Best Windows Phone 8 Apps

The Most Download-Worthy Apps For Windows Phone 8

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With its big, bold tiles and color-intensive interface, the Windows Phone OS sure has lots of style — but, unfortunately, it gets little love in the app department. Although the platform is still trailing behind iOS and Android offerings, there are some great hidden gems available for Windows Phone 8, like the beautiful photo app Camera 360 and Weave, an RSS reader available exclusively for Windows mobile. There's also a new crop of popular apps jumping on the Windows Phone wagon, namely Pandora (which has a special treat for WP users) and the multiplatform messaging app Viber.

The Windows Phone app store is still missing key downloads (ahem, Instagram), but Microsoft's new mobile platform is on the rise. If you're rocking a Nokia Lumia or HTC 8X, make sure you've got these 11 top-notch apps for Windows Phone 8.

Camera 360
Camera 360
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Get SLR controls on your phone with Camera 360 (free), a beautiful app with advanced settings to edit photos that you can share to Twitter, Facebook, or Flickr from the app.

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Pandora
Pandora
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Windows Phone users get an exclusive Pandora (free) treat. Users can listen ad-free on the personalized radio service through 2013, with no monthly streaming limit.

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Netflix
Netflix
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Watch TV or movies from your phone with Netflix (free), which finally has support for 720p screens.

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Viber
Viber
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Viber (free), one of our must-have apps for a long-distance relationship, just released the Windows Phone version of its multiplatform SMS, voice, and photo messaging app.

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Evernote
Evernote
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Evernote 3.0 (free) for Windows Phone, the app that keeps all of your stray thoughts in one place, has a new homescreen with more shortcut options than before.

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SkyDrive
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Microsoft's own SkyDrive (free) integrates with Microsoft Office and Xbox to store all of your documents and pictures and make them accessible from virtually any device.

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Photosynth
Photosynth
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The panorama app Photosynth (free) captures interactive 360-degree images, both horizontally and vertically.

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WPGram
WPGram
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Windows Phone's greatest downfall is the absence of Instagram, which has failed to provide an app for the platform. The next best thing is WPGram ($1), an Instagram client. You can't upload photos, but you can view your feed, comment, and like photos.

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United Airlines
United Airlines
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The beautiful United Airlines (free) app lets fliers check in, book flights, view flight status, see mileage, and more.

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Twitter
Twitter
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The Twitter app's (free) latest update includes Live Tile support at last — allowing social media mavens to see the latest tweets from their feed on their phone's homescreen.

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Weave News Reader
Weave News Reader
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The RSS reader Weave (free) is exclusive to Windows Phones. Choose from a variety of topics, or import a feed from your favorite website.

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