While the Apple App Store and Android Market host hundreds of thousands of apps, getting in is not necessarily easy. Apps do get tested prior to publication, and failure to meet any of the corresponding company' requirements could result in a denial.
However, sometimes apps get accepted only to be kicked out at a later time. Nevertheless, some of them do deserve getting some attention. Care to meet some of them?
10 fresh boot animations to spruce up your Android
Are you particular about the way your Android device looks and functions like? If yes, then you probably have some experience with modding it with custom ROMs, or, at the very least, have at least played around with third-party launchers that offer a certain degree of customization. And if you're really into making your device your own, you might have even tried modifying the boot animation that the software on your Android phone comes pre-loaded with.
5 best external microphones for smartphones
If there's one thing that's high on my priority list when it comes to choosing a smartphone, the camera has to probably be somewhere in the top three. When it comes to convenience, there's nothing more reliable than the smartphone camera because it has proven itself time-after-time in being adaptable to almost any situation – so you never miss a moment! Not only is the convenience there, but the quality, modes, and features of the smartphone camera have been quantified to propel them over most basic point-and-shoot cameras.
5 Pokemon Go maps and advanced tools to help you catch 'em all
Like other gaming phenomenons before it, Pokemon Go has spawned an unsurprising number of third-party projects—some paid, but most free and crowd-sourced. In fact, due to the nature of the game, Pokemon trainers around the globe have banded together, putting their efforts into populating the maps of the world with sightings of the critters—both rare and common, and everything in between.We've been making an effort to note down each and every one of these maps these past two weeks, checking out each in turn to test for quality, allowing us to single out the excellent from the mediocre.
A Galaxy S20 FE 4G with a Snapdragon 865+ processor on the way
It is not a secret that Samsung’s Exynos processors are inferior to their Snapdragon counterparts. At least this has been the case for a few years now. It was especially evident on the Galaxy S20 series, when many European users reported slower peak performance, weaker camera, as well as 15-20% poorer battery life.The lines between Samsung’s in-house processor and this year’s Snapdragon 888 have become more blurred, although we’ve seen reports about some minor disparities, in favour of one or the other.
A supremely annoying iPhone alarm bug is spreading like wildfire... again
Stop us if you've heard this one before. A lot of iPhone users are complaining on social media that their daily alarms are not going off at their scheduled times, and the only solution to the pesky issue appears to be disabling a particular feature from the Settings menu.Although presented as a new thing on NBC's April 30 Today Show, this iOS bug has made headlines on our little website here at least another two times over the last year or so.
Activision details Call of Duty: Mobile's new Zombies mode, controller support
As expected, Activision introduced two new important features to its smash hit, Call of Duty: Mobile, controller support and the long-awaited Zombies mode. The US company announced earlier this week that these two new features will be released on November 25, but didn't offer too many details about them.In a blog post made public today, Activision highlights some of the most important changes included in the November update for Call of Duty: Mobile.
Age of Empires: Castle Siege coming to Android in March
Age of Empires: Castle Siege is the mobile spin-off of Age of Empires, the 1997 PC classic. It debuted on Windows Phone in 2014, and was released for iOS in 2015. Now, developers Smoking Gun Interactive and Microsoft Studios partner up once more, to bring the title to Android devices. The game will be hitting Google's mobile OS in early March, and it will be a free-to-play title.Age of Empires: Castle Siege is a mix between an RTS and a Tower Defense game.
AI is incompatible with the Apple Tim Cook has built
The idea that artificial intelligence is the next big thing in computing is pretty well established at this point. All major software companies around have said as much and we've seen the visions of big guns like Google, Microsoft and Facebook for the future of AI. Apple, however, has been a little more hesitant about making big proclamations about AI until now. In an interview with the Washington Post, Cook made it clear that he understands the value of AI and also made it clear that he sees Apple as being a major player in terms of AI.
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