The Best Free iPhone Apps for 2012

Nowadays, Apple products are popularizing all over the world. So, Lots of developers developing the application for Apple Products. In that case, Now there are more than 2 million apps available for Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and, surprisingly, many of the best are free. Here we are showcases some of the best free iPhone apps, and includes iPhone applications for social networking, travel, news, photography, productivity and much more....
Facebook

Social network aware swan, Facebook app now available for iphone.. The revised grid-based 'home screens' provide speedy access to regularly visited sections (news feed, notifications, and so on) and pages, and the experience is such that it in many ways beats the browser version.

Adobe Photoshop Express

Digital photography editing, until very recently, has been a task best suited for desktop and laptop computers, but Adobe proved that it could be done in the mobile space with Photoshop Express, a free photo editing application for the iPhone and other iOS devices. It's a powerhouse of a mobile app, and can even handle noise reduction (extraneous particles that show up on photos). All in all, Adobe Photoshop Express is a solid tool for making light photo edits on your iPhone. 

ESPN Score Center

ESPN's free app lets you check the game quickly, and discreetly when necessary (that is, with your phone under the dinner table), for your favorite teams in more sports than most other apps. It can pull game data from baseball, basketball, American football, the sport the rest of the world calls football (soccer, in the U.S.), ice hockey, cricket, rugby, and more.

Evernote

Clients to access the popular Evernote service for storing notes and ideas online are available for so many platforms that we half expect a ZX Spectrum app to be announced.

The Best Applications for iPhone - 2012

Top iPad Applications by Apple Inc.

• iLife 
• iPhoto - Re-Touching your great Photos 
• iMovie - For Personal Movie Making and Mixing 
• GarageBand - Turn your iPad into Electric Guitar 
• iPDF - Portable Document Reader 
• iWork - Manage all your Daily Works 
• Pages - The Word Processor by Apple Company 
• Keynote - Making Presentations for your work 
• Twitter - Twitter iPad Version
• Cloud -  iPad Version 

• iTunes U - The Large catalogue of free education content by Apple which includes lectures, videos, books. 
• Remote - Use iPad as Remote Control
• WSJ - The Wall Street Journal Tablet App

5 Most Useful Free Apps for BlackBerry

While the BlackBerry app market may not be nearly as large as the iPhone market, that doesn’t mean that there are not numerous, quality BlackBerry apps that many users will appreciate. Here are 5 of the most current and innovative apps for the BlackBerry. All three of these apps are also free!
Evernote

You can replace your spiral notebook for a 21st century update that enables you to record thoughts, brainstorms, and musings in a more organized fashion. In addition to text, save photos (i.e. class board notes) and audio (maybe an impromptu interview) from either your phone or desktop. Then you can search through them later. Just a few possibilities for Evernote include keeping all of your Internet browsing organized, preparing for meetings, taking snapshots of important information, researching, taking notes in class, and recording voice memos. 

Pandora

One of the most popular music streaming sites is now available for mobile devices. Pandora has a wide variety of music styles including jazz, classical, hip-hop, Latin, country, classic rock, pop, dance, and much more. You’ll enjoy all of Pandora’s great features in a version that is streamlined for EDGE connections, allowing you to listen to your music just about anywhere. You won’t even need a 3G BlackBerry. Some users enjoy Pandora so much that they opt to use that exclusively instead of loading their own music onto their phones.

Opera Mini 5

It is not a secret that it is much easier to navigate full HTML pages on Palm Pre and iPhone devices that allow multi-touch gestures than it is on BlackBerry devices. While Opera Mini 5 cannot magically give your BlackBerry multi-touch gestures, it will give your loading speed a jump start by compressing pages before loading them. It also has a more powerful interface that the default BlackBerry browser does with options such as Speed Dial shortcuts that launch favorite web sites in a single click. Additionally, thanks to the tabs, switching between web pages is very easy.

Opera allows BlackBerry users with both touch screen and keypad devices to navigate smoothly. The browser has the option of switching between landscape and portrait mode. It also allows you to adjust font size to make reading easier.

WhatsApp

If you are a text-buff, chances are you have already used WhatsApp on any of the other devices you owned in the past. WhatsApp is a multi-platform chatting app that can be used to send and receive text messages, photos, audio-recordings etc. The push notification make it a very reliable mode of communication with your friends and family.

BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer lets you enjoy internet television and radio service on your BlackBerry and other supported devices. This app puts TV right into your pocket and you can watch any BBC shows from past 7 days. This app works only via Wi-Fi though.

Apple iPad 3 - New and Great Features

Apple iPad 3 Though the tablet promises quite a lot of new and exciting features, rumors indicate that it could be priced at a very high range. However, with the competition kicking in, expect that the iPad 3 will be set at a reasonable price. Apple is expected to release the iPhone 5 a few months after the launch of the iPad 3.

A6 Processor

The current Apple iPad 2 has a 900MHz dual-core ARM Cortext-A9 processor, Apple A5 chipset and PowerVr SGX543MP2 GPU. This certainly made the Apple iPad 2 a powerful tablet and a main competitor in the world of tablets. Now Apple is aiming to make the competition tougher by sporting an A6 Quad-core Processor in the iPad 3. This would make the iPad 3 as powerful as any high-end desktop.

According to Linley Group senior analyst Kevin Krewell, “We expect the A6 will be a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 design, which would be competitive with next year’s best mobile processors. In 2012, Nvidia will offer a quad-core Cortex-A9 processor, and Qualcomm will have the aforementioned MSM8960, a dual-core A15-class processor operating at 1.7GHz. Fabricating Apple’s A6 in 28nm (instead of the 40nm process Nvidia is using for its quad-core part) will reduce both die cost and power, yielding a much better product.”



iOS 5

The iPad 3 will come with the latest iOS 5, which will host the multi-touch gesture technology. However, analyst and tech enthusiasts predict that Apple would introduce OS X Lion for the tablet, since it will be powered by a quad-core processor.

This will also include multitasking features, such as notifications, task-finishing, app-switching, location and background sound.

3D Feature and New Retina Display

Apple enthusiast expected the Retina Display feature on Apple iPad 2; however, Apple has been working majorly for an improved version of it to include it in the iPad 3. The iPhone 4 currently supports the Retina Display with a screen resolution of 960 x 640. Apple explains Retina Display as: “Developing pixels a mere 78 micrometers wide, Apple engineers were able to pack four times the number of pixels into the same 3.5-inch (diagonal) screen found on earlier iPhone models. The resulting pixel density of iPhone 4 – 326 pixels per inch – makes text and graphics look smooth and continuous at any size.” 

With the Retina Display feature, the screen resolution of the iPad3 will be 2048 x 1536 pixels. However, it is said that the third version of the tablet is delayed due to Retina Display issues, and Apple is expected to ship the tablet in early 2012. 

There are speculations that the tablet will display the 3D view. Although it’s too early to expect features like 3D display, devices like the LG Optimus can record videos in 3D, and output the same through HDMI.


Cloud Computing     

Apple announced its Cloud services during the WWDC 2011, and will definitely include the iCloud technology both in the iPhone 5 and iPad 3. With iCloud users can store photos, apps, calendars and access songs on iTunes without having them to store in the phone’s memory.

Camera

The iPad 3 will come with an improved camera, since the previous version of the table didn’t seem impressive enough. Unlike the iPad 2, the new tablet will come with LED flash to support the camera. It is expected to have a 5MP camera with 1080p or 720p video recording quality of 60 frames per second. The technology made by OmniVision will help reduce the size of the table by 20 percent.

Fingerprint Proof

Apple has already been granted patents on this technology, and is working real hard to make the iPad3 fingerprint proof. The touch screen will be coated with oleophobic materials, which will reduce the oil and fingerprints on the screen.

Apple 'iPad 4' Headed for October Launch with iPad 3 as Interim Upgrade?

In an effort to continue throwing ideas at the wall to see what might stick, the only occasionally reliable Digitimes recently reported that not only will Apple be releasing the iPad 3 with high-resolution "Retina" display in March as is widely expected, but that the company will follow that up with the release of the iPad 4 in October.
On the topic of the iPad 3, Digitimes suggests that the Retina display will be the main attraction of the new device, with better battery life also serving to entice customers. But other hardware upgrades for the iPad 3 are said to be rather minimal, as Apple is reportedly rolling out the iPad 3 alongside an iPad 2 price cut to $399 as an interim effort to set the stage for a bigger battle with the competition later in the year. 

Apple will ship the so-called "iPad 3" with a full HD display in March and then "iPad 4" - named so by its component suppliers - with killer applications in October, according to industry sources in Taiwan. [...]

But a true battle for market share will arrive in the second half of the year when Apple ships its iPad 4 in October, about the time when Microsoft releases its Window 8 and Intel unveils its Clover Trail-W platform, the sources commented.

The 9.7-inch iPad 4 is expected to come with much upgraded hardware specifications and integrated applications so as to compete with an array of Android-, Wintel- or WoA (Windows on ARM)-based tablet PCs to be released in the fourth quarter, said the sources.The rumor is somewhat reminiscent of last year's round of claims, which suggested that the iPad 2's successor would appear in late 2011 as an interim upgrade carrying a Retina display. Claims of a late 2011 iPad came from several different sources in July and early August of last year before other sources including The Wall Street Journal put the claim to rest.

Digitimes has a proliferative record of Apple-related rumors and has occasionally offered accurate information. But its information is generally considered unreliable given a significant number of claims that have failed to materialize. Claims of two separate iPad launches this year are sure to pique interest though, and we'll be waiting to hear if other sources offer similar information going forward.

90% of Smartphone Users Like Larger Displays - Strategy Analytics

Smart phone displays are getting bigger day by day. Android users are already used to it but do all smart phone users like bigger displays? The answer lies in a report that came from Strategy Analytics, which says nine out out of ten smartphone users like to have bigger displays than they have previously used. Besides the current phone manufacturer they were using , they want larger screens. It was found in a report that most of smartphone users prefer 4 to 4.5 inches screen size as long as their phone is thin. The report also found that females consider phones with a bit smaller screen size than males. The Analysis was done on US and UK smartphone owners who own Android ,iPhone, BlackBerry, etc and used prototype models of smartphones and let the smartphone users choose from them. 

Does this means that future generations of smartphone sizes are tending towards tablets? Of course “No” because you cant increase the size of your hand, and your jeans pocket also comes into consideration. Obviously smartphones like Samsung Galaxy Note and LG Optimus aren’t meant for everyone. Almost every smartphones manufacturers have at least entry level smartphones with screen sizes between both 3.2 and 3.7-inch, but the possibility of getting a 4 inch smartphone with high-end specs is impossible these days. For those who are size conscious and need high-end specs, there is always an iPhone. 
There is no doubt that larger screens are good for multimedia consumption but a phone should be potable enough to be hold in a hand or to carry it out in your pockets, that’s whats phones are meant for. For those who like larger displays and wants tablet but can not afford to buy a second device, a larger screen sized phone is a way to go.

50 Must Have Android Applications for your Android Mobile

You just got your first Android phone or tablet and are now looking for some apps everyone must have. Or, you just got bored by all the old and want to test some new ones. One of the problems of having such an immense amount of apps in the market is that you aren’t able to find the ones that are worth a while. That’s where lists like this one come into play.

We have listed some of the best free apps you can find in the android market today. These apps will work on a tablet as well as any Android phone.

1. Google Sky Map



Google redefined the word search and with Google Sky Map it goes beyond the meaning of search. The Google Sky Map allows you to search the sky for stars, planets, constellations and you don’t have to move out to do that beacause the app uses you phone’s orientation tools.

Download Google Sky Map

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