Best Windows Mobile applications

Great applications for Twitter, Facebook and more

Windows Mobile was the original smartphone OS and it inherited years of applications from the Pocket PC.
Phone manufacturers and mobile operators include a handful of apps on new devices but there are literally thousands of other Windows Mobile apps out there.
The problem is that there's no one place to look for apps: as well as the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile and the Handango store, there are hundreds of mobile software developers, large and small, with their own sites. Bellow you will get some best Windows Mobile applications - and where to find them.

1. Skyfire

Skyfire could easily be the best mobile browser so far; it renders full web pages, including Flash, Silverlight, JavaScript, CSS and PDF - so it works with YouTube and BBC iPlayer and Google Docs and Hotmail, just like a real PC browser.
Double-tap on the page (or double-click if you don't have a touch-screen) and it zooms intelligently to show you the picture, sidebar or paragraph you want. And you can get Facebook, Twitter and RSS updates on the start page. Worth using Windows Mobile for!

2. MyPhone
MyPhone is a free service from Microsoft which backs up your contacts, calendar items, tasks, text messages, browser Favorites, photos, videos, music file and documents onto a web site (so you can read texts on the web or upload music to your phone without plugging it in).
Get a new phone and put the MyPhone client on it and all your information downloads automatically. Plus, if you think you've lost your phone you can see where it last synced from on a map (or pay $5 to see the current location, make it ring, lock it or wipe it). The only disadvantage is that you're limited to 200MB.
MyPhone
3. Skype
Free phone calls on your mobile phone: what's not to like? There are plenty of VOIP services you can use on your phone, like Fring, but Skype still has the advantage of numbers.
You get free calls to Skype numbers, free IMs and free file transfers to other Skype users plus cheaper calls to standard numbers and cheaper texts to international numbers (or home if you're roaming); but you'll want to make sure you're on a Wi-Fi connection or you're paying for the data (and probably not getting great sound quality).
Skype
4. Facebook
Microsoft's Facebook app shows you updates from friends, incoming messages and your own profile details.
You can send a message or phone any friend who's put their number in Facebook, and you can update your status or upload photos and videos. You can't import the numbers into your address book, click links in updates or make comments - though you can click through to someone's profile and write on their wall.

5. Google Maps
Even if you don't have GPS on your phone, Google Maps can find you (with varying accuracy); you can search for nearby businesses or addresses, get directions to walk or drive to your destination (though not live, turn-by-turn directions) and see what the traffic is like or get the satellite view or street-level photos to help you work out how the map relates to the street you're on. Sign up for Latitude and Google Maps will broadcast your location, too.
Gmaps
6. Bing
Bing, the app formerly known as Windows Live Search, still does the same thing: locates you by GPS or cell tower, shows you maps, finds addresses and businesses and gives you directions.

Bing
7. Evernote
Jot down a note on your phone, look it up on your Mac or PC, or any web browser and vice versa; Evernote lets you type in, handwrite, take a photo, record a voice message or upload a file from your mobile and tag it so it's easier to find. You have to be online to look up notes from your phone but the free version is amazing value.

8. TinyTwitter
TinyTwitter is a full featured Twitter client with an innovative collapsing interface, so you can see as many messages on screen as possible. You can load links in your favourite browser, and tweets can be collected at set intervals - or you can find out what's popular and who's tweeting nearby. Turn off the extra-loud alerts for new tweets, though.
TinyTwitter

9. Viigo
Viigo is a lot more than an RSS reader, with links to umpteen feeds in dozens of categories (and you can add your own feeds). You can also listen to podcasts (with excellent audio quality), read ebooks from DailyLit, download games, check if your flight is on time or your route to work has a traffic jam - and tweet any news stories that particularly take your fancy.
Viigo
10. DiVX Mobile
The Samsung Omnia was one of the first DiVX-certified phones, but you can put DiVX onto most Windows Mobile devices with DiVX Mobile. It's a simple interface - a thumbnail list of videos, a menu of standard settings - but videos play back clean, clear and crisp. Unzip the download file to install from your PC (or copy the CAB across).

11. Travelling Blogger
There are blogging clients for most blog platforms (LJNote is good for LiveJournal), but Travelling Blogger is one of the best for WordPress and other blogs supported by the MetaWeb interface. You can post to multiple blogs, inserting HTML codes and media and picking the category to publish to.
Travelling blogger
12. Photoshop.com Mobile
Photoshop.com lets you upload images through your browser (you get 2GB of free storage), tag and edit them; once you've signed up for a free account you can download the free Windows Mobile Photoshop client and use it to upload photos from your phone and view photos you've uploaded with your browser (but not edit them).
Photoshop mobile
13. Gsync
You can get Gmail on Windows Mobile just by setting up your email account, but you'll only get mail every five minutes; if you want mail as it arrives, set up the Google Sync service and you'll get your Google contacts and Google calendar as well. Warning; as with everything from Google, it's a beta and can have problems.
Gsync
14. Shake and Save
Shake and Save is a little bit silly but useful, too. If your Windows phone has an accelerometer, you can shake it briskly to take a screenshot - which is a handy way of saving web pages, maps and other things you want to take note of on screen.

15. Kevtris
There are plenty of games for Windows Mobile, but not that many excellent games that are free. Kevtris is an addictive Tetris clone, with both the classic game and versions with odd-shaped blocks, sliders that let you push blocks to fill in gaps or both.
Kevtris

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