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Are you a huge Real Madrid fan? Or perhaps you just can’t get enough Cristiano Ronaldo in your life? If you own an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you can pick up an app called Real Madrid Foto Match. It’s basically just another matching game, but it could provide hours of entertainment if you happen…
Angry Birds is at it again with its Seasons variant of the popular game. Last year, we saw the first Angry Birds Seasons come in the form of a Halloween motif. There was eerie music, cobwebs and Jack-O-Lanterns everywhere. Shortly after, it was followed by a Christmas them, and then a Valentine’s Day theme. This…
Bizzy is a recommendation engine that helps you find restaurants, shops and bars based on your preferences and the preferences of users similar to you. It has been available on the iPhone for some time now, and was recently launched for Android. Its user-base is still growing, so results vary from city to city, with…
The Apple iPhone is just about perfect in every way, but its notification system is its Achilles’ Heel. Regardless of what you’re doing on your phone, if you receive a text message or push notification, it will pop up and remain prominently on the screen until you deal with it. Nothing is more annoying and…
Last week, shortly after the iPad 2 was announced, a Samsung executive said that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 had inadequate parts and that Apple set the bar rather high. Indeed, the iPad 2’s specs are impressive and gives every other tablet maker on the market a reason to sweat. The iPad 2, at just 8.8mm,…
A few years ago, upskirt photos being taken on mobile devices became quite problematic in Japan and South Korea. Officials in both countries started cracking down on those perverts, especially in trains where most of the crimes were taking place. In fact, phones were required to make a shutter sound every time their cameras were…
It looks like a Nexus S 4G for Sprint is all but confirmed at this point. There was a rumor earlier that the device would be announced, along with a handful of other devices, at CTIA 2011 in Orlando, FL. Now we’re seeing that a website dedicated to the Android handset is being readied by…
When many of us think smartphone security, the first company that pops into mind is BlackBerry. It’s the reason many enterprise users have trusted the brand all these years. However, for the average BlackBerry user, it seems like the only real security you can get is from passcode-protecting your device. BlackBerry Protect, however, should give…
When Motorola and AT&T announced the Atrix 4G during CES 2011, they touted it as the most technologically advanced smartphone in the market today. It has a dual-core processor, runs Android 2.2 Froyo, docks onto and powers a laptop and is equipped to handle AT&T’s HSPA+ “4G” network. However, it seems that the latter might…
No one was surprised when Apple and Verizon announced a CDMA iPhone 4 earlier this year without the inclusion of LTE, or the technology that Verizon uses for its 4G network. We did have our hopes up, however, though it seemed like we’d have to wait another year before an LTE model of the Apple…