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10 must-have free Palm webOS apps

19.03.2010
Palm's official webOS app store has come a long way. With at the App Catalog's launch last June, there wasn't much for early owners to get excited about. Today, however, the App Catalog sports well over a thousand titles. That's a far cry from the iPhone's 150,000 applications, but there are plenty of apps for users of the Palm Pre and (available from Sprint) and the and (available from Verizon) to choose from, and many of the best ones are free.

Note: Unlike Apple, Palm encourages the development of , which means there are a lot more webOS apps available through channels other than the official store. Installing these apps and dealing with them after an OS upgrade can be a little complicated, so we've focused on apps that are available via Palm's App Catalog for this story.

Here are 10 great free apps that should be running on every webOS phone. Add your own favorites to the .

[Don't have a webOS phone? Check out , , or .]

Longtime Palm users were disappointed that the new webOS contact manager didn't include any way to categorize contacts -- they're just dumped into one long alphabetical list. Super Contacts allows you to create multiple contact groups, categorized however you like, and contact people in each group either individually or all at once.