Since the invention of the iPhone, the smartphone trend has exhibited continuously exponential growth. Many new developments have created a new market to explore.
A lot of iPhone buyers use only a small and trivial part of its functionality, not realizing the full potential of their mobile friend.
iPhone Applications, the hottest trend of the mobile world, let everyone (with Mac and technical approach) to develop their mobile dream, from every corner of the world. The talented ones can also make money out of it.
But this article is not about just any iPhone apps. It is about those applications that may save you time and money!
Here are 5 tips for managing money with your iPhone:
- Convert Currencies
Check the up-to-date exchange rate of any desired currency, and get a close look at your stocks.Applications such as Currency Converter Pro enable you to check 220 exchange rates, including silver and gold, and to convert between them.
- Manage your budget
In order to stay on top of your budget planning and implementation, you may need a tool to help you plan and act appropriately.
iPhone - Budget Application
Budget is an application for managing your personal budget. It enables you to receive some basic information, such as graphs of your expenses, reminders relevant to your plans (such as when you need to pay your monthly rent), retrieved data and sets the time period for you budget plan.
You may synchronize the data over several iPhones, for more than one person managing their households (husband and wife, partners etc.).Another budget management application is Day Bank, which allows you to synchronize the iPhone application with software on your computer.
- Save SMS and phone calls
The fact that you’re with your mobile phone doesn’t necessarily means that you need to make your phone calls through the device.
Fring is an application that combines all your contacts in the instant massages networks (Google Talk, ICQ, MSN messanger etc.), allowing you to chat with them and even have a voice conversation (VOIP) through Wifi.
Fring users can speak free with one another. Skype is also enabled by the SkypeOUT rates. - Keep updated in the stock market
Keeping track of stocks is something you can do with the application Stocks, which comes with the iPhone. You can get information about stocks and receive relevant updates, including detailed graphs and a list of securities.Stock information for experts is provided with the application Bloomberg, built by the financial information agency, Bloomberg. The
iPhone - Bloomberg application
application is far more detailed than ‘Stocks’ and allows you to keep updated with the world’s markets, complete with news and estimations.
- Tip calculator
Have you ever wondered how much money you should leave for the waiter? Tipulator, an iPhone application that easily calculates the tip everyone in the table need to pay, does it for you. You simply enter the amount to pay, the tip percentage desire and the number of people dinning.
This is only a few of the enormous pool of iPhone applications that can save you time and money.
I believe that in the future the mobile revolution will manage our wallet very, very closely. Smartphones are already helping us manage our budget and advise us for smart saving. Of course, until the CEO Game becomes an iPhone app, in order to play what will surely be the most fun and realistic business simulation ever, you’re going to have to sit down at a computer. It’ll be worth it, we promise.
The CEO Game.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Very good information to save some money especially the Fring application because talking via popular chat services through WiFi can honestly save you a lot..Good Job
October 19th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Wow, I’d not heard of the tipulator app before, I find it incredable what stuff you can do with just an iPhone!
Great post