Article prepared 3/3/2010 at 12:00 PT (SuperPages.com supports the own version of Yellow Pages) and updated fortitude issues at 2:00 pm PT.The margin ofiPhone poke apps is already swarming with Yelp, Urbanspoon, and Zagat for dining; Flixsters Movies app for showtimes; YellowPages for people; and Google Mobile App for only about all else. Now here comes Poynt, a new free iPhone poke app that mashes together elements of them all.At the core, Poynt is an aggregator of third-party services encased in an tasteful wrapper. SuperPages.com powers the commercial operation listings; CinemaSource feeds you party info and facilitates sheet purchases around MovieTickets.com. Poynt taps SuperPages, CitySearch, and OpenTable to find you food, and Google Maps handles all mapping and directions on the local app. With the difference of Google Maps, that kicks you out, Poynt keeps you in the sourroundings with an in-app browser.Poynts underline set is clever overall, with buttons for on vacation the Web site where available, calling, mapping, acid nearby, streaming movie trailers, and observation protracted being if you have an iPhone 3GS. Instead of drumming to place a call, Poynt employs a job gesture. As with voice poke in Google Mobile app, light the phone to your ear triggers the action.Poynt integrates calling, Web lookups, and Google directions.(Credit:Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)We do have teenager complaints. Although Poynt lassos 3 services to move dining reservations and reviews, it lacks Yelps finish features, similar to observation photos and flagging if restaurants are now open. Other niggles: The navigation carousel on the dash shade is some-more in vogue than saying 4 immobile icons but is additionally less efficient. Poynts content fields dedicated to numbers should call up the iPhones numerical keyboard, not the practical content keyboard. Voice poke is an absent underline for those who dont feel stupid vocalization poke conditions aloud in public.The accessible call gesticulate got us in to trouble--or rather, the hardware did. With call gestures on, tapping, touching, or differently enchanting the sensor (near the speaker) can trigger a call. We got held in an continuous dialing double back whilst perplexing to take screenshots. If you"re environment off neglected calls as well often, disabling call gestures in the iPhone Settings or minding your hands should keep you out of trouble.Poynts publisher, Multiplied Media, has combined a convincing iPhone version of Poynt for BlackBerry that at slightest has a shot of violation in to the iPhones ranks of high-rated poke apps. Poynt is accessible in the US and Canada.
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