Hot Smartphone Apps for Summer
WHITFIELD: This Father's Day weekend we can -- we're asking you and our staff to share the best advice from dad. One of our writers, James Dexter, his dad Jimmy had this fatherly advice to offer. "It's the lazy man who does the most work." So whether you are traveling or just grilling out, we have the newest, hottest apps to help you save time and money this summer. Earlier I spoke with gaming and gadgets expert Marc Saltzman about what's app messenger.</s>MARC SALTZMAN, SYNDICATED TECHNOLOGY WRITER: What's app messenger. And there are others too like Live Profile. They let you chat between different phones. So iPhone to Android, Android to BlackBerry, BlackBerry to Android. So it's a fast and cheap way of keeping in touch with friends. It's very cheap. And you get a little delivery message that says -- you know, when a message has been received and read you are -- there's a confirmation you get. You can have group chats. You can broadcast a message out to your friends. So that messenger is $1. And it's available on multiple platforms. So it's a great way to keep in touch on the cheap.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, and then Navfree GPS Live USA Another mouthful.</s>SALTZMAN: Yes, well, speaking of Father's Day, we all know guys don't like to ask for directions, right?</s>WHITFIELD: Right.</s>SALTZMAN: But you can spend up to $50 or $60 on a GPS app for your Smartphone. But this is -- this one's completely free. So it is called Navfree GPS Live USA. It's a hefty download. It's more than a gigabyte. But if you have the memory for it then what you do is you simply load it up on your iPhone like this. And it gives you free maps with not just visual directions but audio- based turn-by-turn directions. Therefore it's useful behind the wheel. And you can search for points of interest, you know, like, local restaurants and hotels and gas stations, and share you location with friends like your directions via Facebook or e-mail. So that's a great one if you're an iPhone user.</s>WHITFIELD: That is cool. And also if you're an iPhone user, what about that iMovie?</s>SALTZMAN: Right. So you're probably spending time with family and friends this summer capturing your time at the beach, at a cottage or summer home. And you can do that now in high definition on the iPhone 4 like this new white one that I've got here. But not only can you record it like a camcorder but you can edit it on the Smartphone itself.</s>WHITFIELD: Oh my gosh.</s>SALTZMAN: So iMovie -- yes, iMovie is a $5 app. It's very powerful. And it lets you cut out all the unwanted video, piece together your movie, add captions and narration and music, transition effects.</s>WHITFIELD: No kidding.</s>SALTZMAN: So it doesn't just jump abruptly from one scene to another. So it's a great app. Five bucks for iMovie.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Neat stuff. For more high tech ideas and reviews just go to CNN.com/tech and look for the gaming and gadgets tab. Ever wonder what it's like to zoom around a race track at 170 miles per hour? A preview of my face-to-face with NASCAR's Jason Leffler.