If you take a look at the lists of most downloaded apps for any mobile OS, you will find a lot of games and entertainment applications, but nothing really productive. There are now over 1 million mobile apps available across the major app platforms. Searching for the right app for you in this sea of options could be a nightmare. What applications should you have:
Skype(Free)
If you're traveling outside the US but don't want to return home to a crazy big cell-phone bill, rely on Skype's mobile phone app, which allows you to make low-cost calls over the internet instead of using your cell-phone provider's costly per-minute international plan. Pair Skype with free Wi-Fi in the hotel lobby or cafe of your choice, and you can phone landlines or other cell phones for just pennies and other Skype customers for free.
Evernote (iphone & iPad/Android/Windows Phone 7/Blackberry) Free
Evernote is a fantastic app for taking notes. It allows users to add personal notes, photos, voice recordings and content from websites. It syncs between different devices, so it can be accessed from anywhere at any time. It is a great tool for cutting paper clutter, saving inspirational findings or having important documents always at hand.
Mobile Browsing: Saying that mobile browsing technologies will be heavily used in the future sounds a little bit like stating the obvious. But as Gartner notes, mobile browsing capabilities currently exist only on 60% of handsets today. By 2013, that number will climb to 80%, meaning that those who are still using the app-less,more basic feature phones will still be joining the mobile web in mass numbers over the coming years. That's also good news for web developers who can build mobile web applications to cater to this bunch as opposed to focusing all their efforts into building apps for the numerous mobile platforms like the iphone, Android, RIM, and others.
GateGuru(Free)
Hungry, but don't have a lot of time between flights? Finished your book and need a new one for the next leg of your trip? Maybe you just want to find the nearest ATM. Skip the giant wall map of the airport terminal. Before you deplane from your first flight, get the lay of the airport land with GateGuru. The app offers gate-by-gate lists of restaurants, shops and services in, most (for now) US and Canadian airports.
Mobile Search: No, mobile search isn't new, but on the mobile platform, it may get shaken up a bit. Gartner predicts that consumers won't necessarily be sticking with the search services they know and use on the Web (think Google, Bing, Yahoo) and instead experiment with using a few different search providers that have "unique technologies" for mobile search. While that statement is a little vague, it sounds like good news for services like Taptu who have entered this field with search offerings designed from the ground-up for mobile devices.
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