With BlackBerry devices falling from grace in recent times, the iPhone has become a welcome replacement to its business-oriented users. With advance and a greater general acceptance of electronic media in the business world iOS devices have become an absolutely indispensable professional accessory. Developers having realised a golden opportunity has availed itself speedily created a new generation of highly competent and user-friendly apps to fill the then existent gap and have since been refined to meet all current possible professional needs in the electronic arena. The apps below represent the best in their class and either offer a viable improved alternative to the standard iOS fare, or provide new functionality to any professional iOS user.
Microsoft Outlook Marvel app is available for free, and it combines all your contacts, sort and prioritise calendars, and email into one easy to manage and navigate app. It will also sort and prioritise messages for its users and then filter the high priority messages into a separate tab, while leaving the balance to deal with at your leisure. The calendar functionality automatically schedules meetings according to filters set by its user, it will also set automatic reminders for the above meetings, and synchronise emails, meetings, and tasks accordingly across all your accounts and devices it is installed on. For those that was some reason prefer not to use Outlook there exists another equally great alternative, namely Inbox from Google.
CamScanner Pro offers users the capacity to transform their phones and turn it into a mobile document scanner that allows you to scan and save pictures and documents on the fly as either PDFs or image files. Users will benefit from the ability to organise their files commuting or waiting on an appointment, and instantly mail them to colleagues or clients as the need arises. It also features the capacity to link up with on-line storage units such as Box, Dropbox, Google Drive for safekeeping and thereby synchronising across all your accounts and devices, quite handy in case of the loss of your mobile device. The app developed by INTSIG is available at £3.99 from the iStore. Anyone finding the app or interface not suitable are not compatible to the devices will be glad to hear of an equally brilliant alternative in Tiny Scanner Pro.