Monthly Email Roundup

The features you won’t find on stock Android

After being bombarded with upgrade notifications for Android 4.0.4 that I couldn’t actually install due to being rooted I thought I’d reinstall stock Android, but first see what’s changed with MIUI since I last used it about a year ago.

Still only using your Android as a phone?

You might’ve looked at Android’s cheap plastic, ugly interface and headed straight for the Apple store. But do you really know what Android can do? Google hasn’t done a great job at showing people. Actually they’ve done a terrible job. But the reality is that Android has given birth to a new kind of computer.

Spotify for iPad

There is an old saying “Good things come to those who wait”, and we have all waited long enough for an iPad App from Spotify. Well wait no more Spotify today has launched what has to be one of the best looking Apps on the iPad. Even better non-members can get a free, yes FREE 30 day trial to test the new App.

HTC One Review

Being asked to review a gadget for the first time, let me tell you about my background in the gadget and phone universe for a starter. Before my new lover, the HTC One X, I carried the Samsung Galaxy S generation 1, who now is my X, so to say. She was my first smartphone. The comparisons and impressions in this text should thus be read with that in mind. Now I owned my X for about a week, so let me take you through it.

Google Cube – Google Map Game

We’d all completely forgotten this, but last night Google quietly released their game based on Google Maps.

Google Drive is here!

Google finally launches Google Drive; it’s answer to Dropbox, box, and SugarSync, and it’s actually pretty good!

iPad or Sex?

First I brought you Android Sexual Names and now this new study (take with a pinch of salt) from roxypalace.com, reported by the Cult of Mac, suggest that 10% of men would prefer their iPad to sex. Which would you prefer?

Bringing mobiles back into reality

Since the invention of the iPhone mobiles have been losing more and more fiddly things like buttons and joy sticks. Take Android 4 for example, with it’s software keys – buttons which are actually images of buttons on the screen.

Add some oomf to your girlish iPad speaker

When you spend that much money you’d be a bit disappointed to find your new The New iPad only has a single mono speaker that faces in the opposite direction to you. But now with a simple clip-on dish, designed by Nonlinear Studio in the USA, audio can be directed back at you.

Android OS Evolution vs iPhone OS Evolution

The debate is all about the evolution of the two most populous mobile operating systems, Android and IOS. You can see from the image above, IOS has seen minimal changes over 5 years some would argue that it has not changed at all. While on the other hand Android has changed considerably over the same time.