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Review: World Factbook 2008 for iPhone
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dreyfus 
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Posted 31 October 2008 - 09:58 AM
That was the most timely review ever! I am currently pulling my hair if to get "World Factbook 2008" or "World Wiki Plus" - both include the CIA Factbook, WWP is a lot cheaper ( 1 USD / 0.79 EUR), seems to have landscape mode, plus has full screen flags and most anthems.
I was really trying to figure out if WF2008 offers anything above WWP - it seems to boil down to some icons in the section index... I assume I will be getting WWP then. Thanks! That was helpful.
I was really trying to figure out if WF2008 offers anything above WWP - it seems to boil down to some icons in the section index... I assume I will be getting WWP then. Thanks! That was helpful.
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Posted 31 October 2008 - 11:59 AM
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Well, I just bought it. It is basically World Wiki (All Wikipedia articles for each country), plus large flags plus the CIA Factbook, plus instrumental versions of anthems. All content, except for the anthems, is stored on the iPhone. The free version of World Wiki does only include the Wikipedia content (which is very brief), the CIA Factbook content has much more depth.
Comparing it to the review above it offers more than World Factbook 2008 and gets the interface stuff right (there is a landscape mode and there is an alphabetical index, like in the contacts application). I think it is well worth the money - and 1 buck is about right for repackaged content that is otherwise freely available. I recommend it.
Well, I just bought it. It is basically World Wiki (All Wikipedia articles for each country), plus large flags plus the CIA Factbook, plus instrumental versions of anthems. All content, except for the anthems, is stored on the iPhone. The free version of World Wiki does only include the Wikipedia content (which is very brief), the CIA Factbook content has much more depth.
Comparing it to the review above it offers more than World Factbook 2008 and gets the interface stuff right (there is a landscape mode and there is an alphabetical index, like in the contacts application). I think it is well worth the money - and 1 buck is about right for repackaged content that is otherwise freely available. I recommend it.
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