by Shane O'Neill

10 Best Windows Phone Apps for Staying Productive

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Jan 23, 20125 mins
MobileSmall and Medium BusinessWindows

Here are the coolest Windows Phone apps we could find for business-related tasks such as scanning documents, backing up files to the cloud and analyzing Web traffic.

Windows Phone Apps

Watch out iPhone, the Windows Phone Marketplace now has 50,000 apps and new phones from Nokia and HTC are generating serious buzz. We gathered the best apps we could find that take advantage of the Windows Phone Metro UI and are guaranteed to keep you productive in and out of work.

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SkyDrive

With the recent Windows Phone update, called Mango, Microsoft’s cloud storage service, SkyDrive, was built into the Office and Pictures hubs to back up photos and documents. But the free SkyDrive app unveiled last December for Windows Phone (and also for iOS) goes further, adding such features as sharing links to folders and files, creating folders, deleting files and folders, and browsing your entire SkyDrive.

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