WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR NEW IPHONE?

Smartphones and tablets still weigh heavy in the hood Santa Claus. According to the GfK institute, not less than 4.3 million of these products should be sold for the holiday season. And no doubt that the new iPhone 5S or 5C are part of the stars under the tree. Only the Apple phone has no interest for the proposed applications galaxy. In the jungle billion apps from the AppStore, 

integrated

After a few minutes of configuration (language, connecting to iTunes) iPhone already displays a multitude of basic applications such as browser, camera or e-mails. More interesting new owner of an iPhone will be offered a free download of apps made ​​in Apple.

The first batch, iWork for productivity. It equates to a kind of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with a word processor (Pages), spreadsheets (Numbers) and presentation tool (Keynote). The second batch, iLife, is more interested in multimedia, offering a powerful photo editing app (iPhoto), another easy video editing (iMovie), and last to making music (GarageBand).

We strongly advise you not to download these six applications. Because they are free, and mostly because they are efficient and practical.


Social networks

They have become essential. One digit to be convinced that users spend an average of 8.3 hours per month on Facebook. Therefore essential to recover on his smartphone.

Facebook and Twitter to share
Skype and Viber to call
Whatsapp and Snapchat to chat
Instagram to photograph
Vine and Spark to save
LinkedIn and Viadeo to exchange his card


Everyday life

The smartphone, like its big sister the tablet is revolutionizing the approach of web services. Here are the most common practices.

View movie times with Allocine
Listen to the radio with Radio France and Radio Indés
For podcasts, it must go through an app simply called Podcast
Leaf Yellow Pages
Cooking with Marmiton
Preparing subway ride with RATP, or Vélib bike
Always with you, the smartphone also acts as a GPS with integrated Maps app, or with Mappy GPS and TomTom
iCoyote will then avoid radar


read

The phone connected also proves very useful for reading a book or a newspaper article, the time of a subway ride. And when the iBooks Store and the Newsstand Apple no longer sufficient, other resources available to you.

Amazon offers to find a multitude of electronic books with its Kindle
Flipboard converts RSS feeds of websites real magazine
For lovers of bubbles, and BDBuzz IZneo offer a wide selection of Franco-Belgian comics Comixology U.S. Manga Rock and Manga
Finally, readers of "Nouvel Observateur" can download and play their favorite smartphone magazine, but also the real-time information website.


music

In addition to the effective enforcement Music and GarageBand, several applications can enrich the musical component.

Shazam is a must to recognize any song that goes
Edjing transforms her mobile screen platinum DJ mixes and playlists automatically
Vevo finally proposes to find almost all clips


video

YouTube is no longer automatically integrated to the iPhone and that's a shame: the world's leading video sharing has fallen out with the apple ...
The competitor Dailymotion increases the catalog of videos
Several TV channels offer their own app to watch the replay or live as TF1, M6, Canal + or BFM


games

Remains the component video games, one of the main uses of smartphone owners. Again, the offer is abundant. Selection.

Angry Birds Star Wars II is the latest installment of Angry Birds
Attention Candy Crush Saga addictive (Paul confirms)
Fruit Ninja is getting old, but still proves funnier
Plant vs. Zombies 2 returns to continue the war against the zombies
Ruzzle leverages brains for a maximum of words
But where is Mickey? features the famous Disney heroes in search of water
Cut the rope 2 is (still) the story of a Russian frog lack of sweets
Rayman Jungle is a nice platform game, simple and effective

bonus


With the 12 days of gifts, Apple offers 12 content (apps, music, movies, series) free from December 26 to January 6.