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The Top 5 Free Windows Phone Apps 2010

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Top 100 Free Apps For Your Phone

Don't let Android and iPhone owners have all the fun; here are some awesome free apps for Windows Mobile devices.

Windows Mobile 6 is dying, and Windows Phone 7 has not yet risen. But there are still millions of people in the U.S. with Windows Mobile smartphones, such as the Samsung BlackJack 2 and Omnia models. While they wait for Windows Phone 7 to rock their worlds, there are plenty of free apps to tide them over.

The official Windows Mobile app store is Windows Marketplace for Mobile, which is browsable and downloadable on Microsoft's Web site. You'll find many more apps at a range of independent app stores, such as app superstore GetJar and Handmark's HandMarket. For each of the apps below, go to the manufacturer's Web site to download them.

Since Windows Mobile 6 is on the decline, we picked the five top apps that every Windows Mobile phone owner should use. Be sure to let us know in the comments which ones you like; this way, we can all learn from each other.

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Jamie Lendino

Jamie Lendino

Executive Editor, Reviews

My Experience

I’ve been a technology journalist and editor for more than 20 years, including for PCMag since 2005. I've also written seven books about retro gaming and computing. Previously, I was the editor-in-chief of ExtremeTech. I’ve been on CNBC and NPR's All Things Considered talking techplus dozens of radio stations around the country. My articles have also appeared in Popular ScienceConsumer ReportsComputer Power UserPC Today, Electronic MusicianSound and Vision, and CNET.

Before all this, I was in IT supporting Windows NT on Wall Street in the late 1990s. I realized I’d much rather play with technology and write about it, than support it 24/7 and be blamed for whatever went wrong. I grew up playing and recording music on keyboards and the Atari ST, and I never really stopped. For a while, I produced sound effects and music for video games (mostly mobile and online games in the 2000s). I still mix and master music for various independent artists, many of whom are friends.

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I’ve been cross-platform for decades, with PCs and Macs, iPhones and Android, Atari and Intellivision, NES and Sega…I’ve been doing this a while. Especially everything Atari, from the 2600 and 800 through the Atari ST, Jaguar, and Lynx. I bought my first 286 PC in 1989, the same year I bought my first issue of PC Magazine from a newsstand. I subscribed in the 1990s and upgraded to a 386, two 486s, and beyond.

Today, I use a 16-inch MacBook Pro, a custom AMD Ryzen 7 PC, and an Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop. My phone is an iPhone 14 Pro Max. For music recording, I work in a variety of DAWs (and review them all for PCMag), but my main ones are Logic Pro and Pro Tools. I use an LG 27-inch 4K monitor, a pair of PreSonus Eris E8 XT studio monitors, Beyerdynamic and Sennheiser studio headphones, and a Focusrite audio interface. For my books, I use Scrivener, Microsoft Word, and Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. I also use a zillion emulators of old computers and game consoles for…work. 

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