In the mobile industry, access to an “app store” has become the hallmark of any modern smartphone; however I’ve never understood how one can assess the quality of one app store over another by sheer volume. Apple’s App Store has well over 100,000 apps (with over two billion downloads), yet many of them are redundant (after all, how many flashlight applications do you need?) or unused all together. Google’s Android App Store has reached the 10,000 app milestone, yet it’s also beginning to show the redundancy highlighted by Apple’s store. And need I elaborate on app stores from BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, or Nokia? Read more
The Motorola Droid, infused with Google’s latest Android 2.0 platform (dubbed “Donut”), has proven to be quite an incredible device. As a medical student interested in technology, sports, blogging, and headline news, I’ve come across nothing but useful applications to satisfy my interests in an elegant, integrated manner. Read more
After recently getting the BlackBerry Tour for Verizon Wireless, I jumped on the opportunity to explore the realm of applications available for download. Here are the applications I frequently use on my BlackBerry (excluding preloaded software like Google Talk, Media Player, etc.): Read more
Over the last few weeks, I’ve gotten into the world of modifying stock Windows Mobile ROMs to include/exclude programs which typical users need. For example, who really needs the business card reader program common to Windows Mobile platforms? Why not remove it to save on some valuable storage space? That’s exactly the aim of the art of “cooking ROMs.” Here’s how you go about installing new ROMs on a Samsung Omnia smartphone. Read more
Think about how often you or your friends use their cell phones. Taking a quick look at my mom’s call history, she was on her cell for an average of two hours a day for the month of July. All that radiation… sheesh. Cancer and other associated brain disorders are an obvious certainty for her. Or are they?
