If you recently acquired a new smartphone or tablet, but find yourself a bit lost as to which apps would be best to download, you aren't alone. "I love my new iPhone, but there are so many app choices that I didn't even know where to start at first," says Jen Conner, an iPhone owner from Indianapolis. According to Apple, in 2012 nearly 20 billion apps were downloaded by their customers. "The revolutionary App Store offers more than 775,000 apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in 155 countries around the world, with more than 300,000 native iPad apps available." With so many different apps available, if you've never used a tablet before, then you may be unsure of which apps would be best to download. Since some apps cost money, and all apps take up space on your device, you don't want to just start downloading hundreds of apps without knowing which ones are best for beginners.read more