If you just got your iPhone and want to know the most popular apps out there to grab as a sort of “starter kit”, here they are…
Google Earth
Besides being practical, useful and well crafted, Google Earth is also one of the funnest apps to play around with. If you find yourself on a bus or the train with some time to kill, just look up your coordinates and zoom in and out of your city. It turns walking around town into a video game.
Angry Birds
The hottest cell phone game out there right now. Angry Birds is addictive, well designed, colorful, fun and fast paced. It’s perfectly designed to be played for a few minutes at a time, or a few hours, and well worth the download.
Wikipedia
The Wikipedia app is like having the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in real life. All the information in the world is right there in your pocket.
Weather Channel
This one is just plain practical: you want to be able to check on the weather at any time of day so that when you get rained on, you have someone to blame!
Amazon
Amazon’s app has only gotten more popular with the invention of the Kindle. Now you can buy a book and have it in your hands, anywhere in the world, with just a few taps.
Photoshop Express
If you never really learned how to use the full-sized Adobe Photoshop, the pocket edition is just what you need. You can automatically remove red-eye, sharpen and so on. It’s Photoshop in Easy Mode and works instantly with a few taps.
Hipstamatic
This cool little app lets you take photos that looks like anything you want. If you want to take a photo that looks like grainy old black and white footage, a propaganda shot from the Soviet Union or an overexposed pic, this app lets you put your camera in a “costume” so to speak.
This one is popular for, well, obvious reasons.
Facebook
It’s Facebook. You love it, you hate it, you need it.
Netflix
Say what you will about the idea of watching a movie on your phone, but when you’re stuck in a traffic jam, at an airport or waiting in a long line, being able to watch Twin Peaks from anywhere in the world doesn’t sound like such a bad idea.