It’s established: there is no dearth of good launchers on Android. In fact there are so many launchers out there that it is virtually impossible not to find one that fits perfectly with your exact needs. Whether it is performance-conscious or customization-friendly or both, Google Play has got you covered!
As announced by Samsung back in February, the electronics giant has officially spun off its highly successful display manufacturing business as an entirely new corporation. Samsung Display Co., Ltd, poised to fully commence independent operations on April 3rd brags in its press release that overnight, it has "become" the world's biggest display manufacturer, with 20,000 employees and five production facilities worldwide.
We all love owning and using our iDevices, probably a bit to much in some cases, but at the end of the day when the sun goes down there comes a point where we just want to slip under the covers and have an uninterrupted nights slumber. Depending on what apps you may have installed on your device, it could be set to push alerts for pretty much anything meaning that peaceful nights sleep could be well and truly thrown out of the window if you forget to flick that silent switch.
Despite being an open mobile operating system which offers more freedom than competing platforms, Android comes with a bunch of small but nonetheless frustrating limitations. One such limitation is Gmail’s limited support for different file formats; it plays well with things like PDFs, DOCs and AVIs, but when it comes to ZIP files and other, lesser known formats such as 7z, the popular email client simply denies the user from downloading it. Further, Gmail doesn’t let you save attachments to specified locations on your device’s internal memory or SD card.
What could possible be better than having an iPhone or iPod touch with five docked icons at the bottom of screen? Yes, you guessed it, having ten docked icons is undoubtedly better and provides double the docked app fun. The DoubleDock tweak that hit the Cydia store in the last few hours offers that exact functionality, and will definitely prove to be one of those packages that either appeals or it doesn't.
My default ringtone/vibration intensity is set so I can just barely detect them. I‘ve set them like this because, this way, I easily get notified of incoming calls/texts/emails without drawing attention to myself in quiet environments like the classroom or the library.
With the beautiful Retina display, the iPhone is a great little device for those who like to take and view photographs but aren't keen to shell out hundreds of dollars for a separate camera. We all know the iPhone comes with a built in camera as well as an accompanying Photos app that allows users to view, manipulate photos and create albums as they see fit. The app is a great starting point, but like so many other native iOS apps that come preinstalled on the device, it could do with a little more functionality.
Despite boasting several hundred thousand apps, there are still a few areas within Apple's App Store that one could point to as lacking somewhat in really groundbreaking apps.
One of the primary uses of smartphones today - besides taking photos/videos, receiving/sending texts and calls, consuming content from social networks and RSS feeds - is as an organizational tool; we use it to wake us up in the morning, to keep track of meetings, events and other appointments and, of course, to keep to-do lists.
Most of you following the news here at Redmond Pie will own a smartphone. In fact, I'd guess that all of you own a device boasting features qualifying your cell for the "smart" moniker.
