This article is part of a collaboration between myself and Huawei
I saw this article recently about what apps some business people have on their home screens and I thought it would be fun to do on myself.
Okay so as you know, I use a Huawei Mate S as my primary phone. My primary phone is my workhorse. My no-distractions phone, that means I use it primarily for 3 purposes:
1) Communication (calls, chat, email etc etc).
2) News reading.
3) Own apps (apps that my company has for testing).
There are no games, no social networks and nothing that would be a distraction to work.
Here are the apps on my home page.
Inbox – Inbox is an app by Google that I use to manage my Gmail. If you haven’t tried it you can give it a shot. It’s quite an intuitive way of using Gmail. I find it very quick, very light and with some fun features like auto reply suggestions. If you use Gmail, give Inbox a shot.
Line – Chat app that I use quite a bit here and there. Especially important when I’m talking to business contacts in places like Japan, Taiwan or Thailand where Line is really popular.
Snapchat – Increasingly more and more people are messaging me on Snapchat so I put this on my home page. However I gotta admit that it’s probably the lesser used app on my home page compared to the rest.
YouTube – A part of my work sometimes involves YouTube content so this is easy access to YouTube. Another person who uses this a lot is… Fighter. Whenever he grabs my phone you can count on him opening this app.
Play Store – Ok this is to download apps but you’ll be surprised at how often I use this for work. Sometimes my work involves looking at mobile apps so I like to search for them on the Google Play store and check out how many downloads they got and what their reviews are.
Evernote – My work diary. I use it to take notes at meetings or to view notes that I had taken on my computer at another meeting or something.
CloudMagic – Email is a very important part of my work. I however don’t really like the default Android mail app. So I managed to find this app called CloudMagic that is free and seems to handle mail really really well. I discovered this app when I Googled for the best Android mail apps.
Twitter – I use Twitter primarily for one thing and one thing only: News. I follow all the major news outlets with it and all the news outlets for subjects that interests me. Huffington Post, Mashable, Techcrunch, BBC, Straits Times… you name it. I follow them all. Twitter is the first app I open in the morning and the last app I open just before I go to bed.
WhatsApp – No explanation needed here 😃
Slack – When it comes to work, Slack is a great app to communicate with teams. I use Slack regularly to communicate with my regional team from all over. We have discussions, send documents to each other and all sorts of things through Slack. Some of our discussions tend to be really lengthy sometimes so it helps that I like the keyboard on my Huawei phone. I can’t explain it but I use Swiftkey on my Huawei and I somehow type faster on it than the same Swiftkey I use on any other phone.
Bloomberg Business – This is an app I use to catch up on business news and also to keep track of my stock market investments. I normally open this app and feel good about my investments but with stock markets tanking in the past year or so every time I open this app I feel sad. Haha so I don’t open it as much.
Chrome: My preferred browser.
Camera: The default camera app for my Huawei. Have taken lots of good pictures with this.
Dayre: Last but not least, Dayre. It’s the only social media platform I allow myself to indulge in when I’m at work. Partly because it’s also part of my work. I often to prefer updating my Dayre on this phone than my other play phone because of how much faster I seem to be able to type on the Mate S. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s a particular feature from the Mate S that lets me type faster. It’s just something about it… and maybe it’s a personal thing. But it just does.
So that’s all the apps on my home page. Nope no Clash of Clans because that’s on my play phone that I limit usage of.
That’s it for me. What’s on your home page?
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space