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Protecting Your Location with PlaceMask
On Android Authority, I have written a few reviews on applications that keep your Android phone nice and safe. But, those were mostly anti-virus scanners, with the average function of data backup. Not until recently I started to view applications in the android Market that were primarily focused on blocking your real location, and transmitting [...]
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Best Navigation Apps for Android
One of the best things to come out of the smartphone revolution was that we got to throw away all those bits of paper in our pockets along with the 10 minutes before we left home of poring over maps trying to work out where we were going to go. GPS-enabled mobiles have changed all [...]
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Multiple Google Calendars for Windows Phone 7.5
Windows Phone 7.5 users rejoice – for multiple Google Calendar syncing is now available on your Mango handset. That’s right – after months of waiting and having to do complicated work-arounds, no longer will you forget to go to that important meeting / send your mum a birthday present (delete as appropriate, depending on what [...]
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Steam App Now Available On iOS and Android
Online game distributor Valve has launched iOS and Android apps for its Steam users – although sadly this doesn’t mean PC gaming on the go. Instead, like the My Xbox iOS app, this is an online community based app where gamers can chat with their Steam buddies, browse community groups and user profiles, view screenshots [...]
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WebOS Instapaper App makes Leap to Android
Now that HP has open sourced webOS and announced their Enyo 2.0 framework plenty of webOS developers have been digging through the code. Given the nature of how Enyo works and it’s compatibility with WebKit, we’re quite certain plenty of webOS developers will be making their apps available in the Android Market as soon as [...]
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Smartr Contacts List on iPhone with Xobni
Fanboys, prepare your contacts list for a spruce-up like never before as Xobni Smartr Contacts for iPhone is hitting the App Store. The announcement follows the launch of Smartr Contacts for Android and Smartr Inbox for Gmail back in 2011 and, apparently, tens of thousands of iPhone owners requested to be notified when the iPhone [...]
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Netflix App now Available in UK and Ireland
Netflix made its popular content streaming service available in the United Kingdom and Ireland yesterday. Previously exclusive to the US, Canada and various parts of Latin America, our friends across the pond can now enjoy movies and TV shows streamed to their TV or internet connected device. This launch also brings with it the Netflix Android [...]
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Gameloft Adding Voice Chat Over LTE to Their Android Games
What’s next in Android gaming? Earlier this month Gameloft announced that they had partnered with Verizon to enable in-game voice chat over their 4G LTE network. The first game to receive this treatment should be the popular Ashphalt 6, which Gameloft was showing off at CES in Qualcomm’s booth. “We are thrilled to be partnering [...]
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Google Sky Map getting open sourced
Google’s own window into the night sky is all set to head down the open-source road. The Google Sky Map application has been massively successful, currently boasting over 20 million users. Not bad considering this app was created in part just to show off the capabilities of the early Android smartphones. Now though, Google has [...]
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DSP Manager App of the Week
There’s nothing more annoying than a smartphone with a weak speaker. Whenever I’m reviewing a new Android phone, I always check the external speaker volume, because it’s become an essential buying point for many readers. If you’re stuck with a phone that has a tiny, weak speaker, (like most of Samsung’s phones, unfortunately) you’re not [...]
