There’s thousands of excellent travel apps available for Android-toting folks on the move, and we’ve tried out an awful lot of them. Here’s five of our current favourites:
We’ve lost count of the amount of weather apps that we’ve installed over the years, and although the fantastic Palmary Weather PRO remains our #1 fully fledged weather app, the widget wasn’t quite getting our meteorological muse going.
After trawling through the depths of the Android Market and rejecting one hopeful contender after another, we finally clapped our eyes on what has emerged as as our new favourite weather widget: the Aix Weather Widget.
Apple has opened the doors on it’s long-awaited Mac App Store, with the virtual shelves full of more than 1,000 free and paid applications.
I tend to paddle rather than swim in the sea of networking so this post will just cover the couple of things I do regularly, ie using Twitter to alert the public to the latest doings of my cat and messing about on Facebook, the monster which has replaced e-mail and other ‘traditional’ things we used to do on the internet to a great degree.
According to the techie bods at mobile ad network AdMob, Android OS traffic overtook iPhone traffic in the U.S. in March this year for the first time ever.
Their report shows Android traffic in the U.S. surging upwards to bag a 46 percent of operating system share- a sizeable leap over the iPhone, which only managed 39 percent for the iPhone operating system.
Android is growing fast. Very fast.
Earlier this week we reported its surging market share in the US, and new figures show that the all-important Android Market is keeping pace, with over nine thousand new apps appearing last month.
AndroidLib.com, which keeps its beady eye on the Android Market and tracks trends, noted that no less than 9,330 free and paid applications appeared during March, representing a massive 58% leap over February’s 5,532 new applications.
With the launch of the iPad mere hours away for our US readers, app developers have been working themselves into a frenzy to upgrade their iPhone apps to suit the comparatively vast expanse of the Messiah Tablet’s screen.
Waiting at a bus stop is never a bundle of fun, and it’s even worse when there’s no LED indicator to give you a glimmer of hope when the next bus will hove into view.
As any fule knows, digital camera image quality has never been purely been about piling on the megapixels, with other factors such as sensor quality, sensor size and the all-important optics all playing a part.
The iPhone comes with a fairly rubbish camera, and there’s no shortage of camera apps promising to improve things for frustrated snappers, like CrowdCafe’s 7.0 Megapixel Camera app.
Vast legions of iPhone fart app developers may be be quaking in their parping shoes today at the news that Apple has just turned down an app because it only offered, “minimal user functionality.”
App store analytics firm Distimo has been rummaging through every major app store in town, producing an interesting set of comparison figures.
Want to know which store has the highest percentage of freebies? Read on…
Tech university ETH University of Zurich, have released AppAware, an interesting new app for the Android platform which tracks downloading trends in the Android Market.
Once installed, the program lets you see what’s hot and what’s not in the Market, displaying the latest stats for apps being installed, updated and removed from users’ handsets.
It seems that the prudish types at Apple are keen to apply their moral values to the App Store, first kicking off the (admittedly rather tawdry) boob-jiggling app Wobble, and then setting off on a crusade to cleanse the store of flesh.
We’ve long been unimpressed with Apple’s power-mad policies which leaves the company in sole control of what can and can not be admitted into their hallowed app store, but even that hasn’t stopped their store being flooded with crap apps or spammed’n'scammed.
Although Palm’s App store is tens of thousands of programs behind Apple’s voluminous beast, already the first signs of application spam are emerging there too.
On our sister forum, urban75, a spat broke out between posters, with one insisting that, “If you want any apps, the iPhone is the best bet.”
While we’ll be the first to agree that the iPhone is probably the best bet for gamers, it was argued that when it comes to everyday, useful apps, several platforms offer equally good ranges of applications, with some having strengths over the iPhone’s offerings.
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