Saturday, July 10, 2010

Essential Apps for your Mobile

I am sure you have a mobile phone, don't you? Well, everybody has it coz we cannot live without it anymore. How else can you tweet on the go and Foursquare would look a very stupid idea without a mobile phone. Most of us spend a lot of time pressing those tiny buttons or moving our fingers across that 'touchy' screen. So what do you do on that phone? You surely don't make calls or type texts whole day long! You either surf the internet or use some cool apps for tweeting or productivity or whatever! So here's a list of some apps which help you just do that.

1. Opera Mini

This is by far the best web browser for a mobile phone. Opera Mini 5 has speed dials, supports tabbed browsing and comes with pretty good download manager. It's available for all major mobile OS including Java, Symbian, iOS,
Alternatives: Bolt, Teashark, UCWeb.

2. Twitter

Nowadays, everybody tweets. Its more likely than not, that you use twitter too. While the Twitter mobile site is quite nice but it has some limitations and the biggest one is the inability to add a comment when you retweet somebody's tweet. Well, the Twitter clients come to our rescue. There are many of them (infact, too many!) and you may choose one according to your OS and your style. But my picks are:
Symbian and J2ME: Twibble
Blackberry: Twitter for Blackberry
iOS: TweetDeck

3. IM Client

Most of us use one IM service or the other while some use more than one. For single IM users, their respective IM sites provide them with their mobile clients. Multi-IM users have a choice between numerous IM clients. You may use any one out of Fring, Nimbuzz, Palringo, eBuddy, IM+ etc. But My fav is Fring.

4.File Explorer

To manage files efficiently on your mobile, you can use a file manager. I recommend Y-browser for Symbian and File Explorer for
J2ME phones.

5. Skype

Skype is a very good service to save on your telephone bill. Skype provides apps for Symbian, Blackberry and iPhone.

6. Maps

If you use a Nokia smartphone, you already have Ovi maps installed on your phone. Ovi Maps are the best Maps application with Free voice navigation for your GPS enabled Nokia. For others, Google Maps is quite good.

Bonus Apps:

6. Youtube mobile app:
Watch Youtube videos directly on your phone.

7. Snaptu:
Lovely app with Facebook, Twitter, Techcrunch, Engadget, Weather, Cricinfo, Sudoku, Picasa, Flickr, Blogs and much more.

8. Ebook Reader:
My choice is Mobipocket while you may pick one you like.

9. Battery Opitimizer

10. Thesaurus