A few years ago, downloading applications on to your handset was mainly the preserve of the geeks and the smartphone-toting crowd. However, thanks (once again) to the intervention of a fruity sounding cupertino company, applications (or “apps,” as they came to be known as in common parlance) became a rage and before you knew it, everyone from cellphone manufacturers to service providers was giving the user the option to download software to their handsets ranging from games to cellphone themes to office suites.
Today, it is rare to get a mid-segment handset that does not have at least one link to an application store — be it Apple’s App Store that comes on the iPhones, the Android Market on Android devices, Ovi Store on Nokia phones, or Samsung Apps on Samsung devices. Most service providers from Airtel to Aircel and Reliance also have their own app stores, letting their subscribers download a variety of applications.
And that is not all. If you are not content with the app stores that come with your phone or those of your service provider, you can try out still others. They may not get the big apps as early as the major app stores do, but what they offer is variety and freedom from being tied down to just the official app stores
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