You’ve taken the plunge and bought your first iPhone. You’ve activated your service with your local wireless carrier, connected and synced it with your main computer for the first time, and brought over as much music, photos, and videos as you can squeeze onto it. Maybe you’ve even played around with Apple’s default apps a bit.
“Now what?” you may be asking yourself. “I’ve heard about all the great apps that are available for the iPhone, but where do I start?”
That’s a very good question, and it’s one that gets harder and harder to answer the more apps make their way into Apple’s App Store. With hundreds of thousands of apps now available for the iPhone, it may seem overwhelming trying to sift through them all if this is your first few hours with an iPhone.
Not to worry, because we’ve got you covered. We put our heads together and came up with a list of the apps you should install first on your brand-new, factory-fresh iPhone. Keeping in mind that people from all over the world use iPhones and read TUAW, we excluded from consideration any apps that don’t have full international functionality. This meant leaving a number of very cool and useful apps out of consideration, but we wanted to make sure this is a list that applies to everyone, not just US or UK readers. We also kept this list pretty simple; if you’re familiar with the way iTunes separates music collections into The Basics, Next Steps, and Deep Cuts, you’ll see that we very much went for The Basics for this go-around.
Click “Read More” to see the full list of recommended apps for first-time iPhone users and our rationale for choosing each one.
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10 apps you should install FIRST on your iPhone originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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