Android The Good: The icon based (iPhone-style) sport/league/series selection interface is intuitive and allows a user to quickly drill-down into a particular sport/league/series. Notifications are vastly customizable to accommodate the most...
Cell Phone App Reviews The Good: Free text messaging, free phone number, free voicemail transcription The Bad: integration with BlackBerry platform could be better, transcription is not very accurate, requires an invitation The Verdict: If you don't want to pay...
Blackberry Os From the time I got my first BlackBerry, the hunt for the perfect application began. About six months after that day I stumbled upon Poynt. At the time, the application was still in its very early stages and really didn’t have nearly as...
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The Good : It’s fun, easy to use, and gets you to think about neighborhoods you might not otherwise consider when deciding where to eat. The Bad : Not sure... Advice : I definitely recommend this app for anyone...
Cell Phone App Reviews Angry Birds is a physics-based puzzle game available for $.99 in the iPhone App store. The iPad version, Angry Birds HD, is $4.99. Developed by Rovio and distributed by Clickgamer, the game boasts 135 brain-teasing levels that require...
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Foursquare for iPhone is a location-based app using GPS functionality to pinpoint you and allowing you to check-in at specific venues. You can choose from a list of your favorites or a list of nearby locations. If you don't find what...
Blackberry Os The Good: Quick access to movies and show times based on GPS or manually input location. Ability to watch movie trailers (in most cases) in advance of purchasing tickets. Ability to purchase tickets from the palm of your hand while on...
Cell Phone App Reviews The Good: Push notifications for Direct Messages (DMs) and integration with BlackBerry's native message folder make for an impressive experience. The Bad: This release is still pretty buggy; it hangs and lags too often for a final build,...
Cell Phone App Reviews Goodreader takes a bit of exploring to discover its full potential, but after becoming familiar with all of the functionality it adds to the iPad, you’ll be scrambling to justify your expense of the device to your employer. In addition to...
Cell Phone App Reviews Some clever developers are out to solve our short-term multitasking ills with some iPad apps that offer stopgap multitasking, if you will, in the form of software that employs split-screen designs to offer access to more than one Web-based...
Cell Phone App Reviews Draw It! was kind of frustrating to use, and the fact that its price has already been dropped by 50% reflects the rather amateur style of the app. The program's instruction screen is laid out in an oversized, hard-to-read font and riddled...
Cell Phone App Reviews Fingerpainting goes digital on iPad. While apps like Brushes and Layers vie for the high-end drawing/painting market on the App Store, a number of lower-cost, shorter-learning curve apps are making iPad doodling quick and easy. Doodle...
Cell Phone App Reviews Popplet Lite, on the other hand, is a more traditional mindmapping app. Mindmapping is like flowcharting: You make a "Popplet" (resizable rectangle), write or draw or drop a photo in it, and then connect it to other shapes. As mentioned...
Cell Phone App Reviews I'm really excited about the prospects of using iPad as a brainstorming/mind-mapping/whiteboarding tool. Often when I need to work out an organized strategy for something - be it a PhoneDog editorial project or some flight of creative...
Cell Phone App Reviews Abvio's Runmeter is a seriously great GPS-based fitness app for iPhone. Is it better than RunKeeper Pro? That depends on what you want from your fitness app: Abvio offers better on-phone data features and arguably better GPS tracking and...
Cell Phone App Reviews Got an iPhone? Like yourself some wine? Wish you could get your iPhone to help you find some better wines, and pair those Syrahs, Gewurtzes, and Barolos with the right foods? NatDecants can help, or so Nat (Natalie MacLean, "World's Best...
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I don't much care for Foursquare . The social networking site, that is. The schoolyard game with a kickball? AWESOME. The check-in thingy? Don't really like it.
But lots of people do, apparently. They enjoy filling their twitter...
Cell Phone App Reviews Here’s another personal fav: The Internet Movie Database. Who hasn’t hit up IMDb for moments when the old starstruck brain is on empty? The guy who played the Titanic’s architect? Victor Garber. Or the prior singing credits of one Glee...
Cell Phone App Reviews If you’ve been reading PhoneDog awhile, you know that I don’t cover a ton of iPhone apps — partially because there are so many, this site would get completely overrun with them. So I try to be pretty judicious about what I pass on to you...
Cell Phone App Reviews Here’s something for all you tech fiends (or holiday shoppers): Popular Science has a new Tech Buyer's Guide iPhone app available in the App Store. With product recommendations and consumer tips for 17 different categories of technology,...
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There are a lot to choose from, and you've probably owned a few by now over the years, but if you had to choose your favorite Android phone so far, which would it be?
Are you someone who has switched from iOS to another platform, or have you simply just refused to use Apple's mobile OS due to a missing piece of functionality?
The HTC One runs Android 4.1. Do you think the HTC One should be updated to Android 4.2.2, or wait to be updated to the latest version of Android which will presumably launch at Google I/O this coming Wednesday?
Have you ever switched providers to get your hands on an exclusive phone?
Do you think BlackBerry 10 can survive, or even prosper, if BlackBerry Messenger is no longer an exclusive messaging service for the platform?