All the best communication apps. Instant messengers, VoIP, translation services and more for those who still use their phone to keep in touch.
Start sharing that unlimited data plan of your with all and sundry or perhaps just your nearest and dearest
£15.69
The slick replacement for your aging and creaking Windows Mobile contact list but at a price.
£13.69
Fullscreen visual notification of who exactly is calling/texting you
£3.37
Trace a phone by simply sending a text message and getting a map link of its last known location in reply
£0.69
The place where all your email and social-networking messages to collide and have a party.
£0.65
Cue the celebrations: Texts From Last Night arrives to track your most embarrassing drunken text moments.
£0.62
Free texting to your loved ones and your mates when you are abroad. Where’s the catch?
£0.59
A brilliant way to keep track of birthdays, with a level of polish to match Apple’s own apps
FREE
If instant messaging takes precedence over phone calls and texting in your life, the Yahoo! Messenger is one way to chat over the web from your smartphone.
FREE
If you can’t bear to be away from your emails, Yahoo! Mail is one of the few ways on the Android Market to get access to them straight from your mobile phone.
FREE
Windows Live comes to your phone, dragging your Windows Live Home kicking and screaming.
FREE
VoIP client which offers free calls and cheaper international charges for your mobile.
FREE
Phone people for free, through your phone’s Wi-Fi. That’s right – free, as in no cash, nada…
FREE
It might sound like a playground insult but this is the device for all fat-fingered Android users.
FREE
Skype for Symbian brings free VOIP calls to your mobile via mobile networks or wifi.
FREE
Nimbuzz puts all your VOIP contacts into one call list and provides IM too – powerful stuff.
FREE
Translation tool that aims to end the embarrassing sight of Englishmen abroad speaking at Johnny foreigner loudly and slowly.
FREE
Communicate in style! … but only if you’re style is tacky and a bit weird.
FREE
Still use ICQ? Great! You probably won’t get along with this feature-less IM client though…
FREE
Tired of the way your text messages look? Give them a makeover, courtesy of HandsentCMS
FREE
The quickest and easiest way to search and access Google Apps on the iPhone
FREE
Instead of joining up to hundreds of messaging sites, Fring lets you speak to your mates regardless what service they use.
FREE
Not quite a mobile version of our favourite web browser, but it’ll do for now
FREE
FindMe allows you, your nearest and dearest to track each other. Simultaneously useful and scary.
FREE
eBuddy Mobile Messenger is a slimline instant messaging app for Yahoo!, MSN, Facebook, AIM, ICQ, MySpace and Google Talk.
FREE
Share content, like photos and contacts, on your handset by ‘bumping’ phones together.
FREE
The mobile app instant messaging solution for those still tied to AOL’s AIM message system.
FREE
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