Deborah Yao of the Associated Press set out to test the popular iPhone catch phrase, "There's an app for everything" by using only free apps, over the course of an entire day, using BargainBin, which tells you what apps are free and which ones are on sale. Published on MercuryNews.com, she says:

• At 7:30 a.m., my alarm clock app, goodNite Lite, wakes me with a gentle chord.
• As I trundle to the bathroom to brush my teeth, I tap the Public Radio app to listen to "Morning Edition" on National Public Radio through my local station.
• For breakfast, I check the Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook app, which can suggest recipes based on ingredients you have on hand.
• I choose something to wear to work with a flick of my finger, thanks to Stylish Girl. That app stores images of my clothes, and I can mix and match them to create outfits to save and share.
• The Weather Channel app says it's 42 degrees, but expected to warm up in a few hours.
• Leaving the house, I turn on StepTrak Lite, a free pedometer app. It tells me that I take 1,453 steps to my office over a span of 10 minutes and 17 seconds. (For people who drive, there are apps that give traffic updates.)

Check out MercuryNews.com to read the rest.

If you don't have an iPhone, no need to get jealous. Over at FuzeMobility.com, they make a great point that we Windows Mobile users have it just as good (and dare I say better) with free apps galore AND the choice of about a gazillion phones.

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