As a person who has recently purchased his first ever Android device, one of the main issues I have experienced is finding the limitations of the native apps that ship with Android and then finding alternative solutions through the Play Store that combat those limitations. As an experienced iOS user, I know exactly what I need from my iPhone and iPad and can always pull the right apps from the App Store that perfectly compliment my usage patterns and plug the gaps which Apple have missed.
Adobe's Flash has come under a lot of scrutiny over the past few years, notably from Apple, whose then-CEO Steve Jobs wrote an open letter outlining his reasons for not implementing it on any of his company's iOS devices. Things have gone downhill from there, and with HTML5 becoming more and more widely-utilized, Flash is most certainly being phased out from our devices.
The chances are if you are reading this, then you are definitely some kind of technology loving individual that more than likely comes strapped with some form of personal computer as well as one of those smartphones or tablets which everyone seems to be using these days. Once upon a time, we all would have had a single computer for work or pleasure purpose,s as well as one of those old school flip or candy bar type phones which allowed us to play Snake and view WAP configured websites.
Earlier today, we came across an awesome resource for Android boot animations which we’ve talked about after the jump. As you can guess by its name, it is a site dedicated to covering some of the best available boot animations for Android smartphones.
Swipe Launcher for Android gives users a way to change which apps are launched when they swipe upwards from the bottom of their smartphone’s screen. Android's biggest claim to fame has to be its ability to be customized in just about any way imaginable. If you want to change the way your Android smartphone works, the chances are that there is an app, a tweak, or a widget that will make it happen for you. As polished as iOS and Windows Phone may be, they just don't sport the same level of customization.
As an avid user of both iOS and Android-based devices, I am pretty pleased with what they can achieve at stock level. Having said that, the real fun arrives in what can be done to extend the capabilities offered as standard, and I am constantly amazed by some of the apps and modifications one can perform to make a smartphone even smarter.
Porting big name games to modern smartphones and tablets is something we hear about every now and then; whether it’s in the form of a professionally done port of Call of Duty, games that simulate other games or ports of older PC games done as a side project. We discuss such ports quite regularly here at Redmond Pie, and the latest of such ports is the latest game in the Doom series of video games. Check it out after the jump.
Remote desktopping has long since been an integral part of computing, but tablet devices have made this practice a whole lot easier. The quality of remote desktop apps for mobile devices varies as much as the prices do, and although there are plenty available for both iOS and Android, only a handful of them seem to be worth bothering with.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has been something of a revelation among those using Google's mobile operating system, since it's the first time Android has seemed as though it can compete with Windows Phone and iOS in terms of smoothness. Ice Cream Sandwich was a vast improvement on Gingerbread / Honeycomb, but even with some devices packing in quad-core processors, Android smartphones and slates were still susceptible to more than their fair share of lag.
Voice recognition wasn't a new invention when Apple introduced Siri towards the end of last year, but it certainly caused a stir within the mobile industry. Packaged in iOS 5 for those lucky enough to own the Cupertino company's iPhone 4S, much was made about a technology scarcely touched upon in an industry seemingly apt for it.
