The popularity of Apple’s App Store vaulted mobile apps to prominence, but techies know that mobile phones have been tiny PCs for years now…

The difference today is the buzz and visibility around apps. The idea that you can add to your phone’s powers has gone mainstream…

With 100,000 apps, the iPhone certainly has the most apps available, but there’s no lack of choice on other platforms… Google’s Android phones have more than 10,000. There are thousands for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian phones, and a couple of hundred for the Palm Pre and Pixi.

Even simple phones like the Motorola RAZR can get into the app game.

We’ve sifted through a huge stack of apps to find the best free ones for almost every phone. The only folks left out are owners of Verizon and T-Mobile non-smartphones like the LG enV3 and Nokia 5310. Those carriers forbid you from installing free, third-party apps, although they make a limited selection of paid apps available.

Our list totals 100 apps: 40 for the iPhone, 20 each for BlackBerry and Android, 10 for Windows Mobile, and 10 combined for Palm WebOS, Symbian, and non-smartphones. The iPhone, of course, has more apps than anyone else. BlackBerry is the USA’s dominant smartphone platform. Android is gaining market share while Windows Mobile is losing it. And while Symbian may be popular overseas, those phones are seldom seen on American shores.

• The Top 40 Free Apps for iPhone

• The Top 20 Free Apps for BlackBerry

• The Top 20 Free Apps for Android

• The Top 10 Free Apps for Windows Mobile

• The Top 10 Free Apps For Other Phones ” (via  PCMag.com) by PCMag.com Staff

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The service’s biggest downside is that you have a new number to deal with—but TechCrunch says number porting is coming.

That means you’ll be able to port the phone number you’ve had for 5 or 10 or 100 years to Google Voice and use whatever phone you want, whenever you want, on whatever carrier you want, with your current number—meaning you’ll never have to worry about your phone number again.

Right now, you can kinda hack it by forwarding calls from your current number to your Google Voice number, but you’re stuck with pitfalls like texts not being forwarded. Google’s also got an app cooking that’ll route outbound calls through Google Voice as well, so the service is more seamless—currently, your outbound caller ID is whatever’s actually assigned to the phone you’re using.  ” (via gizmodo.com ) by  Matt Buchanan

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