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Top apps for Windows Phone

More and more cross the pond over to Windows Phone every week.

By Jenneth Orantia on Dec 20 2012, 4:45PM

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LinkedIn translates beautifully to Windows Phone's Metro interface, and it's actually a lot nicer to use than the iOS and Android versions.

The Facebook app offers a few Windows Phone-specific goodies such as lockscreen integration (it can display photos in a particular album on your lockscreen) and the ability to pin Messages to the start screen.

A new addition to the Windows Phone fold, WhatsApp offers free messaging to all of the other mobile platforms (even BlackBerry), with support for photos, audio, video and group messages.

It isn't as good as the Evernote clients on other platforms, but if most of your notes are in Evernote already, this native Windows Phone client is better than nothing. Our main gripe is that it only supports plain text.

Yet another app that looks better on Windows Phone than it does on other platforms, IMDb is the must-have resource for looking up movies, TV shows, actors and directors.

Zite is one of the most popular news-reading apps for iOS and Android. The Windows Phone version isn't as polished, but it's nevertheless one of the best options for catching up on the latest news for various topics.

Until Spotify releases a Windows Phone client and Rdio improves its existing app, JB Hi-Fi Now is your best bet for unlimited music streaming on Windows Phone. There's a free one-month trial, after which it costs $10 a month.

The Qantas app is a coup for Windows Phone, as neither iOS nor Android has an equivalent app for this airline. This app makes travelling with Qantas a cakewalk, delivering push notifications for check-in times, flight status updates, and the ability to pin upcoming flights to your start screen.

Sadly, the latest TripView Sydney update that adds real-time bus tracking to the iOS and Android apps hasn't made its way to Windows Phone yet, but otherwise, it's a cracker of an app for getting around on public transport.

The number one internet radio app works wonderfully on Windows Phone. You can pin your favourite radio stations to the start screen, swipe across to move between the now playing screen, lineup and Twitter feed, and pause the live stream.

goCatch is our taxi booking app of choice. You can see on a map where the nearest taxis are, and you can even pick the one you want based on their star rating.

If you have an Xbox 360, the Xbox SmartGlass app is a no-brainer. It turns your Windows Phone into a remote control for navigating through the Xbox dashboard, and if you're playing supported games, music or movies, you'll see bonus related content in the app.

When it comes to tracking cardio activity, Runtastic Pro is one of the best in the business. It support multiple activity types and intensities, background music playback, live tracking, and heart-rate monitor support.

The powerful Plex client app works a treat for streaming photos, music and videos from your home computer over a wi-fi or 3G internet connection.

The SkyDrive app lets you manage the various files and folders in your SkyDrive account. As well as being able to delete, rename and move them around, you can share files with other people by sending them a link to your SkyDrive account.

One of the major oversights in Windows Phone is the inability to pin commonly-used system settings to the start screen. Connection Tiles gets around this shortcoming by giving you a range of icons you can pin for things like airplane mode, Bluetooth, wi-fi, cellular and share status.

Windows Phone lets you pin bookmarks to the start screen, but it uses a screenshot as the site's icon. Bookmark Tile Creator finds likely-looking logos from the website and lets you use one of those as the live tile instead.

If you like your eye candy, you'll love Amazing Weather HD. It has pretty live animations for weather, along with radar and satellite images, and the live tile can be customised with different graphics, sizes and locations.

Until Google deigns to develop an official YouTube client for Windows Phone, Metrotube will have to do in its place. Thankfully, it integrates with YouTube extremely well. You can login to your YouTube account to see your subscriptions, playlists and favourites, and play all of your uploaded videos, and you can also comment on videos and pin videos to your start screen.

No, Windows Phone doesn't have its own Instagram app, but the sophistication of Lomogram's various filters, borders and lighting effects makes its absence a non-issue. Interestingly, there's no share to Flickr option - you can only share finished photos to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Tumblr.

Not a fan of Bing Maps? gMaps Pro is probably the closest you'll ever get to a full-blown Google Maps app, and it works surprisingly well for a third party client.

It's a little tricky to get the hang of at first, but once you master the handful of swipes and gestures, Clearer is a wonderfully-intuitive tasks app that makes even the most complex of to-do lists look manageable.

Out of the dozen or so Twitter clients for Windows Phone, MeTweets offers the best and most reliable experience. Among its many features are multiple account support, lockscreen integration, scheduled tweets and real-time updates.

LinkedIn translates beautifully to Windows Phone's Metro interface, and it's actually a lot nicer to use than the iOS and Android versions.

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