Apple Releases Free Cards, iTunes Movie Trailers iOS Apps
Posted 10/12/2011 at 4:45pm
| by J.R. Bookwalter
Haven’t had enough free apps from Apple for one day? Well saddle up and hit the App Store, partner -- there’s more gold to be found in them thar hills, with the promised Cards app arriving for the iPhone as well as a new universal iTunes Movie Trailers app for enjoying previews of Hollywood’s finest.
Apple has pushed out two more new apps on Wednesday after releasing Find My Friends and AirPort Utility prior to the release of iOS 5 today. One of them is Cards, which was announced at last week’s “Let’s talk iPhone” event, but the other was something of a pleasant surprise: An app dedicated to watching movie trailers posted on iTunes.
Cards arrives right on cue, promising to help you create and mail beautifully crafted cards personalized with your own text and photos, right from your iPhone or iPod touch. The app includes 21 designs which can be customized with your personal message and photo, and U.S.-bound creations will get a push notification when they’ve been delivered -- only $2.99 anywhere in the United States or $4.99 anywhere else in the world, and those prices include postage.
The free Cards app is a 19MB download from the App Store compatible with all devices running iOS 5 or later -- but for some strange reason, it’s not a universal app so using it on the iPad won’t be an ideal situation.
The same cannot be said of the free iTunes Movie Trailers app that Apple also released today, which is indeed a universal build for checking out the latest Hollywood has to offer from your iOS device. Now that it’s here, we’re left wondering what took them so long to make something like this available in the first place!
iTunes Movie Trailers is a 2.8MB download now available from the App Store and requires iOS 5 or later.
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