Take Five: Favorite Phone Apps

With almost 70 percent of the population owning a smart phone, seems like we all have one in our pocket or purse. And for every 12 minutes we spend using the phone to actually make and receive phone calls, we spend more than 70 minutes using it to go online, play games, or listen to music, according to a telecom company study. With more than 2 million apps available for download, there's no shortage of options available at our fingertips to help us work and play. Skipping the obvious email and text messaging functions that keep us in constant communication, or the camera that allows us to capture memories wherever we are, here are my five favorite and most used phone apps.

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