Smartphone Apps – Five Top picks

Smartphones are the future of communications. We already notice its increasing impact on our daily lives as far as keeping in touch with the world on the go is concerned.

Smartphone applications or simply Apps, are your window to the world and reflect your personal tastes and choices.

What are Apps?

Smartphone Apps are the customized programs that make the smartphone experience worthwhile by giving you easy accessibility to various functions that ease your mobile experience. They can be loaded on any mobile, be it BlackBerry, iPhone, Droid, or any other smart phone. They increase the accessibility to various multimedia services like hooking on to the internet, directly connecting to the facebook, reading your email directly while on the move, etc. These Apps help in customizing your mobile and make it nothing short of a computer on the move.

While you get many packaged along with the phone when you buy it, there are many that you can download from various online stores. The best part of Smartphone Apps is that most of them are free. For e.g. Apple’s on line store has around 200,000 apps you could download. Similarly Google’s Android store boasts of around 600,000! There are many others that have various unique Smartphone Applications that would attract any user.

Here is a list of five top Apps that are a must for any smartphone enthusiast -

SPB TV – This is the top pick for Windows Mobile Smartphone and gives you streaming TV channels of your choice.

Viigo – Are you fond of keeping in touch with the latest news from various news channels? If so, this is the app for you. It also provides Twitter updates.

Slacker Radio – Just like the more famous app Pandora, this app helps you customize your phone to double up as a radio station. Its free version has almost four million songs and with the paid service you could also get many interesting add-ons.

Dolphin Web Browser — A multi touch browser that makes surfing on Android phones faster.

Dragon Dictation — This is a voice-command app that allows the users to dictate messages and converts them into text.

Smartphone Apps are intrinsic to improving your social networking and entertainment experience on the mobile. They allow you to experience the full feature capability of your mobile and make an enriching contribution to your life.