One very small area where Android could take a lot of improvement is its wallpaper cropping tool. For most people, this isn’t really an issue, but with enthusiast folk who like to work on every fine detail of their homescreen setup, a good wallpaper is considered to be one of its integral parts.
One of the biggest benefits of owning any smartphone or tablet is the powerful functionality that it gives us in the palm of our hands. We take things like text message, phone calls and e-mails for granted, but if you had suggested fifteen years ago that we would have devices like the Apple iPhone or the Samsung Galaxy S II that were capable of sending e-mails, taking photographs and anything else you can think of then you would have been laughed at and accused of wishful thinking.
Apple's iPhone, along with rivals on the market, is rocking a shiny LED light, which serves primarily as a flash for the camera. However, it doubles up rather nicely as a torch, and is especially useful at helping locate things lost under a chair or couch.
One of the disadvantages of using head/ear-phones is that once you put them on, you lose all track of the (sound of) things happening around you. In a crowded, noisy environment this is actually a good thing, but when you’re at home where there is, more often than not, complete silence, it isn’t.
It seems that the better devices get, the more demanding consumers become. Barely a week has passed since the release of the new iPad, and yet already it seems much of the blogosphere is focusing its attention on the next iPhone.
The King Of Fighters by Japanese outfit SNK was one of those truly great Arcade beat-'em-ups during the nineties. As has been the case for many classic games from decades passed, it's getting a second innings on mobile.
Those owning a tablet or a smartphone could vouch, you spend about as much time keeping tabs on the battery percentage reduction than you do enjoying many of the great features.
The iPhone is one of those devices which is always going to be popular across a wide class of consumers. On one hand it is an intelligent smartphone device powered by one of the world's most advanced operating systems that will appeal to buyers who crave a phone capable of handling their hectic schedules. On the other side of that coin are the users who care more about what it looks like, and the name attached to it, the ones who will always favor form over function. Fortunately for Apple, the iPhone provides enough bang for the buck to cover both sets of consumers and is one of the main reasons why it is so popular worldwide.
Much of the animosity between Apple and Samsung / Google stems from two-way accusations of plagiarism regarding not only aesthetic design, but also aspects of each party's respective operating system.
We are fast approaching that time of year again when Mac and iOS developers and enthusiasts descend on the Moscone Center in San Francisco to take part in Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference. The annual conference, famed throughout the technology world is one of the biggest and most popular of its kind, attracting delegates from all over the globe paying thousands of dollars each for the privilege to be in attendance.
