10 essential Windows Phone apps

Oh, WinPho, we've neglected you. But with 80,000 apps in the Marketplace (and rising) plus some absolutely beautiful hardware to use them on, your exile from Stuff.tv app round-up is no more.

Here's the first of a bunch of best Windows Phone app round-ups that we've put together. The essentials – AKA the (mostly free) downloads we'd expect to see among the live tiles of any Lumia-toting smartphone sentry worth his salt.

Translator £Free
This genius app will make sure you never go hungry come summer holiday time – once downloaded, Translator will store the languages (like French, Spanish and Chinese) offline to avoid hefty data charges. Then, point the camera at a menu or road sign in a foreign language and the text will appear on top. The speed is impressive and text and voice input are even quicker.
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