New App's to consider for your Smart Phone

A recent magazine listed two apps, neither of which I was familiar with.  One is a nearly perfect GPS app, the reviewer says is as good as Garmin and has some advantages:

1.      it will pull street addresses out of your contacts, or vendors, which might make it easier to navigate, no new input required for those

2.      it is equal to most specialized Navigation devices the reviewer says, and this one will figure the traffic ahead and route you to avoid it and arrive in the best possible time.

3.      you would need a windshield mounting device, suction cup or something

Now the bad news.  It is called Navigon Mobile – Navigator.  (navigon.com)  and costs $100, the most expensive app I have ever seen.  Probably just for iPhone, not sure.

Another big app recommendation was Viper – already downloaded by 100 million people.  Allows a user to text message, and do Skype type calls (better than Skype) over the internet, all for free.   Skype is worried, and might try to buy the company.  It is located in a dictatorship (Belarus) but they get inexpensive workers there, the home base is really in Israel.  Source:  Businessweek Magazine.