Work Smarter By Going Green With Your Smartphone

Mobility has gone a notch higher with smartphones. Nevertheless with mobility comes the additional cost of maintaining and powering the mobile gadgets.

With studies showing that people are now spending more time on their smartphones than on their computers and with more than 500,000 mobile apps available, there are thousands of apps to help you save money.

The tiny gadget can as well help you save money when shopping for new products, provide free video calling to friends and family around the world or serve as a replacement for other digital devices like video/nevertheless camera, audio recorder, calculator and calendar.

What many users take for granted is the amount of energy consumed by smartphones which can lead to unnecessarily bloated power bills.

The Nokia's Ovi store

In the Nokia's Ovi store, you find Green Charging, an energy saving app that ensures you do not waste power during charging your phone.

More often, users discover that their phones were fully-charged long afterwards a lot of power has been wasted or get inconvenienced by a flat battery when they least expect it.

The open air on a sunny day

We as well have portable mobile solar chargers that come in handy when in the open air on a sunny day. One such gadget is Suntrica portable and bendable chargers which best suit the adventurous type or people who spend more time roaming the countryside nevertheless still want to remain connected via their phones.

Another blunder that smartphone users commit that costs time and even money is installation of too many applications that eat into the phone's memory slowing it down even to the level of malfunctioning.

Phone that 'hungs' can cost you time

A phone that 'hungs' can cost you time and even possibility if it happens in the middle of an important conversation with a client or business partner.

One such marvelous application especially for news lovers, social networking addicts and journalists who want to keep abreast with breaking news is Snaptu.

Instead of cramming your phone with lots of individual apps that eat into your battery, waste space and slow things down, you can have Snaptu, and keep your phone running full speed ahead.

The links in one place

With the links in one place, all updates on the chosen sites will automatically pop up on your phone instead of you navigating across your favourite sites for updates.You can as well leave your face book and twitter accounts open on Snaptu for quick access and instant chats or contact with colleagues, business partners or customers.

However, be aware that leaving such applications to automatically remain open on your phone may cost you in terms of bandwidth hence you should consider turning them to manual mode so that you control bandwidth consumption.

The application synchronises contacts

The application synchronises contacts, calendar events and tasks, notes with native applications on your Symbian device hence saving you the agony of manually transferring data between phones.

On most Nokia E and N-series smartphones, to illustrate, you can store your contacts online through ovi sync so that you can always download them to a different handset if you lose your phone. This eradicates the pain of losing contacts collected over a long period of time should you lose your lose a phone.

With Google Sync app, if you have an iPhone, Windows Mobile Device or a Blackberry you can choose to sync both your contacts and calendar, or just one of the two. Similar apps are available in the android market.

Apart from Skype) you can use Talkatone that lets you make free Google Voice VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls on your iPhone during GrooVe IP does that same for Android.

With these VOIP apps, you not only can make calls anywhere in the world for free, however you have the added benefit of video, too. With Skype -- which can as well be used via your cellular service -- you can as well swap files and text with the person you're chatting with.

The money you may be spending on long-distance calling

If you consider all the money you may be spending on long-distance calling, free apps like Skype, FaceTime and Fring make sense and save cents.

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