The iPhone 3Gs may have the latest Apple mobile operating system on board, it may have the same good looks that have won it so many admirers, it may have a large multi-touch sensitive screen and it may have 32GB of on board storage. But the real reason for its continued success and popularity is the App Store. The App Store is an online marketplace that iPhone owners can visit directly from their handsets. They can browse through games and applications both useful and fun and they can buy or download many for free and install them on their iPhone in a matter of minutes.

The reason that the Apple iPhone 3Gs App Store has managed to make money and attract new customers is because Apple encourages third party developers to make applications for the iPhone platform. They opened up the doors over two years ago and since then more than 100,000 different applications have been added to the store. The Apple iPhone 3Gs App Store has provided a platform for small start-up companies to make a living from designing applications and the level of ingenuity and intelligence on display in some of the creations is really rather astounding.

There are 12 loose categories within the Apple iPhone 3Gs App Store covering a whole range of functions and topics. We will have a quick skim over some of the most popular, practical and purchase-worthy applications on sale today, to help give you a flavour as to why the iPhone 3Gs continues to lead the way for smartphones.

There are tons of apps on the Apple iPhone 3Gs App Store which are designed to keep the iPhone fed with up to the minute news, current affairs and comment. Sports fans can enjoy Sky Sports scores updates and the iPhone has recently been given access to live streams of Sky Sports channels on a subscription-based service. Every major news network also has a presence in the app store, so you can pick your favourite resource and receive the latest stories as they break.

If you want to get creative, there are many music apps in the Apple iPhone 3Gs App Store. Many will turn the touch screen of the iPhone into a musical instrument, with various apps allowing you to play the guitar, piano and drums. There is even an application that lets you turn the iPhone into an instrument tuner, using the microphone to detect any dud notes. One particularly inventive music app is simply called Ocarina and it lets iPhone 3Gs owners blow into the microphone to create windy music.

The Apple iPhone 3Gs App Store has a variety of applications which take advantage of the built-in GPS function. If you are an outdoors type, you can harness a variety of useful software to plot routes across the open wilderness, track your process or even map the stars themselves.

As well as having apps for productivity and organisation, the Apple iPhone 3Gs App Store is packed with games. The iPhone 3Gs has the most powerful processor of any Apple handset so far and so the graphical capabilities of the system can really be stretched. Full 3D games with intuitive controls powered by the internal accelerometer are available and some of the biggest publishers in the business have created popular titles for the iPhone. There are also many games made by smaller groups, ensuring that every genre is covered.

There is no doubt that as the iPhone user base continues to grow the Apple iPhone 3Gs App Store will grow along with it.

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