- reading emails
- reading news via dedicated applications
- reading eBooks
- Web browsing**
- posts to Twitter
- updating Facebook and other social media*
- instant messaging
- contact and calendar management
- document management*
* If Facebook and Google Docs improve their native apps which as of May 28, 2011 are substandard to say the least.
** Mobile Web browsers have to be able to keep up with HTML5 & CSS support in Google Chrome which is leading the way at this time.