WolframAlpha for IPhone
Recently Wolfram Alpha’s iPhone was released which gives users full access to Wolfram Alpha’s capabilities and immensely improved in speed and ergonomics of Wolframs Alpha’s mobile site. The main aim of the company is to replace stand alone graphic calculators by targeting this app at students and professionals.
One of the amazing features of this app is its dual keyboards. One keyboard is for numbers and symbols and other a regular QWERTY keyboard. This app works only when you are connected to the Internet. This might be a deal breaker for many but then it has plenty to offer like the basic graphing calculators when you can’t access Internet. It is well suited to solve a high school or college goer through its vast database of chemical compounds, nutritional data, geographical information, financial data etc.
Using Alpha isn’t as easy as using Google. It’s rather strict on how you structure a querry while Google has no such specification. It has a demo video to help you out with lots of example queries.
Though the price is too high the Wolfram Alpha team is stressing on the part of this app having lot to offer that a Web app can’t offer. This app is capable of making assumptions based on your location they also have included some features that make using the app easier than using the web service.