Friday, November 6, 2009

What is a mobile application?

Mobile applications are add-on software for hand-held devices, such as smart phones and personal digital assistants (PDA). In the initial days when applications came into markets they were only for entertainment purpose like a game, an audio video player or something that turns the screen of our phone into (for example) a functioning piano keyboard.

Recently though, useful applications have become popular. These include programs for tracking expenses, foreign language phrase books, location detectors and currency converters. Other applications provide reviews of nearby restaurants, lists of local events, or audio walking tours of tourist sites, which require an Internet connection. The GPS application available in smart mobile phones helps us to reach our destinations in new places.

Music and video player related applications such as real player, smart movie player etc. can play all formats of audio and video data. One more interesting and thrilling entertainment application is games that made mobile devices more popular in smaller age groups.

In the month of July 2009, just one year from the time of their launch, 1.5 billion mobile applications were downloaded from the Apple Inc.'s website for iPhone or iPod Touch. This huge, unexpected growth has prompted more and more manufacturers to join the mobile application race.

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