Cellular South Reveals the Best Android™ Apps to Help Conquer Tax Season

From Managing Finances to Filing Wirelessly, the 2011 Tax Season is Less Daunting With the Help of Android Apps Recommended by Cellular South’s Discover Apps

RIDGELAND, Miss.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The days of filing taxes via snail mail are numbered. In fact, according to the Internal Revenue Service, more than 75 percent of the 140 million people who filed tax returns in 2010 did it by e-filing. Furthermore, an increasing number of Americans are turning to the convenience of wireless smartphones, specifically Android-powered devices, to file their taxes.

Cellular South, the wireless provider with the highest smartphone penetration rate in the nation, understands the need for great apps to help users manage their finances and file taxes on-the-go. The Android-powered device leader has enlisted its Discover Apps experts to identify the very best e-filing apps found on Android Market and has a few recommendations.

“With tax time quickly approaching, consumers are looking for easy, convenient and secure ways to file their taxes. Cellular South is taking this opportunity to educate wireless users about the many options they have for filing their taxes wirelessly,” said Jim Richmond, director of Corporate Communications for Cellular South. “Organizations like the IRS and TurboTax are offering impressive Android smartphone applications to help consumers navigate the tax return process and e-file their taxes with confidence.”

Cellular South’s Discover Apps experts combed through various tax-related applications on Android Market and found the three best wireless e-filing apps for consumers.

Snap Tax: This tax-filing app from TurboTax, the nation’s best-selling tax preparation software, magically helps taxpayers who file a 1040EZ to prepare and file their federal and state income taxes on their smartphones. All consumers need to do is take a photo of their W2, answer a few simple questions and e-file securely. The SnapTax app is free to download, but users pay $14.99 to prepare and e-file their tax returns.

Taxcaster Mobile: This free, easy app from TurboTax provides a quick tax estimate. Users enter basic information about themselves, their income and deductions and get an estimate on whether they will owe taxes or receive a refund.

IRS2Go: This new, free app from the IRS is an easy and quick way for consumers to manage their e-filing and check the status of their refund. Users need to provide some basic information about their tax return and IRS2Go provides the updates and information needed to stay on top of their tax return.

Cellular South, the largest privately-held wirelessly provider in the U.S., currently offers six Android devices, including the highly-touted Samsung Galaxy S™ smartphone - all of which provide high-speed data processors, robust messaging platforms and mobile security options that make mobile tax e-filing possible. Plus, with more than 100,000 apps available on Android Market, many of which geared towards personal finance and business productivity, professionals and families alike have a variety of tools at their fingertips.

“Today’s wireless users need a device that provides them with the tools, speed and security needed to keep them connected and productive, especially during tax season,” Richmond said. “Cellular South has the Android-powered devices consumers need and want, along with unlimited plans and reliable network that will keep them securely connected.”

Unlike other smartphone app experiences that provide access to thousands of apps, but leave customers overwhelmed and unsure of the best ones for them, Cellular South’s Discover Apps helps consumers search, find and use the best apps that best fit their lives. By combing through the growing list of thousands of Android apps on a regular basis, Discover Apps chooses the very best, most useful, and fun Android apps available today. The recommended apps help smartphone users get the most out of their wireless device – creating the optimum app experience not available at any other provider.

For more information about Cellular South’s Android suite of smartphones, as well as Cellular South Discover Apps, visit www.celllularsouth.com/android.

About Cellular South

Cellular South is a diversified mobile communications company passionately committed to helping customers get the most out of their wireless devices and services. The nation’s largest privately owned wireless communications provider accomplishes this goal by optimizing customers’ app experience through Discover Apps, providing the most reliable and advanced high-speed nationwide wireless voice and data network, offering industry-leading family and unlimited flat rate voice, text and mobile web plans, and through its online and in-store Discover Centers, which give customers easy, simple and convenient tools, tips, advice and information on how to get the most out of their mobile phone. For more information about Cellular South and its products and services, visit www.cellularsouth.com.

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Cellular South
Dave Miller, 601-974-7725
dnmiller@cellularsouth.com

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