Hit the Mobile Malls: Apps Shopping Centers

Types of Applications
To keep track of the myriad apps available, vendors have created a number of general categories into which each fits. Because a given app may have more than one distinct feature, it is not uncommon for it to appear in multiple categories.

Travel
Travel apps are among the most popular. When combined with the device’s GPS function, they can help you find your way in unfamiliar locations by pinpointing your current location and helping you find a particular address or business. Some can be used to translate into another language or convert currency. Some travel apps adapt to wherever you might be whereas others cover a specific location such as ones that provide up-to-the-minute information for a city’s subway routes and schedules. Navigation apps are related to travel apps particularly in that they are generally based on GPS information. They can help you find the least expensive gasoline within a given distance or provide live traffic cam feeds.

Finance
Finance applications can help you keep track of personal expenses and even help you stay within a budget. Some are related to particular banks and can assist you in paying bills, locating an ATM locally, or transferring money. Other financial apps will allow to access real-time stock market information on the markets of your choice.

Productivity
Productivity apps can help you make the most of both business and personal facets of life. Among the most useful ones are apps that will help keep track of schedules and plans. You can, in effect, expand your own memory using your mobile device because it will never forget an appointment you’ve entered. Many business applications have similar features but also give uniquely enterprise uses like charging a customer’s credit card, processing orders, or keeping track of your billable hours.

Reference
The many reference applications can be especially helpful and an entire library of material is available on your handheld. Whether you need a dictionary, a thesaurus, or an encyclopedia, there are apps that can meet your needs. There are apps in this category that will alert you aware to world holidays or make of unit of measure conversions instantly. Information about the world’s geography, governments, economy, and infrastructure are at your fingertips.

Healthcare and Fitness
The healthcare and fitness applications can be invaluable in keeping track of diet and exercise activities or help you plan nutritious meals. At the high end of this category, there are even apps which are designed for nurses or trauma physicians to provide current information about symptoms and treatments.

Entertainment
Entertainment generally is huge among mobile apps. Just as anything can be entertaining to the right person, there’s no telling what you might find in this category. Music, movies, sports—absolutely—but they’re big enough that they also have categories all to themselves. Games. Magic tricks. You can find apps that will amaze family and friends. Even if you just want to daydream, there are apps that will help in the effort.