You probably can’t find too many of those vintage 1950s photobooths these days. If you’re over 30, you might remember them in carnivals, bus stations, five and dime stores, and amusement parks. They were usually just big enough to fit two people, and when you inserted your coins, the built-in camera would fire off four photos that would be instantly processed and printed on a single strip. Photobooths may be hard to find, but you can now actually carry one around in your pocket, in the form of a iPhone app. It’s appropriately called Pocketbooth ($.99), and it really does replicate the vintage style, spontaneity, and instant feedback of analog booths. The app is also optimized for the iPad, and you only pay for it once to have it installed on both platforms. We’ve written about similar cheesy photobooth-like apps and effects before, including one called Cheese Photo Booth, but Pocketbooth is about as real as it gets. The app was picked as a Starbucks App of the Week in 2012, and it has been featured as both a newsworthy and “Hottest Apps” in the iTunes App Store. Now Pocketbooth for iPhone has made it to our Best of iPhone Apps page. Main Features When you launch Pocketbooth, it starts off asking for permission to use your current location. This is a standard request for a photo apps if you want the GPS location data embedded in your photos. You can always disable this feature in the Settings app on your iPhone (Privacy > Location Servic
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