Apple Thoughts: Competition for Fandango on the iPhone: MovieFone

Hot on the heels of Fandango, AOL has released Moviefone, a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Moviefone can find your nearest theaters, movie times, trailers, and in some cases you can buy tickets.

There are some issues such as not being able to buy tickets at all locations and theaters in search may or may not be the closest one to you. But MovieFone has some nice features, such as being able to touch the phone number for the theater to call it, and linking to your address book if you want to get a group together to go with you to the movie. And you can't beat the price.