This week's recommended apps sees a mixed bunch, headlined by one app some footy fans will find particularly useful as the FIFA Football World Cup continues to get the ball rolling. So to speak. Some of the week's recommended apps include: World-Class Excuses, Be the Coach, Bloomberg Free, High Speed 3D Free, Hip Hop All Star and Disks Touch. Read on to discover more about each one…
With the most important World Cup matches soon to take place there's never been a better time to feign near-death to get out of work and away from your dictator-like boss. Among the week's recommended apps is a useful tool to help you craft a carefully planned retreat away from the desk and onto the sofa. Other apps include one to pit your wits against the England football manager and others letting you peep the stock markets, pretend you're a superstar DJ and act out your virtual boy or girl racer fantasies.
Type: Entertainment
Size: 1.56MB
If like us you've run out of excuses to find a way to watch the World Cup you'll need this handy app. It's stuffed to the brim with clever alibis to forge your own football-shaped getaway.
Type: Entertainment
Size: 1.32MB
Do you have the powers of prediction? Reckon you're just as good a football gaffer as England's Italian manager? Then download the free Be the Coach app to put your team picking skills to the test. Match England's starting lineup and you could win a Nokia X6 touchscreen smartphone!
Type: News & Info
Size: 0.52MB
Bloomberg Mobile is a stock market and stock price news feed right in your pocket. It features charts, a portfolio function and market data analysis.
Type: Action
Size: 1.25MB
A nitrous powered street racing game for Nokia devices with 20 tracks to race on, 9 cars to burn rubber off and a garage-full of customisation options for all of them. With real drift racing physics doing their thing, and the ability to boost High Speed 3D is the most action filled of free mobile racers.
Type: Arcade
Size: 0.60MB
Hip Hop All Star turns your Nok into a a record spinning DJ deck letting you scratch up records from such stars as Busta Rhymes, Kid Cudi, Jason Nevins and other music stars. Hit the on-screen keys in rhythm with what you see and hear to progress from the neighbourhood street party to people-packed stadiums.
Type: Strategy
Size: 0.25MB
If you've ever played Connect Four then you'll know what to do here. Disks Touch lets one or two players drop coloured discs onto a blue grid full of round slots in order to be the first to connect four same-coloured discs in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally.