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How The Most Popular iPhone Apps Benefit The User

By Alice A. Chandler


Over the last few years there has been a huge explosion in iPhone use due to the increased availability and lower prices of contracts. After iPods were so successful, Apple produced a phone in a similar sort of design but you can do so much more than listen to music with the apps on there. Whatever you are wanting to do on your phone, you will find an app for your needs!

The first is of course social networking apps. Every single social network has apps on the iPhone, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. The nature of these networks means that people want to keep up to date at all times, wherever they are and having these on your phone can actually mean people are kept occupied on long journeys such as train journeys. The apps are simplified versions of the pages, so are optimised for the iPhone and load quickly.

Shopping websites are much simpler on the iPhone, with the app versions on the phones being very simple in comparison with the actual websites. Shopping sites like Amazon and Play have cluttered layouts with lots of "special offers" and marketing banners, and on a phone it would be very difficult to navigate on the small screen. What the app does is strip away all the unnecessary stuff and leave you with just the means to find the products you are looking for and buy them.

Another very useful app type is travel apps, which let you check out transportation timetables and statuses nice and quickly. A good example is the Trainline app, which on the computer is an unnecessarily complex website, but on the phone literally lets you see your desired journey in a couple of clicks, and now lets you buy on it too. Going one further, the National Rail app lets you check your train's progress on the way to you.

The iPhone can easily be turned into a radio using the many radio apps that are available. With some apps you can listen to any radio station in the entire world, never mind just the ones in your own country. You really need to be on Wifi and make sure that you don't accidently use it on 3g because it will take up your whole allocation, and your battery will go down very quick!




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