Pocket Picks :: The coolest things for the coolest phones

Qype is a website that’s been going for a while now, allowing people to rate and review places in their locality - everything from pubs and restaurants through to schools, shops and dog kennels. It’s pretty cool, and has already built up a database of 200,000 reviews from its users. Anyway, the company has just launched an iPhone-friendly version of its site, giving access to more than 6,000 cities worth of data, and 500 different kinds of business. You can search it by street name and postcode too, making it useful when out and about (which, to be honest, is the only time you’d be using the iPhone version rather than the main website anyway). iQype (as it’s known) works with Google Maps too, ensuring you can get to the places you’ve looked up. Reviews are offered in English, German and French, and the site is live now. At the moment, you can only browse it - you can’t interact by adding your own reviews - but maybe that’ll come in the future. Simply point your iPhone browser at http://i.qype.co.uk to check the new site out.