Five Free Apps For Your Mobile Phone

Everyone has a cell phone and most of us are emailing, texting, and searching for information online from our mobile units. Typing in long web addresses and text can be tough, but below, you will find five cool applications to add to your cell phone that will make life easier for you. The best thing is that they are all free.

Mobilicio.us
Mobiliciou.us is a mobile mashup that combines three different social bookmarking tools: del.icio.us, ma.gnolia.com, and Wieza with Google’s Mobile Search tool to allow users to browse web sites over their mobile phone. This takes away the time-consuming process of hand typing your favorite web sites onto your tiny cell keypad. Mobicio.us and all the bookmarking tools are free services.

Nimbuzz
Headquartered in the Netherlands, this mobile service allows you to make international calls at the cost of a local call. Use Nimbuzz with your internet enabled phone to communicate with 35 countries. Some of the features include: Text messaging, Chat through popular internet services, and conference calling. Nimbuzz is easy to download and usage is free. Local calling charges still apply.

scanR
Too bad James Bond didn’t have this application! With scanR you can use your cell phone camera to scan, copy or fax documents with to anyone you like. You take a picture of the document or information you want to send, upload the file to scanR, and the document is emailed to you in a Portable Document Format (PDF). scanR will also send the file to anyone on your email list, as well. Your cell phone camera must be capable of taking a 2MB picture. scanR is currently free to use, but they are planning on adding premium services in the near future.

Foonz
Foonz allows you to call a group of people at one time right from your cell phone. It has an invitation selection that sends a text message to your group that invites them to join in a call. Another great feature of this application allows you to record a message and send it out to your list. To sign up for Foonz, you need to register, create a contact list, and then dial. Foonz is a free service.

Nownow
How many times are you away from your computer and you find you need a question answered right now? Well, now there is Nownow to answer those questions for you –right from your cell phone! Just send a mobile email to Nownow and they will search the answer for you and return with up to three answers. Currently, they are in beta-testing and the price for your questions is free. They expect the cost to be less than a quarter per question once pricing is finalized.