels, public access channels and spam channels (i.e. QVC). So, I programmed the What’s On app to do the same thing. Nice.

Another great thing I love is the new look of it. It just looks so nice ‘n’ polished. I honestly can’t believe this is a free app!

This is something completely new they added. Normally any kinda’ apps that add a news feed kinda’ system end up bein’ useless. But what they added is something really interesting. They added a news feed from somewhere that tells you what happened last night. Now I’m the type of person who doesn’t care anything about celebeties… at all, or give a **** about entertainment news. But this is something really interesting. If you wanna’ find information about something… “Was it just me or did that episode seem really odd last night?”, you can find out. Or, maybe just find out what you missed. I love that.

They also even have a really great feature for finding movies that are out, or will be coming out, in theaters. I don’t go out to watch movies (why watch what you can steal online, he-he-he), so I don’t want an app on my iPhone just for movies… forget that. That’s why I love it being part of the What’s On app. When someone does ask one day “I wonder what new movies are coming out this weekend?”, I know I’ll have the answer with What’s On.

This company may not be making any money with their ad-free! product, but look at my main springboard screen. Notice they’re there, along with Wordpress, Cycorder, Balance and Pandora? All free programs. They may not be makin’ money, but they remain one of the very BEST apps for the iPhone. Much respect.

What about y’all, any of you usin’ What’s On?

Peace, J

Related posts:

1. Hulu App To Come To iPhones? It’s been reported that a Hulu app will be coming...
2. New Wordpress App Released So get this, Wordpress has released a new version of...
3. The Neocell’s Runnin’ OS 3.0 The Neocell’ back. (Baby, did I miss ya or what…)...