Recently Journalism.co.uk published two useful lists of recommended smartphone apps for journalists: 15 for Android devices, and 15 for the iPhone. Many are free; prices for non-free apps are listed in Euros.

Recommended Android apps include:

• Imagegeotag. Camera app that lets you tag images with location, date, time, compass data and more.
• Multimedia Slides Creator. Create quick audio slideshows.
• PCM Recorder. Records audio at a much higher quality than the standard Android voice recording app.

Recommended iPhone apps include:

• Byword. Text editor with easy Dropbox.com sync.
• Vyclone. Allows up to four phones to record footage of the same event.
• 1st Video. Full video editing suite for iPhone.

Many of the apps on these lists have versions available for both mobile platforms. Some of the iPhone apps also have iPad-optimized versions available. The iPhone apps probably will also be fairly easy to use as-is on the new iPad Mini, announced yesterday by Apple.