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Walgreens and YP Yellow Pages: mainstream apps growing on WP7

bestwp7apps | May 11, 2011 | Comments 0

Walgreens and Yellow Pages are the latest two big names that recently launched their clients for the WP7 platform. Just released last week, the two apps are a sign that the audience for the Tile-centered Phone OS is growing in mainstream interest.

Like Amazon and The Home Depot before, YP and Walgreens’ are also an example of how the standard Metro UI helps building an intuitive experience for users that can familiarize themselves with the basic controls and reuse the knowledge across multiple apps.

YP is the client for the familiar service, and has an interesting twist: consider this app as a mix of regular Yellow Pages search by business name, Yelp’s search by category with reviews and Groupon list of deals around you. The value of this app is in combining all these services.

Walgreens is more the regular app from the pharmacy chain that you would expect: find a store, what’s in the store, order pictures prints. Interesting twist here? The Refill by Scan option, which allows you to take a picture of the barcode on the drug box and order a refill.

Both apps mix Metro panels with the use of mobile web pages rendered by IE inside the app (Walgreens uses it more than YP). But overall this is not very apparent or really annoying.

Both apps are free on the Windows Phone 7 App Marketplace, and we believe they are worth your taps. Check them out.

Walgreens (Free)

Walgreens allows access to classic and new pharmacy features like refill by scan.