The recent release of the iPhone 4 on both the AT&T network as well as Verizon Wireless has opened the Apple device up to tens of thousands of new users. And if you’ve been using any smart phone device over the past few years, you probably already know part of the joy of ownership is having instant, mobile access to all your friends and followers you chat and interact with in your favorite social media communities.
So, now that you have or are considering moving over to the iPhone, you might be curious as to what the best apps are for maintaining your social media connections. The following will list six of the more popular, interesting or just plain groovy applications you can download instantly to your new iPhone.
Connect Socially With These 6 iPhone Apps
- Fring: Not only does Fring provide you with free video calling, which with the amazing new cameras on the iPhone is totally cool, but it also allows you to reign in all of your most loved social applications.
- Nimbuzz: is another aggregator application which brings many of your favorite IM and social applications together. By allowing you to communicate to most of your contacts via a single interface as well as being able to make contact detail edits, this may be the only social app you need to use with your iPhone.
- Twinkle: If you’re into Foursquare or Gowalla, then Twinkle is something you’ll like a lot. The app/service allows you to combine geolocation services directly with your twitter stream. If you are looking to just explore this social arena, this free app is a great way to dip your toes without diving head first.
- iPhone for Facebook: Let’s face it, if you have an iPhone, are into social media and have ever spent an entire weekend on Facebook, this app should bestill your beating heart. Now you can get all the amazing stuff from your Facebook account but are no longer tied to your desktop computer. With similar interface across all of the Apple devices, your iPhone Facebook app will make it easier than ever to connect with your high school sweet heart. We hope they want to connect with you too!
- LinkedIn: Okay, face it. Social media apps are not just for fun and games. Sure you like knowing what your friends had for lunch or where your significant other has checked in, but business is important as well. With the LinkedIn app (made by the folks from LinkedIn, so you know it’s right on) you will be able to walk into any meeting and have access to nearly 85 million professionals who are a part of this business social network.
- Echofon for iPhone: Twitter is one of the most popular social networks on the Internet. But you are a busy person and cannot simply sit watching your desktop client all day in order to stay updated with all the tweets put out by the folks you follow. What to do? Stay synced up of course by using the Echofon iPhone app. They have developed a process which allows you to stay up to date when you are out and about and only have access via your iPhone. Now, everything you’ve read will be marked as such and when you are back at your desktop computer, you know you won’t have to wade through a bunch of previously read messages.
If social interactions are important to you, you need to have access to your favorite communities wherever and whenever you like. Getting the best apps for your iPhone will help you stay in the game and become a social leader as well.
What are your favorite social iPhone apps?
Brian Tanner is a freelance writer for HP, a technology product producer that helps people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. On their website you can find a variety of products including desktop computers.
