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There are already free iPad wallpaper apps in iTunes. In fact Photobucket had an App released on 1st April. But, despite beating Cool Wallpapers for iPad by a day, they have not been as popular with only 270 reviews (with average 3 star rating) compared to 2328 reviews (also with average 3 star rating) for Cool wallpapers. It has also been pipped at the post by backgrounds HD which was released two weeks later but has had 1122 reviews (again 3 stars).
The fact that both these are the most popular wallpaper apps for iPhone has probably helped their acceptance with iPad owners.
Still, we suggest that both iPhone and iPad users can do better! There are some pretty exciting wallpapers on offer on other apps and outside iTunes. We suspect that these two apps have been so popular (the iPhone version of backgrounds HD has had over 179K reviews – with a whopping 3.5 star rating) because of the variety of wallpapers they offer. Single purpose wallpaper apps (eg, car wallpapers) have done poorly! Also, “do it yourself” wallpapers have not gone over well. It looks as if browse-select -click is what iPhone users, at least, are wanting.
So the release, yesterday, of the first Flickr wallpaper app (free, of course) for both iPhone and iPad may not get the attention it really deserves. This app allows us (iPhone and iPad users) to choose free wallpapers from some of the most stunning images from around the planet. How cool is this?
Of course, there are some web-based wallpaper sites that are also providing some stunning wallpapers for our iPhone and iPads. These are now often ignored as sources of wallpapers because of the simple browse-select -click action that apps allow us. But they do chew up less battery juice and give us extra options so are worth a look. Check this out:
Stretch yourselves folks – there are plenty of exciting images just waiting to be discovered and enjoyed!