Verizon iPhone Apps
You’ll need apps for your new iPhone from Verizon Apple and there are hundreds of thousands to choose from; around 300,000 at a guess with more hitting the market daily. Verizon is interested in marketing its own VCast Rhapsody app for music and charging you for it, but of course there are other ways to listen to music of your choice through your iPhone.
Some of the most popular apps are, of course, Netflix and the game Angry Birds, but when you’re tired of those, you might want to download Dropbox. This is great as you can access all the files you have on your computer wherever you are. Set up an account and download the box on your computer, then get this iPhone app and you can save files from your PC and iPhone to Dropbox server. You can then access the files from both devices, freeing up space on your hard drive and letting you send files to your iPhone, like MP3 photos and PDFs. It’s free, so there are no hidden costs and you can work from anywhere.
Google Mobile App is probably the easiest way to search the mobile web. If you’re not in a position to type what you’re looking for in the search box, you can just say what you need into the iPhone’s microphone, and Google will do its best to figure out what you want and track it down for you. If you switch to Google Goggles and point your camera at an object or scene you’d like to identify, then it will try to identify what you’re looking at. In this way, you can also have it scan product barcodes or even solve a difficult Sudoku for you.
The Dictionary app is useful if you don’t want to carry a hardcover volume with you. This app is as good, if not better, than a dictionary and very useful for quickly finding the meaning of unfamiliar words.
The Facebook app allows you to upload photos and browse, as well as alert your friends to your whereabouts so they can meet up if you want. It’s free, of course, and if you feel lonely while traveling, it allows you to stay in close contact with other people in your social network.
If you’re one of those people who hears a song and then wonders who the artist is, then the Shazam app is for you. “Listen” to a snippet of a song or piece of music, then identify the song and singer in seconds. You’ll never have to ask your long-suffering friends “who’s singing this?” again.
Another app that might come in handy is the Google Translate app, which can somehow translate 50 languages into English. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing.
There are apps for everyone, whether free or cheap, so find the ones that are right for you.