by Adam Zarboni

Top free software for your Smartphone: Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Windows Mobile and Nokia

IPhone

1) Where

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=281790044&mt=8

Where is the nearest coffee shop? Where can you find a book store? Where is your travel partner? Use Where to find out all these things and more!

2) iTalk Recorder for iPhone

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=293673304&mt=8

Everyday, keeping track of meetings and phone calls has become important. With an increasingly mobile world it is either impossible or very hard to bring a recorder everywhere. The iTalk Recorder takes notes on the run or even can record a meeting. Created by Griffin, they even offer a Sync application for your desktop.

3) Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/mobile.html

Bloomberg makes it easy to track individual stocks, or get up to date reports on the Dow Jones, TSX, NASDAQ, and many more. With an imbedded news section you can stay on top of all the current business and financial news. Visually the program is great, and makes great use of the iPhone's interface. (Also available for Palm OS)

4) JiWire's Global FREE Wi-Fi app

http://www.jiwire.com/search-hotspot-locations.htm

Using iPhone’s GPS and network triangulation capabilities, this app locates free Wi-Fi Internet access from a store of locals that are updated daily. Sometimes you can’t live your iLife from just your iPhone, use this to stay connected!

5) Imeem

http://www.imeem.com/mobile/iphone/

The best music site on the net just got better! Imeem.com offers this app to keep you listening to the best tunes, Forgot your favorite CD at home? Discover new gems and revisit golden oldies without paying a cent.

Blackberry

1) Stock Viewer

http://www.microhill.com/product-stockview.asp

Stock Viewer is designed to give you current stock quotes through the Blackberry. It even displays quotes in colors. You can add and save your favorites easily. Headline news from major resources is also available.

2) Viigo

http://viigo.com/home

A free RSS reader, Viigo sends only the news you want in the format you need. With a great layout and its ease of use, you can’t loose!

3) Google Mobile

http://www.google.com/mobile/blackberry

Google for the mobile world, great layout for Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar. It also links up to all your favorite Google search engines, and syncs up to your iGoogle account.

4) BBNotePad

http://www.coolove.pcriot.com/

Write full length .txt documents that can be saved to a SD card or to your Blackberry itself. Although it does not come with a dictionary, it does allow you to compose documents that can be read on any PC. With a Bluetooth enabled device, sending those files over just became that much easier!

5) TwitterBerry

http://orangatame.com/ota/twitterberry/

Turn your BlackBerry into a great social networking tool. Keep your followers up to date with your happenings, share links, post Tweets, and follow your colleagues.

For the top five free apps for your Window Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian OS visit http://www.execdigital.com/

Top Five for Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian OS.

1) Video

http://vemode.coreforge.org/

VEMoDe (The Video Encoder for Mobile Devices)

The absolute best video encoder and it’s free. Convert your videos on your home computer for playback on your mobile screen. Supports specific screen sizes, and formats. Install on your PC, and experience its incredible ease of use. iPhone and many other mobile devices come with players, but here is a solution for transferring your favorite movies and videos into a size and format that works!

2) For playback, many phones now come as DivX enabled, but the TCPMP player is a great solution for your Palm, Windows Mobile, and Pocket PC. The freeware version is still on the web, just type it into a search engine and away you go!

3) Mobi Pocket Reader and Plucker 

This e-book reader can read many of the basic e-book reader formats. It is also easily integrated into both Symbian, Palm, Windows and BlackBerry OS.

Plucker

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/ProductDetailsReader.asp

A reader originally developed for Palm, this offers all the bell’s and whistles that Mobi can’t. Great for the touch screen user and it doesn’t eat your battery! Available for Palm OS and Windows Mobile.

4) Free eBooks for your mobile life (all systems)

Of course, you’ll want some free books to go with your new e-book reader app! Project Gutenberg offers over 30,000 free books on its main site with more than 100,000 available through its partners. Books become public domain between 50-70 years after an author’s death, so many classic authors can be found here. http://www.plkr.org/

5) Symbian

Mobile Office for S60 2nd Edition: http://www.symbian-freeware.com/download-mobile-office-for-s60-2nd-edition.html

Freeware office application for your Symbian OS, mostly on your Nokia smartphones. Lets you edit and create Word and other office documents on the go!