When it comes to the iPhone, most people still think of it as a cell phone that is mainly used for surfing the Internet and consuming media purposes. That is how it was mainly marketed when it first came out. They wanted it known as a multimedia phone. The phones that were available at the time, were extremely lacking when it came to Internet capabilities. The Internet was an afterthought when it came to the experience as a whole. The iPhone fixed that. With it's wide browser and easy controls, it allowed people to surf the Internet for long periods of time without their hands being cramped. But now, since the introduction of the app store, the iPhone is being used in a lot of ways that it was never thought of before. For the gamers, there is a large library of games that they can play. For people that are interested in information, there are a huge number of applications for that as well. The surprising thing about the new app feature for the iphone, is the amount of well made business applications that are available.

Business applications on a cell phone was once the domain of Blackberries. You were not considered a serious contender in the business world unless you owned and used a Blackberry on a regular basis. And for years, blackberry owners would mock and ridicule iPhone owners for having in their words, "toy phones". Now the app store has allowed iPhone owners to laugh right back in the faces of Blackberry owners. There are a huge amount of world class business applications that are available for the phone. Not only do you have independent third party creators of business applications, making software for the phone, but you also have the big boys as well. Pretty much all of the big companies have made iPhone versions of their software. No longer do you have to go to Blackberry to get quality business applications.

The business uses for an iPhone are great. You can work on a spreadsheet, or set your business calendar through several applications that are available in the app store. You can even take a payment from a customer on the phone using applications such as CC terminal. The Bloomberg stock checker application is one of the best interfaces that I have seen for a mobile phone. It allows you to get all of the information about a stock that you would ever need, all from the cell phone itself. This is not an easy feat. Not to mention, the amount of brokerages that will allow you to make a trade on the phone while you are on the go. Yes, there are a lot of quality business applications that are on the iPhone that you can use in your daily professional life.

The iPhone has come a long way when it comes to using it for business. Opening up their application store to third party developers was the best thing that they ever did. Now instead of Apple telling you what your phone is best suited for, you can customize it yourself to suit your needs.