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With all the talk about the iPhone getting a better JavaScript engine and an enhanced version of Safari in iOS 4.3, one wonders how well it performs against Android. Well, an independent company decided to put them to the test. The results? Android loaded pages 52% faster than on iOS 4.3, but there are a…
Path is very slowly, but surely rolling out updates to keep up with the times. The photo-sharing application was released late last year, but its feature set was pretty limited. Actually, it was very limited. At a time when Instagram and other photo-sharing apps were allowing users to post their photos to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr…
We’ve seen a number of accessories for both the iPhone and iPad that allow you to play games on the device without using on-screen controls that end up taking valuable real estate, but what if you want to play your games with some robotic drones inputting the commands for you while you order them from…
Apple’s iPhone has been heralded by many as being the best smartphone to ever hit the market. It was also ridiculed by nearly everyone because it ran on AT&T, who has been having trouble keeping up with the traffic demands that millions of Americans are causing due to all the cute cat videos they’re watching…
Google’s released an update to their “Google Search” application for the iPhone, and while it’s prettier than the last version, it’s still a bit … how should I put this, rather useless for most people. Sure, all the cool features that Google has been cooking up in their labs are in there. For example you…
When gaming started to get more serious on iOS, one genre I knew would be really popular among iOS gamers were tower defense games. Some of the most notable titles has been Fieldrunners and Plants vs. Zombies. The rest are pretty much the same kind of game, except they have a different theme, towers, and…
Apple might be giving users less incentive to use web apps saved to the home screen in favor of dedicated iOS apps downloaded from the iTunes store. A recent report says that web apps that are opened from the iPhone’s home screen perform significantly slower when compared to opening apps in the Safari browser. The…
Skype introduced Qik Video Connect for iPhone today and it allows the iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4th generation do video calls with Android devices. Qik users on Android and iOS can now make video calls with each other over Wi-Fi or 3G with the new app. Perhaps the only downside to this based on…
For as long as we can remember there’s always been a rumor floating around that the iPhone 5 would get near field communication (NFC) support. Just like Apple practically invented the tablet industry overnight, many were hoping that the iPhone 5 would make 2011 the year that NFC finally took off. News coming from The…
Remember Bust-a-Move? The classic bubble-shooting puzzler has long been one of my favorites. Shoot the bubbles to match 3 or more of the same color to make them disappear… and continue on until all bubbles are popped. Remember it? If you do, there’s a new game in the App Store that will surely float your…