Shopping today’s mobile market is akin to making a visit to a big box store: an overwhelming amount of options. Deciding on your next app purchase might not pose itself as a major decision, but purchasing the wrong apps, or ignoring essential apps for your device, is a major disadvantage in a soon to be exclusively mobile world.
Each operating system (OS) in the mobile market relies on a handful of proprietary or mission critical apps that accomplish all of your basic needs. Specifically, based on the common uses of mobile devices, all OSs provide the most comprehensive email, file sharing and contact networking apps in order to give customers the basic tools they need to get the most out of their devices.
Customers transitioning straight from Web applications to their smart device will mostly like be entering the market with a bias towards their most trusted products. Google and Microsoft all offer products that can be accessed online as well as on a mobile device. Products like email services with congruent cloud drives and proprietary social networks have grown with mobile technology and are accurately replicated and developed further on mobile devices.
While products like Google find themselves spanning across all mobile markets, OSs like Windows Phone and iOS also feature their own clients for conventional applications. Both iOS and Windows Phone feature unified clients for email services. This means that both iOS and Windows Phone allow you to use their email clients with whatever email service you use — requiring you to link your accounts to the OS specific client.
Even though it might seem like an easy decision to download apps you use already (i.e., Gmail), clients for specific brands, especially competitive OSs, is not necessarily the best idea for your mobile device. Phone memory will always be factored into the pros and cons of downloading an app, but these unified clients do not just keep your device’s memory clean. Unified email clients are developed to be the most efficient option for your device. Therefore, given your OS, linking accounts to a unified client might be the best option opposed to downloading a third party client for a product you use all of the time.
The following round up features a collection of essential apps for device divided by operating system. Chose your OS from the following list, or browse the entire collection to view cross over apps.
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