• Use your phone for updates on Facebook, weather and flight information.Paper Boat Creative/Lifesize/Getty Images
  
  The Palm offers an application catalog allowing you to choose between free and paid applications with just the tap of a finger. Palm.com suggests that you save your payment information after buying one application, so you do not have to re-enter it for future purchases. The catalog allows you to choose applications by category, such as most popular, weather, sports, news and entertainment.
  
  

Facebook

• Social networks such as Facebook allow you to keep up with friends, family members and colleagues online and from anywhere in the world. According to the Facebook for Palm OS page, users with the site's application on their Palm are able to respond to messages, upload photos and video, receive status updates and view profiles. According to an article on PromoMagazine.com, Facebook accounts for 44 percent of shared content on the Internet.
  
  

Pandora

• The Pandora application is rated number 7 on the top 10 free Palm applications. According to Pandora.com, it is a streaming Internet radio service that finds new and similar genre music based on current song selections. Make playlists, listen to free radio, bookmark tracks and buy songs with this application.
  
  

Travel & Navigation

• According to a press release on PRWeb.com, the Palm App Catalog offers the FlightTrack application for $4.99, allowing users to track flights in real time as well as view updates on flight information, save flight information and displays an interactive map with real-time flight details. The application offers tracking devices for 1,400 airlines and 4,000 airports around the world.
  
  

News

• The Weather Channel application offers GPS-attached local weather as well as 36-hour and 10-day forecasts, according to PCMagazine.com. The application offers customizable updates on severe weather, rain, clouds and all other weather news. Also available for the Palm is the Associated Press (AP) application. The AP is a worldwide news network, and its app shows headlines on the front page, allows you to share your favorite articles and lets you scroll through full stories. PCMagazine.com calls the AP application "great."