Last week, I took a look at the application for the iPhone made for the social voting site Reddit. Appropriately called ‘reddit,” though not an official app, it does a nice job of showcasing and giving you access to the most popular stories on Reddit at any given time. One feature it did not have however, was the ability to vote on stories. A new app, Satellite, another application built for Reddit, set to be released shortly, brings this feature.

Just as with its rival Digg, voting is a key part of Reddit. And so it really doesn’t make sense to have an iPhone app that only allows you to browse stories and not vote on them. And while the reddit application developer Joseph Pintozzi assures me that voting will be coming to his app eventually (along other new features that he wouldn’t elaborate on), Satellite will have the feature on launch.

And that’s not all. Satellite also features a slightly nicer user interface than reddit. It shows the vote counts next to every story before you click on it to read it. And it also feature a simple interface to add comments to a story or to email a link to the story to a friend. And most importantly, it features a simple up or down arrow below each story to vote it either up or down.

Satellite also gives you access to all of the sub-Reddits (special Reddit pages with a specific topic) that you subscribe to. The reddit application only gave you access to the most popular sub-Reddits, but because you actually sign in to your Reddit account with Satellite (so you can vote and comment), it pulls in all your sub-Reddit preferences as well.

But there are two downsides to this app. First, it hasn’t been approved in the App Store yet. Developer Blake Watters seems confident this will happen, and I don’t see any reason why it would be rejected, but it’s been under review for a few days now and still isn’t in the store (though, as many developers will tell you, this is pretty normal). Second, and more importantly, Satellite will be $4.99. That’s a lot more than the $0.99 that the Reddit app costs (and commenters were still complaining about).

Still, if you’re an absolute Reddit addict, I have to recommend Satellite over the first reddit app for right now. It simply has more features and functionality — but you will have to pay for it.

I assume you’ll be able to find Satellite in the App Store some time next week.

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