A customer purchases the newly released iPhone 6 in a mobile phone shop in Moscow September 26, 2014. Official sales of Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus started at midnight on Friday across major cities in Russia, according to local media.
A customer purchases the newly released iPhone 6 in a mobile phone shop in Moscow September 26, 2014. Official sales of Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus started at midnight on Friday across major cities in Russia, according to local media. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov

Using an iPhone 6 or the bigger iPhone 6 Plus or planning to grab one this holiday season?

The four mobile applications below will further enhance the already exciting functions and features packed by Apple with the iOS 8-powered device:

Yahoo Weather

One of the few notable products from Yahoo lately, this weather app is stuffed with plentiful of offerings that only heighten its beauty and usefulness. It tells the time of the day (or night) and delivers weather updates in real time.

Serving as pretty accent to the application is the displayed Flickr-hosted images that also reflect the prevailing weather condition where the iPhone 6 user is currently based or located.

Chrome

Apple has Safari but the iOS 8 browser remains inferior to Google's mobile Web surfer - Chrome. The latter loads pages with incredible speed and is hard-coded to significantly trim down data usage by 50 per cent. Business Insider calls the app as the best mobile browser available in three platforms - iOS, Android and Windows.

Another welcome Chrome feature is the ability to open unlimited numbers of tab that is near-tantamount to maximum multitasking possibilities.

Skype

Skype easily beats FaceTime because it is a multi-platform messaging application that brings in the benefit of readily connecting with friends, relatives and business associates no matter the device they use and the operating system they prefer.

Communicating with Skype is smooth and easy with its intuitive interface and the package comes in instant message, voice call and video call that in most cases are services free of charge.

Last Pass

With the enhanced Touch ID fingerprint sensor, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are two of the most secured smartphones in present circulation. Yet for mobile device functions that remain password-dependent on it security or at least for users who still prefer the protection offered by alpha-numeric codes, Last Pass will prove a handy and robust tool.

The security application simplifies password use. With Last Pass, using different passwords on various purposes - social media and email accounts for instance - is made easier as a 'Master Password', the only password combination that actually requires memorising, will do the job of safeguarding a user's privacy and security.

And the best part, like the three applications mentioned above, Last Pass is free to download and use for iPhone 6 users.