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How mobile app stores can be improved

There’s an app for that.   Everyone loves and makes extensive use of application stores. People of all ages, of different industries, people seeking bite-sized fun on the go, people of different professions…the list is literally endless. And so are the potentials of a well-curated, well-maintained application store. Question is, are these application stores today…

Disappointed with the Samsung Galaxy S3? Not so fast…

  Samsung had been quite sensible with the Galaxy S3 and the mobile race- they didn’t compete using battery-draining killer specs. Instead, they began a whole new era in the race- the Sensor Wars. Sure everyone was expecting a never before seen design that’ll beat the current and near-future iPhones and it being made of…

HTC One X’s Menu button fail? [updated 21120416]

  [There is now an unofficial fix/mod for this on xda developers!] Considering the amount of customization HTC has made to the phone, it is somewhat hard to understand why it stuck to Android ICS’s default navigation bar buttons convention when it designed its own physical touch buttons on the device. The reason why this…

Breathing new life into old Android phones

          CRAP. You know what’s good? This: The Galnet MIUI rom (Build 2.11.26) I was ready to sell off my Galaxy S2 (yes not exactly old..). All content backed up, all data partitions wiped, flashed a new fresh rom and so on. It was ready. It was to be replaced with…

iOS5- Apple’s game-changer or catch-up game?

  first of all, let’s look at ios5’s headline features shall we?– overhauled notifications system, Android-style!– wireless sync!– OTA updates!– Widgets!…and of course quite a number of other features These additions are pretty amazing and means giving users a much larger degree of convenience and freedom. Imagine not having those intrusive notification popups, not having…