An app that I have always wanted since the 1.1.1 days was an app called Intelliscreen. It’s an amazing app which allows you to view your calendar, weather, emails, SMSs and more all from your lockscreen without the need to unlock your iPhone/iPod Touch. Now, RockYourPhone the creators of the app, have given me the opportunity to review their great app and I would like to thank them for this.
It is also interesting for me to do this because, since I used to trial of this app in the 1.1.1 days, I have been able to see this app evolve and become more and more sophisticated until it is what it is today – an amazing addition to my iPhone.
This app may not be the most secure due to the fact that anyone can see all your SMSs, emails and whatever else you choose to display using the Intelliscreen application but if that is not really a problem for you, then this app is great.
Weather:
Having the week’s weather on my lockscreen was one of the main reasons for me wanting this app. It displays what the weather will be (snowy, cloudy, stormy etc) and gives you the max & min of the temperature. It displays a 7-day forecast for wherever you choose. You can also have multiple destinations where you want to know the weather and switch between them simply by scrolling through them.
It also allows you to choose between Celsius and Fahrenheit. The weather forecasts are powered by Weather Underground and if you click on a certain day in the forecast, it shows you a mobile-version of their site giving all the weather in more detail such as the humidity level, wind direction and speed.
In the top right-hand corner of the box containing the weather is a small circular arrow where if you press it, it will update all the weather straight from your lockscreen.
Mail:
Within the mail part of this app, you can show as many different emails as you want and how many of the message from each one you want to show. Again you scroll through them. On the top it will display which email address the message was sent to and if you double click on that, you can quickly shuffle through all the email address you have selected to show.
Also, if you click on a specific email, a box will pop up allowing you to read the full email, see who it is from, delete it and launch the mail app (you still need to enter PIN code if you have one).
In the settings, within the Intelliscreen app on your SpringBoard, of the mail section you can select which email addresses you want to show, which order you would like them to come up in and how many of the emails you want to be shown (only new messages, 10 recent messages etc). Plus you can also turn on/off ‘Tap to Check Mail’ meaning you can tell it to download the new emails all from the lockscreen.
SMS:
For the SMSs, you can choose how many of the messages you want to show (only new messages, 10 recent messages etc). Also, as for the emails, if you click on the SMS you can view the 
message who its from, mark as unread, delete it and launch the SMS app (if you have a PIN code you still need to imput it).
If you click on the SMS on the lockscreen, it does make it on the SMS app that the SMS has been read.
Calendar:
This displays all your events within your calendar. You can select it to show only things for today, today tomorrow, upcoming week etc. You can also choose which calendars (if you have multiple calendars) to show up.
As in the SMS and Email part of it, if you click on the event that you have programmed into the device, you can see the name of it, location and times that it finishes and ends.
News & Sports
This is my second favorite box you can add. This one gives you all the top or latest headlines from the feeds that you want. They have preprogrammed ones such as Yahoo! Most Emailed or ABC News but you can also add in your own custom RSS feed that you want to see.
There is also a circular arrow on this box so that you can update the headlines from the lockscreen. You can also customize how many of the items you want displayed, whether you want Google API for Safari and whether you want it to update every so often.
If you click on the selected item it will show you the full article on the corresponding feed’s website.
For the sports feeds, you can see news from:
- ESPN Major League Baseball
- ESPN National Football League
- ESPN National Basketball Assoc
- ESPN National Hockey League
- ESPN NCAA Men’s Football
- ESPN NCAA Women’s Basketball
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As well as displaying all the above thing on the lockscreen, Intelliscreen also gives you ‘IntelliAlerts’ meaning you get little icons appear on the status bar showing if you have an email, SMS or missed call. You can also select a reminder frequency, alert Quiet Time and which sound you want for the alerts.
Intelliscreen also comes with 10 different skins to choose from plus you can add your own by inputting the address of where it can be downloaded on the web. Intelliscreen also allows you to edit the time between when you last touch the screen in the lockscreen and when the screen turns off.
With a swipe of the time on the lockscreen, your Intelliscreen will disappear into a small button placed under the time saying ‘Intelliscreen’. If you want it to show again, simply click on that button. Intelliscreen also has the ability to have two pages of its boxes. You rotate between them simply by double-clicking the time.
IntelliScreen DOES need a jailbroken phone to use and if you don’t have a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch, RockYourPhone actually have software which will add their ‘Rock.app’, an Installer-esque application, where you can buy all RockYourPhone’s creations. You can download this software from HERE (you need to sign in).
If your iPhone/iPod Touch is already jailbroken, I would recommend you download the ‘Rock Extensions’ and ‘RockApp’ from the ModMyI source from Cydia. This does the same thing as the above software except easier.
This brilliant app is $9.99 and is a must-have on all iPhone/iPod Touchs in my opinion. If you want to try it out, you can download a free trial from HERE before buying.
I am confident that everyone who buys will not be disappointed. Get it now from $9.99!
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