Like most mobile device features, the idea of having a camera as a standard feature wasn't one that occurred overnight. Many years of quite terrible cameras passed, amid cries of "it will never stick", "who needs a camera all the time?", and, the ironically overused "it's just a novelty feature".
If you're an avid console gamer and like your crime-fiction, the chances are you've played L.A. Noire, or at the very least, heard of it.
The Samsung Galaxy S III is undoubtedly the most anticipated Android smartphone of this year. After the back-to-back successes with the record-breaking and award-winning Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, there are high expectations from the next in line, and from the rumors and reports floating around the interwebs, Samsung is all set to deliver!
Such is the popularity of smartphones and mobile devices that there seems to be some kind of survey, experiment or report for every single aspect of the mobile technology industry. Just so you understand, we aren't complaining about this as these reports and experiments generally provide some extremely insightful information which can sometimes mold the way users operate their devices. In the last few years we have seen not only mobile devices, but mobile software burst onto the scene and become a multi-billion dollar industry almost overnight. Ecosystems such as the iOS App Store and the Google Play serve up billions of downloads to consumers, consisting of all different types of apps.
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.
It came as a little bit of shock when Nokia and Microsoft announced a partnership in 2011 that would see the ailing Finnish mobile device maker implement the Windows Phone OS in its next-generation of smartphone releases. The plan was for Nokia to see out their commitment to the Symbian software before ultimately designing and rolling out a range of smartphones powered completely by the Microsoft mobile OS.
Once upon a time when discussing operating systems, Windows would have been at the top of every person’s list and while it is still the world’s most recognizable OS, it has suffered a fall from greatness in recent years. With the whirlwind resurgence of Apple over the last decade, the company’s products and software have become some of the most talked about in the technology world, with Mac OS X benefitting from a rise in popularity, stealing the thunder from Microsoft.
Believe it or not, and we still choose not to, but one young man has taken a more, helpless iPad and had at it with a couple of guns. The result? Utter devastation and, unsurprisingly, a devastated iPad.
The most popular custom aftermarket firmware CyanogenMod is seeing a big update today. In an post published over on their official blog, the CyanogenMod team has released the first Release Candidate (RC) of CyanogenMod 7.2.
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.
