While Google and Apple are two closely-contested companies when it comes to mobile innovation, the Tim Cook's fruit company is inarguably in charge when it comes to digital music sales.
While the HTC One X boasts a pretty impressive camera, not every shot is perfection. Given the optimum lighting conditions and angle, the snapper can take some crystal-clear stills and videos, but, in many cases, it delivers pretty average photos.
A new, free app called Touchpad aims to turn your Android powered smartphone into a touch-screen remote control for your Windows PC. The app, which while being free does not feature any ads - what a refreshing change! - translates your screen taps into mouse clicks and operations, whilst also sending your keyboard inputs over to your PC at the same time.
Since Microsoft has yet to jump on the mobile bandwagon with its Office series (with the exclusion of OneNote), the billions of Windows users (and those using Office for Mac) looking for a mobile alternative haven't been particularly spoiled for choice.
After months of speculation as to when Samsung would unveil its much sought-after Galaxy S III smartphone, press invites have now been sent out for the May 3 event in London, UK. In an overt attempt to draw additional interest (if it was ever required), the device isn't explicitly named for the ceremony referred to as "Samsung Mobile Unpacked" in which those invited can "Come and meet the next Galaxy."
Although Google and Apple's respective online app stores make it easy for smartphone and tablet users to find exciting games, tricky puzzles, and productive task-managers, country restrictions can be of extreme annoyance.
Although most of today's smartphones pack some pretty mean specs and performance when it comes to taking photos, as we should have learned from the unprecedented rise of Instagram, taking the shot is indeed only half of the fun.
Gentlemen, load your guns. As announced back in February, he highly popular iOS game Death Rally has just been released on the Google Play Store for Android (albeit slightly late from the original target of March.) Described as an action-packed combat racer, the game blends together combat and rally racing in an all-around fun package. And best of all, it's currently free on Android, while it is 99 cents in the iOS App Store.
If you're increasingly bored with the engine noise of your car (smart car owners, I'm looking at you), a new app has been released that hopes to partially solve this problem. Available for both iOS and Android at the low cost of $0.99, XLR8 simulates the audio of various sports cars by utilizing your phone's accelerometer to play engine sounds that kind of matches the way you're driving. When you rev your real car, the audio revs up as well. When you slow down and approach a stop light, the audio also matches this as well.
Proxy Browser is a new third party browsing app for Android that makes it easier for people on restrictive Wi-Fi networks to access the data and services they want, right from their smartphone or Android tablet device.
