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I’ve had the iPhone for 1 week now and one of the first topics that comes up with friends is the Apps.  After the jump… we’ll dive in.

So far I have an even 50 apps on the phone and have probably downloaded twice that.  I look at the apps in 3 categories, Everyday Use, Rarely Used (but it’ll be cool as hell when I get the opportunity) and Crap.  For now, we’ll focus on the Everyday Use apps.

Twitterific – I’ve downloaded about 10 twitter apps to do some comparing and for awhile I had this one and Twitterfon both on the phone.  Finally Twitterific won.  I wish I had a better reason but it really came down to the icon (lame I know).  If you use Twitter you’ll know 75% of what’s in this app.  The surprises came with integrated TwitPic and TwitVid to embed pics and vids directly into twitter posts without leaving the app, the ability to use the GPS to put your location right into the post and the Nearby feed that shows people’s posts that are within 5 miles of me.

One of the cooler parts of the app is that I can tap a post and pull up details about the author or the ability to retweet where it’ll paste their post into a new one.  It also gives the option to replace the screen names with the people’s real name which is a nice addition.

Pandora & Last.fm – These two are similar enough to group together but they are two separate apps (if that needed to be said).  I’ve used both of these apps to death and they give the Zune a nice break during the work day.  Both apps allow you to search for a song, artist or genre and then stream accordingly.  Songs that you want to save for later can be tagged or bought immediately from iTunes (which is no longer a bad option since Apple finally gave up the DRM).

The only difference I’ve found is that Last.fm defaults to lower quality sound unless you’re on wifi but you can turn this option off and force it to give up the higher quality sound over 3G.

Ghostly Discovery – This app is similar to the other radio apps.  The two big differences are that this app focuses on electronic music and it allows more customization to select your mood as well as organic / electronic or slow / fast songs.

That’s it for now.  There are more that get heavy use but I don’t think you need me to explain what AccuWeather or WordPress do.  Next time I’ll focus on the apps that rarely get used but are drop-droppers when they are.