Being able to sync efficiently with the desktop is, we believe, one of the most important aspects of a smartphone. The iPhone does this incredibly well, thanks to tight integration with iTunes, but Android doesn’t. However, by making use of a handful of apps, you can get a similar experience. One such app is Cheetah Sync.
iPhone 4 Is The Slimmest Smartphone, Not The Samsung Galaxy S II: UK Advertising Standards Authority
According to a report published today, an advertisement authority in the UK has ruled that it is Apple’s iPhone 4 which can claim the title of the “world’s slimmest smartphone” and not Samsung’s Galaxy S II.
The ability to change the way a device looks and works gives consumers the ability to add a personal stamp, as well as improve general functionality. This can be achieved in a variety of ways through official as well as unofficial mediums across the board.
Facebook has updated their official app for Android today. The updated app brings much-needed features like being able to control privacy settings while posting, tag friends and places in posts and improvements like a refined UI and better-working Messages and notifications.
Folks interested in trying out Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread on the discontinued HP TouchPad are in luck, as a couple of days ago developers working on the TouchDroid project uploaded a comprehensive walkthrough detailing some of the many steps required to install Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread on the HP TouchPad. If you’re interested, you can follow the guide after the break.
For the last decade, we've gotten used to unlocking our phones just for safety's sake, but if you think about it, this process doesn't do enough of a job to protect you against thieves or unwanted users. If you're running Android, however, there's an app for you: it's known as Hidden Lock and it will greatly enhance your smartphone lock screen's security.
Apple and Samsung have been in the middle of a vigorous legal battle to ban each other's products for several months, with lawsuits being filed in Europe, Korea, the United States, Australia and more recently Japan. Apple has now managed to get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet banned in Germany after a judge ruling.
Released just yesterday, the developer community has already found out a way to gain privileged access (read: “root” access) to the Motorola DROID Bionic. As a matter of fact, the DROID Bionic was rooted before it was publicly released, but the method has now been tested and is confirmed to be working. If you’re interested, you can follow our guide after the break.
The developer community is getting closer and closer to a stable Android port for the HP TouchPad. In a video uploaded recently, Redmond Pie has learned that CyanogenMod 7 for the HP TouchPad has got multitouch working, GPU acceleration has been enabled and the popular custom ROM just looks better on the TouchPad thanks to “proper pixel formatting”.
One of the most useful and popular apps on the iTunes App Store is Remote. It is a first party app that, well, lets you use your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad as a remote control to control your Mac/PC’s iTunes library. I recently shifted back to the Android camp and found myself longing for a Remote-like app and magically stumbled upon the solution in the form of iRemote iTunes WMP.
