Need an app? There’s a phone for that. Here are the year’s top app-friendly smartphones and the popular apps that go with them.

Apple iphone 3GS

Who knew that with your cell phone you?d be able to shoot and edit video, take photos with a 3-megapixel camera and play a song at the command of your voice? Apparently, Apple did when designing its newest iPhone, the 3GS. If those features don?t sound enticing enough, consider the built-in digital compass or cut, copy and paste features for Web browsing.

Talk Time: 5 hours Price: Starts at $199

Cool Apps:

Midomi: Never wonder the artist or song name again. With this app, you can hold your iPhone up to any radio or hum any portion of a song to identify it.

Skype: Place free calls over Wi-Fi, check voicemail and send low-cost texts, anytime.

BlackBerry Curve 8900

Along with sleek, sophisticated design, this smartphone features a 3.2-megapixel camera with video-recording capabilities and a 480×360-pixel screen to view searches on its full HTML Web browser and discover new applications. Documents to Go Standard Edition application, a calendar and a voice recorder are preloaded.

Talk Time: 5.5 hours Price: Starts at $149.99

Cool Apps:

Vlingo: Send a text or e-mail message, call a friend, search the Web and update your social status, at the sound of your voice.

MP3 Ringtone Creator: Choose the starting point of any song stored in your BlackBerry or on a media card to make a customized Ringtone.

Palm Pre

Get your life in sync with the Pre?s Palm Synergy feature, which brings your Microsoft Outlook, Google and Facebook calendars together for one logical view of your day. Contacts in different places can be linked so conversations with the same person are grouped together in one chat-style view ? start a chat in IM and end it with a text. A slide-out QWERTY keyboard allows easier and faster texting than that of any touchscreen phone.

Talk Time: 5 hours

Price: Starts at $199.99

Cool Apps:

Fandango: Browse movie and theater listings, watch trailers and view fan ratings. Then use GPS to find the closest theaters and purchase tickets.

Connect 4: Enjoy the classic row-making game with full touchscreen controls and three unique gameplay modes so you can play alone, against your online friends or the friend standing next to you.

LG enV Touch

Popular features: 3.2-megapixel camera and camcorder, Bluetooth and HTML Web browsing. View apps on its 3-inch touch screen.

Talk Time: 4.3 hours Price: Starts at $410.00

Cool Apps:

ESPN MVP: Live gamecasts, exclusive commentary and video alerts.

WikiMobile: Carry 2 million Wikipedia articles in your pocket.

T-Mobile myTouch 3G

Smartphone from T-Mobile and Google features a One-Touch Google Search widget on the home screen and shoots photos and video with a built-in 3.2MP camera.

Talk Time: 6.6 hours Price: Starts at $199.99 with two-year contract

Cool Apps:

Sherpa: Combines your interests and location to give you recommendations on nearby places, events and activities.

WorldTour : Get images from live webcams around the world.