iPhone App Spotlight: iStat

1157 days ago in Articles, Contributors, iPhone App Spotlight by John Fuller | No Comments

The iPhone is a full-featured computer in your pocket, and like all other computers the iPhone has a processor, memory, storage, and network connections. iStat Pro, a popular Mac OS X dashboard widget, has been ported to the iPhone to monitor and display information regarding the interworkings of your phone.

At the most basic level, iStat can display memory allotment, disk space, IP addresses, uptime & load information, and your iphone’s Unique Identifier & MAC address. The application also includes the options to ‘Free Memory’ and to email your MAC address, Unique Identifier, or both. iStat really opens up the information you can get out of your iPhone and has made me look at the device as a computer, and not as a phone.

Using the free iStat Server software, the iPhone application can view and access computer statistics remotely. For more advanced users, iStat provides ping and traceroute functionality.

iStat is a new breed of iPhone application, and excels as a superb system monitoring tool. If you’re into the geeky information you can retain about your iPhone, iStat is worth a download. It is available for $1.99 in the iPhone App Store.