Dropbox is everyone’s favorite cloud storage, backup and syncing service, and for good reason: it is fast and secure, supported on a wide variety of platforms, free space is given away on a regularly basis and, well, it just works.
While native camera apps are mostly adequate for the type of (casual) photography most people do with their smartphones, there is one part where these apps, especially on Android, lack: their ability to take photos quickly. Unlocking your phone, launching the Camera app, getting the camera to focus on your object and then finally tapping the shutter button.
Cut The Rope: Experiments is now swinging its way onto an Android device near you. Available via Google's own Google Play app store after a 24 hour period of exclusivity on Amazon's own app store, the game will set players back less than one dollar.
Battery life is hardly the most impressive feature of today’s most popular smartphones. For enthusiasts like you and me, there really isn’t any smartphone that can come off the charger in the morning and make it through the night to be useable the next work day. And so, until the next revolution in battery technology comes along, it’s best to work on conserving as much battery life as possible without losing features that make your smartphone smart.
If there’s one thing where Android really excels, it’s in its ability to be customized by the user in ways iOS users can’t even fathom. This isn’t a flame bait statement, it’s actually based on ground realities.
When it comes to apps it can prove to be somewhat difficult for developers to get their apps noticed due to the fact that between the iOS App Store and Google Play hub, there are close to one million apps available to users. It also stands to reason that certain apps and categories are always going to be more popular than others, with social networking and photography apps as well as games always likely to be a user’s first port of call on the respective app stores.
If you were engrossed by last week's Apple announcements, you may have missed the fact that the Android Market was renamed to the Google Play Store. The Big G felt the move would better reflect the content available, which now includes books, movies, music and apps.
It used to be the Android Market, and then Google decided to work some internal magic on it and came up with the amazing idea of joining all forms of media together into one convenient cloud-based hub and called it Google Play. Android Market, Google Play, whatever you want to call it doesn't really matter as it is essentially the same thing as it always has been and still contains all of the app related goodness which Android has to offer.
Despite being an altogether solid mobile OS, Ice Cream Sandwich seems to be taking an age to reach many Android devices. Although the Samsung Galaxy S II has finally been blessed with the official ICS update, it will still only be the second device after the heavily-delayed Galaxy Nexus.
No human being in their right mind can deny that the world wide web is a wondrous, marvelous place. The sites and pages which make up the internet make a phenomenal resource, accessible from anywhere in the world by anyone with a connected device, meaning an almost unlimited source of information and knowledge is available at all times to anyone who comes knocking for it. Information is constantly updated, added daily and because of those facts; it could probably be considered as the most up to date information archive in the world. They say knowledge is power, and that knowledge is available around the world at a click of a button.
