When Apple announced iOS 5.1 to the public last month, some hoped Siri for iPad would be somewhere on the list. Unfortunately, the fruit company only implemented Voice Dictation, which, although better than nothing, left the Siri hunters to continue using the alternatives available.
We feature many useful, productive, prim and proper apps here at Redmond Pie, but sometimes one comes along which allows us to simply kick back and geek out a little. It's on these occasions when we just like to tinker for the heck of it, and Prox Pro for Android proves that an app download doesn't always have to be serious business.
With the adoption of iOS 5 being relatively high and growing rapidly, most new tweaks which hit the Cydia store have the latest major release of iOS as a firmware dependency before installation can be allowed. The SwipeCam tweak by developer Ron Melkhior that has been released in the last day or so is no different, and offers iOS 5 users the ability to gain access to a few different system toggles through the use of a swipe gesture.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the time has come for you to stop worrying about receiving an astronomical monthly bill from your network provider telling you that you owe them an extortionate amount of money due to the fact that you have massively exceeded your cellular data download limits. In my experience, cellular data is a varying beast. One month I can hardly use it, and the other, I can go way over my allocated service plan limit, meaning that it is very difficult to gauge an average of how much I am likely to use.
There are plenty of apps out there for all devices, and not all of them are of any real use to people. Yes, games are entertaining and there are plenty of apps that have that cool factor, but how many have us coming back to them each and every day because they enhance our lives somehow? How many are must-have apps that we need in order to function?
Facial manipulation apps have been quite popular over the past few years, and can turn even the most boring mugshot into a funny and entertaining creation.
As those of you reliant on your smartphones on a daily basis will surely vouch, battery life is probably the most important commodity. Although devices can offer a grand pallet of tasty features, without the power keeping the turbines ticking over, they're essentially useless.
If iMessage has changed the way SMS is handled by both customers and carriers, what would happen if Apple did the same thing to the voice calling system?
The “One” series of smartphones marks a rebirth for HTC, once a dominant Taiwanese smartphone manufacturing company but now far behind juggernauts like Apple and Samsung. With just three models with straightforward names - the One X, One S and One V - it shows that HTC has finally, finally realized that Apple’s strategy of quality over quantity of products is far more beneficial than releasing a new flagship device every few months.
When TouchPose was released on Cydia store a couple of weeks ago, it immediately grabbed itself quite a number of fans, mainly amongst the video creation and editing world. The whole concept of TouchPose was to show a visual indication on the jailbroken device screen whenever it recognized a user’s touch.
