<p>If you are a Wegman’s shopper their app is amazing. You populate a grocery list either by searching your previously purchased items (it knows your loyalty card), or store database, or you can just scan the barcode. Everyone in the house has the app synced to the same account so when you add something or stop by the store everyone knows whats needed. You can refill Rx’s also. SO efficient!!!</p>
<p>Also, Redbox, Starbucks (for my gold card! ), Livestrong/MyPlate, Triple A, Fandango (easiest way to pre-buy tickets for our local movie theater), Google translate (family overseas often drift out of English in email and my Danish/Swedish is limited), Tastebook (personal recipebook online that I can access anywhere, like the grocery if I decide on something last minute).</p>
<p>My son has an amazing constellation app for his android. I’ll ask him what it is when he gets home.</p>
<p>Google translate: can translate with voice and save your favorites.
College Confidential
Flixster: current movie trailers, opening this week trailers, movie times and puchase your tickets, plus reviews.
google earth
Trulia
Pinterest</p>
<p>Be careful jail breaking your phone. Im told the only way for you not to get caught is if you have an unlimited data plan from your service provider. If you have a GB restriction, they, (service provider) can see you go over that restriction when using your phone as a Hotspot.</p>
<p>Someone mentioned the app for this site. I don’t really like it although I do have it downloaded. I usually get here via Safari. </p>
<p>I have probably 60 apps on my phone (I’m on my third iPhone) and have them grouped in their own little squares by category. In the finance one I have my bank (Wells Fargo) where I can do mobile deposits and pay bills. I can check recent transactions on my Capital One and American Express apps. </p>
<p>I have several travel apps, including Gas Buddy, Tripadvisor, Yelp, several City Walks, around me, hopstop and local city transportation ones. We live between Philly and NYC so both are handy. I will often download specific city apps when visiting and then delete them after coming back.</p>
<p>I also have book apps including Overdrive to download from two libraries, Kindle, Nook and iBooks.</p>
<p>The best thing I found out early on was to search for apps, you just scroll the main screen to the right until you get to a search bar and then you can find the apps.</p>
<p>abasket - the home screen with apps on the iPhone. You know how you slide the screen with one set of apps to the LEFT to get to the next set of apps? If you instead slide the screen to the RIGHT, you’ll get a search bar with the keypad. It’s a whole phone search and once you start typing it will come up with a list of suggestions including apps, contact names, etc. </p>
<p>For instance if I’m looking for tripadvisor and I just start with “trip” It will give me an address in my recent searches for a town near me, New Tripoli, Tripadvisor, Tripit (great travel app!), and a couple of other things that apparently have trip in them. I can just choose tripadvisor from that instead of looking through my too many apps to find it.</p>
<p>What exactly is meant by “jailbreaking” your phone? I have read/heard of it but don’t understand it well. We do have unlimited data with Sprint.</p>
<p>many people jailbreak their phones to have better control over their phones and get rid of limitation imposed by carriers. Many carriers charge for mobile hotspots, jailbreaking your phone allows you to bypass your carrier, Sprint, Verizon, At and T, etc, and not get charged. It can be done, but remember once you jailbreak your phone, you can void any warranties on your phone because it goes against the Term of Service. But believe me, that does not stop people from doing so.
My daughter had her friend download an app(jailbreaking)bypassing Verizon, that allows her to use her phone as moblie hotspot for her laptop when she use to visit her boyfriend in an areA that there was no WiFi. The Hotspot registers how much data you use because the service provider is supplying 3G/4G service to connect your device. if you are limited to 2G or 3G, you will get charged for going over that amount, so if you are streaming movies or music, that generally uses a lot of data. Unlimited Plans, there is no way to keep track.<br>
Now the poster who is using PDAnet, may have some different information.</p>
<p>Jailbreaking is also done to get upgrades without buying them. I know someone that had a first version of the iPhone but wanted the next version so jailbroke his instead of buying the newer version. He offered to do the same to mine but my husband and sons talked me out of it. A lot of people believe that Apple is way too rigid about their content, especially moneymakers like iTunes.</p>
<p>Interesting. I was under the impression by jail breaking your phone you not only voided your warrantee, you were no longer able to update to any newer iOS releases. Shows what I know (about zip on jbg). :)</p>
<p>I am convinced that a smartphone for me was a waste of money. Sad, eh? After 6 months, my aps include facebook, cc, the weather channel, flashlight (a great one!), and NOAA hi-def weather (also love). </p>
<p>I do love the much better camera. I had T9 texting and was very fast at that, so don’t think texting is really any better on this phone. S1 and S2 also thinks it’s not worth their while. We have the ATT plan with 2-3000g (forget which). We routinely use 5-10…too bad there’s almost no choice in non-smart phones anymore. I look for aps, but don’t seem to find anything that I’ll actually use.</p>
<p>One of my favorite apps, and one that I use the most, is Poynt. It is a 411 (aging myself!) for the phone, easy to use and I have yet to not find the phone number I am looking for, no matter where I am. Others I love are:</p>
<p>Bejeweled
Words with Friends
Epicurious
HopStop and NYC Subway (for New York)
Disney World (lists wait times and crowds at the parks)
TKTS (for NYC)
Skyworld</p>
<p>I just found the most useful feature on my iPhone called Do Not Disturb. It turns my ringer/notices off and on (I have it set for my phone to be silent from 11pm to 6am) but allows phone calls to come through from those on my favorites list (which is only my parents, husband and kids). If the same person calls twice within 3 minutes it also allows the call through.</p>
<p>I just downloaded a coupon app my sister in law told me about - Coupon Sherpa. She has used it a couple of times with success since she recently installed it. The app has a listing of stores on it and you can pull up coupons without having to carry them with you. Also a section to download grocery coupons.</p>
<p>If I look today on Macy’s for example there is a $25 off $100 men’s dept stuff. JCrew has extra 40% off clearance. Barnes and Noble has several. </p>
<p>Will have to try it out when I’m out in the stores. Cashier just has to scan the barcode on the iPhone coupon</p>
<p>I have more then paid for my smartphone (probably three times over) by seeing other people in line checking out with coupons I didn’t know about and looking up the coupon on my smartphone. There were only a couple of times that they wouldn’t honor the coupon from my phone. I wasn’t using a specific app, just googling it, or going to the stores webpage. Abasket’s app sounds like it would be perfect for this.</p>
<p>abasket, sounds like a great app and I just downloaded it myself. What I’m searching for, though, is an app that has non-grocery store specific coupons–I see the coupons in the Sunday paper but have long since given up cutting them out and using them as I forget, lose them, forget to bring them in the store with me, etc. Would love an app where those coupons are available and I can just hand my phone to the cashier to get the discounts. Looked around on coupon sherpa and don’t see this type of coupon…just the coupons for specific stores which, loyal to one particular grocery chain, I already check on a weekly basis.</p>
<p>At our local Macy’s, they require you have a PRINTED copy of any coupon you want to use and will NOT accept a coupon on the smart phone or other electronic device. It may work for other stores/applications though.</p>
<p>Big Fish Casino - Free online card games
ZenTap Pro - ($) I’m dyslexic and it helps me spell just about anything on the go.
Audible - for audio books while I drive<br>
CalenGoo - ($$) links My google calendar across all my devices.
Alarmed - to keep track of time at accounts (multi-alarm)
GPS Toolbox - for keeping track of hundreds of areas that I inspect on maps.
Chrome - to access the internet and my google bookmarks
Camera+ - ($) for great photos
Paper Camera - a great fun photo app that is always fun to play with
Khan - Education Hub
Pillboxie - Medication reminder
TripAdvisor and Kayak - for travel
Action Movie - uses VR to add your friends (or Cat) to action movie shorts.</p>
<p>ncmentor, you made my day. I text a lot for work (yea right :)) and family reasons and coming from a Windows Phone with nearly magical autocorrect, the iPhone’s speller is stone age by comparison. There are several epic fail autocorrect apps, memes, etc and DD1 often sends me funny ones as well.</p>
<p>ZenTap Pro may just do it. I’ll try it and see if it works…</p>
<p>I managed to answer my own quest with lots of tinkering. </p>
<p>If you want to text using your keyboard you can email a text through the carrier but the sender appears to be a bunch of numbers eg 1-456-789, not your name, if you use txt.att.net (ATT is our family’s carrier) and each text is separate. </p>
<p>However if you text/email to a iphone number followed by " @mms.att.net" then it behaves like you are a phone texting to another phone. The conversation will appear as separate bubbles on a single page like phone texts do. </p>
<p>You have to text a new fresh “email” each time. Do not use reply or the older info is resent.</p>
<p>So you can text a iphone from your keyboard without downloading any ap!!</p>
<p>And if someone with an iphone wants to send a new text directly your laptop via your email and they have an iphone, they simply text to your email address, not your mobile phone number and it will go to your email and appear in your email list as an email from their phone number.</p>
), Livestrong/MyPlate, Triple A, Fandango (easiest way to pre-buy tickets for our local movie theater), Google translate (family overseas often drift out of English in email and my Danish/Swedish is limited), Tastebook (personal recipebook online that I can access anywhere, like the grocery if I decide on something last minute).</p>