Great Smart Phone Apps You Didn't Know About

Just imagine what it would be like if we didn't have smartphones. We would need a phone, a videogame player, a television, an MP3 player and a laptop. And that is only a very limited listing of everything that smart phone apps do for us. Our lives wouldbe infinitely poorer if we didn't have them. But perhaps, a lot of people out there don't really realize how good smart phone apps are. They don't realize how many things there are out there that they never knew about.

Of course, if you're an artist or an engineer or a doctor or something, there are a number of super-specialized apps that could transform your life. If you don't know about those, you won't be really missing out. We, on the other hand,are talking about apps that matter to all of us. You really need to know about what smart phone apps there are out there today that anyone on earth could use and find very useful. Let's look at a few of those.

For instance, how many people know that any camera-enabled smart phone is now a scanner and PDF converter? That's right, you can take a picture of a newspaper or a business card or any document, and right away, a two-dollar app like TurboScan can turn it into a clean scanned document. If you have an app like CardScan, it will even file your card away on your virtual Rolodex.

A couple of years ago, the New York Times star tech reviewer David Pogue made a huge deal about how there was this little pocket device that could not only connect to the Internet through 3G, it could act as a hotspot and connect any laptop in the area through Wi-Fi as well. It was amazing back then.

Today, you can create a mobile hotspot with your smartphone just like that. You can connect to the Internet on your smartphone, and anyone could go on it. Of course, this one isn't a smart phone app - its a feature.

Have you tried the Google Goggles app for Android phones? Goggles is an app that will identify any object for you. One day, it can maybe just take a picture of anyone walking on the street and you'd know everything about them. For now, you can snap a picture of any painting, any building, any storefront and so on - and Google will scour the Internet for what it is and bring you an answer. That's a killer feature.

A lot of TV stations come with their own special apps. Download it, you get access to that channel. There are lots of Internet service providers who offer apps for the streaming all kinds of channels, too. The best part is, the best app probably hasn't been made yet.