10 iPhone Apps to Boost Your Communications Capabilities

Does anyone even remember the ancient era where mobile phones were only used for voice calls? In todays mobile- and message-crazy world, it seems many of us spend a lot more time typing into our smartphones than talking into them. Throw in video chat technology, where we wont just be talking, but speaking face-to-virtual-face with our friends and colleagues, and youre looking at a future where making a plain old-fashioned �phone call� is completely unfathomable. Take a recent survey conducted by The Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project. The report found some 55 percent of those who exchange more than 50 messages a day say they would rather get a text than a voice call, and heavy text users are much more likely to prefer texting to talking. This development hasnt been lost on the application architects putting their wares into Apples App Store: Dozens of communications apps from giants like Skype to independent shops offer communications applications that redefine the ways you can use your iPhone. It may be an entire platform, or just an insane number of emoticons you can use to bug your friends, but the App Store is giving consumers more ways to �talk� to each other than ever. - ...

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