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It’s simple really, iReagan is all Ronald Reagan all the time. More than five years after his death and nearly three years since the launch of the iPhone, the 40th President becomes the first iPhone App specifically developed for a political figure. So far more than two-thousand people have gone to the app store on their iPhone’s to down load the free version of Ronnie and if you want a first hand peek, check above in my Kyte player to see how it looks.

It takes about five minutes to download, but when accessed from your phone, the iReagan app gives the user pictures, video, quotes and even general access and contact information to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Executive Director Duke Blackwood says, “we still take a visionary approach, just like President Reagan did.”

Of course the content is monitored and decided by the folks at the library and because of the sheer magnitude of Presidential stuff, only select items can be shown or made available on the app, thus the ability to contact the library for more help. “It’s all about education. This is just step one and we hope to have classroom on iPod’s and iPhone’s for school kids and teachers. Blackwood says, “we want them to be able to access this information from Michigan, to Miami, to Moscow”.

Speaking of the former Soviet Union, the app was built by a company based here stateside in Florida. However, the actual engineers who worked on it are based in the Ukraine. So former Soviet engineers working for a U.S. company built an iPhone app for the President who called for Mr. Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” It’s no coincidence that you can find famous cold war pictures, speeches and quotes of the President and even some snapped with Gorbachev at his side.

The library actually began the whole process of bringing “the Gipper” to your fingertips about a year and a half ago. Once the information was gathered and the decisions made, it took the engineers about 3 months to get it ready for downloads. Blackwood and those at the library believe that President Reagan is still talked about positively on both sides of the political aisle and “is an icon of the 20th century.” They tell me, “isn’t it great to have Ronald Reagan at your fingertips.”

So what do you think? Check out the iReagan. Are you surprised other political figured didn’t beat them to the phone?
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