Cell Phone Applications

The first thing I’ve noticed about my classes is that there is a lot of emphasis about ongoing changes in the media. It’s very obvious that almost everything is going digital, but I didn't realise how much cell phone applications are changes the way we view our media. My current cell phone is an LG neon so I have basically no applications on it, however I have been looking for a new phone. I never really saw the point in applications, since I was used to using a mobile browser to navigate through the internet, but after a brief discussion in class I want to experiment with application use. I looked up a few interesting applications for the apple iPhone 3, they seem to all be very useful as a convenience to avoid surfing the internet for specific sites. Some of the more interesting applications I came across deal with language translation and long distance video communication. Personally I enjoy the interesting little applications; one I found very interesting is a song detector. With this application you can hold your phone close to a speaker playing a song, and the application will tell you the name of the song and the band that plays it, then direct you to download site where you can buy it! After looking over all the interesting applications I’m defiantly going to check out a Smartphone next time I go look for a new phone.