Following a company wide iPhone implementation, these are some of the apps that have really blown the consumer team’s collective minds. All these are available now from the iTunes Store.

Sway – ***** – £2.99
Stunning, but infuriating test of manual dexterity, especially if that guy on the tube doesn’t stop nudging you! With its adorable toy like graphics it is really reminiscent of the PS3 blockbuster LittleBigPlanet. Buy this game, you need it in your life

Distant Shore – *** – £0.59
Find shells and throw your personal message in a bottle into the digital sea, eventually it will wash up on another person’s digital beach. Robinson Crusoe for the 21st Century or simply a waste of time? Depends if Judge Judy’s on and you haven’t got anything better to do I suppose

Google Earth – **** – Free!
Bandwidth hungry application, exactly like its deskbound big brother, but my god is it an eye opener

Facebook – ***** – Free
The most iconic social network on the planet links dynamically with the most iconic smartphone on the planet in a nifty free app from Zuckerburg and co

Wiki Tap – **** – Free!
Never be without the tools to get one over on the all conquering pub quiz team. A great application that saves you having to lug around that five kilo Encyclopaedia Britannica in your trousers

iDracula – ***** – £0.59
Frantic finger pulsing action, as you direct a Van Helsing-a-like against a never-ending stream of the undead. Again if that bloke next to me doesn’t stop elbowing me I will go postal on his arse

Fieldrunners – **** – £2.99
Gorgeous little variation on the ‘towers’ game theme; in short build up a series of defences to thwart ever increasingly devious enemies. Employ flamethrowers, machine gun nests and Tesla turrets to annihilate the ever so cutesy little troops (and their lovely little helmets).