While the Lumia 800 is Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone, the stylish Lumia 710 brings much of the same great functionality and features, but at a lower price. And with a fantastic range of free apps available for Windows Phone, it’s easy to add even greater features to the new Nokia smartphone, so we’ve taken a look at the ten best apps to install and try on the Lumia 710.
Xbox LIVE Extras
Bring the Xbox experience to your Lumia 710, with this great gaming app. Letting you customise your Xbox avatar, manage your profile, keep tabs on your achievements and even message your Xbox LIVE friends, you can get your gaming fix on the move and be ready for next time you boot up your Xbox 360.
YouTube
While the great Windows Phone 7.5 OS lets you view Flash videos directly in your browser, the YouTube app is still an essential add-on for any serious YouTube fans. Letting you easily browse the millions of videos in YouTube’s catalogue, the app even integrates perfectly with the Lumia 710’s Music + Videos Hub, offering even easier access to your favourite clips.
Amazon Kindle
The perfect app for keen reader’s, Amazon Kindle lets you access more than 750,000 books via the excellent Kindle Store. With the latest best sellers and new releases on offer from just £6 each, as well as a huge range of classics available completely free, Lumia 710-owning bookworms will never want for another reading app.
Spotify
Every music-fan’s favourite app, Spotify lets you listen to millions of great tunes wherever you go on your Nokia Lumia 710. Whether you choose to create your own playlists or listen to your friend’s favourite songs, the great interface, packed catalogue and handy offline mode let you enjoy hours of high-quality music all day long.
Eventful
If Spotify and the Nokia Lumia 710’s great music apps don’t completely satiate your hunger for songs, then the Eventful app certainly will. Giving you instant access to local gig listings and tour dates for over 130,000 artists, you can easily find a concert wherever you are and enjoy the best live music no matter where your travels take you.
Pocket Recorder
Turn your Lumia 710 into a full recording and audio editing tool with the Pocket Recorder Sound + Recording Hub app. Ideal for taking audio notes and capturing ideas on the move, you can even turn your recordings into ringtones and set them as alarms, to be used as reminders, bringing great audio functionality to your Nokia Windows Phone.
Cool Tools
The Swiss Army Knife of Lumia 710 apps, Cool Tools brings a pack of great features to your Nokia Windows Phone. As well as a unit converter and stopwatch, you get a digital spirit level and restaurant bill calculator, among many other great tools, making this an app that you’re sure to use every day in some shape or form.
AllRecipes
Putting thousands of great recipes in the palm of your hand, the AllRecipes app makes it easy to always find the right meal for any occasion with your Lumia 710. You can choose by dish, ingredient or cooking time and even pin a Live Tile to your Windows Start screen, to enjoy daily notifications on the latest tasty meals you can try.
CardStar
Get rid of all your loyalty cards and free up some space in your bag or wallet, with this great card manager. Just scan your loyalty cards into the easy to use interface and you can then use your Lumia 710’s screen to swipe your card next time you buy something in your favourite stores; a great app for saving space and collecting loyalty points.
iHeartRadio
Turn off boring British radio and enjoy over 750 American stations on your Lumia 710. With its great offline mode, you can download shows and listen to them even when you’re out of a reception area and thanks to the great new Windows Phone 7.5 features, you can even add a Live Tile to your Windows Phone Start screen, for easy access to your favourite shows.
With so many great apps available for Windows Phone, it’s easy to add even greater functionality to the Nokia Lumia 710 than it already gives straight out of the box. And with many of them available for free, they make the perfect compliment to this great new Nokia Windows Phone.
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