App NewsDownload iPhone ApplicationsThe iPhone from Apple is easily one of the most popular gadgets of the past decade. In addition to numerous consumer and industry awards, the iPhone has been a financial blockbuster. Not only is the device itself selling well, but the company is cleaning up on iPhone Applications or apps. An application is just a mini programme that a user can download from the internet. It allows them to perform a number or important actions like surfing the internet or emailing clients and friends. But apps can also be used for entertainment purposes. In fact, the most popular applications today are mobile games. These apps can be downloaded from the App Store, which recently announced its one billionth download. That’s right. In a little over a year and a half, iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded over a billion applications from the App Store. These applications range in price from free to a few pounds per download. The most expensive apps tend to be office apps that are used for business purposes and contain more information and features than simple mobile games. For example, a programme like Quickbooks gives business owners the ability to create and email invoices to clients, view balance sheets, and manage their books all on their mobile phones. (more...) Online Android Application NewsSome of the most popular mobile devices on the market today are Android phones. Unlike most mobiles, they are not actually named after the manufacturer, but rather the operating system. And since Android is not a proprietary technology, any phone maker on the planet is free to develop their own versions of the Android phone. As you might expect, most phone makers have taken advantage of this rare opportunity to utilise a popular new technology for free and have offered multiple versions of Android phone. In fact, there are currently 18 different phone manufacturers who have brought an Android phone onto the market in less than two years. And as they produce these new phones, they are also releasing thousands of new applications each and every month. That is why it’s difficult to even estimate how many Android apps there are, because they are literally being produced faster that industry insiders can count. For that reason many Android phone owners pay close attention to android application news . (more...) New Apps for Smartphone OwnersWith thousands of new apps being added to app sites each and every week, how in the world is the average smarphone owner supposed to keep track of them all? Well, the easy answer is that they can’t. There are simply too many of them. But what you can do is read a few online reviews and find out which apps are worth downloading. Fortunately for smartphone users there are many reputable app review sites that can be found for free online. These sites offer access to reviews for the latest new apps. And while many of them are quality sites that provide honest reviews, it is always a good idea to look around a bit and find a site that seems to suit your needs. What to look for? Probably the most important thing for new apps and review sites is to make certain that they separate their reviews into distinct categories. As you may know, there are so many apps these days that they must be divided into dozens of different categories. Some of the most popular ones include: office apps, mobile games, social networking apps, and navigational tools. (more...) Video Apps for the iPhoneOne of the major drawbacks of the iPhone from Apple is that it cannot capture video recordings. Fortunately, a number of 3rd party application (apps) designers have solved this problem with dozens of high quality programs that give iPhone users the ability to record and share videos on their mobile devices. In this article we are going to take a quick look at some of the most popular and effective video apps on the market today. A video app called 12Seconds lets users record 12 seconds of audio and couple that with pictures that have been saved on the iPhone. These photos and audio can then be sent to family or friends directly from the phone. But if you actually want to record video, you will have to download the iPhone video recorder. This application can record for several minutes, after which you can save the recording in MPEG4 format. The program offers a number of image quality control features as well as different video modes. The only problem is that this particular application is fairly expensive. Presently, it costs about £15.00. (more...) | Featured Apps
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