To honour the launch of Path 2.0, easily one of the most beautiful Android (and iOS) apps released to date, we’d like to give a shout-out to five beautifully-designed Android apps. While Android has always been me-too sibling in the mobile platform rivalry, especially when it comes to app design, there are a few fastidious [...]
This winter, it’s going to be hard to choose from so many devices, so we’re breaking it down by network. Rogers users have a lot of choice, but we’d recommend one device over all others: Winner: Samsung Galaxy S II LTE This phone has all the great things we want in a smartphone: a gorgeous Super [...]
Can’t get better than free these days. Santa Dash was just made available in the BlackBerry App World. It’ll help pass the time this holiday season. “Help guide Santa and his reindeer across the rooftops while avoiding chimneys or crashing into the buildings or the ground below, all while managing Santa’s speed. With the sugar-rush [...]
Well, this didn’t take long… the scaled down Sony Ericsson Xperia ray was only released a couple weeks ago. Future Shop has dropped it to free on a 3-year this week – a solid entry-level and incredibly thin Android smartphone. Something to consider. Read our full review here. Tweet
As the holiday season nears, we’re going to run an occasional series called Stuff We Like. In this edition, we look at extended batteries. Everyone runs out of juice. Whether you’re taking too many photos or chatting away for hours, your smartphone battery has a finite life. Unless you want to constantly be near a [...]
The holiday rush is happening and a new poll by RBC reminds us that there are only 32 shopping days left. Their new study shows that Canadians are planning to spend an average of $640 on gifts this year, up from $624 last year. RBC also states that some people will go over budget, causing [...]
Probably one of the classic holiday stories is A Charlie Brown Christmas, this has been around for eons and is keeping its tradition alive by making it available on the iPad. Beyond just a book, the app has an interactive portion to it as you can get your kids to catch snowflakes, plus it has [...]
This is a good way to start the holidays off. Walmart has decided to cut the BlackBerry PlayBook pricing. Looks like this will go into place later this week, hitting Quebec first on the 16th, then the rest of Canada on the 18th until the 24th. The flyer says the prices will be as follows: [...]
When the bar is set as high as Apple has kept it at for the last four years, nothing short of a complete redesign would have satiated the teeming masses. When the iPhone 4S was announced it was greeted by some with steely ambivalence (“I’ll wait and see”) and by others with outright dismissal (“I’m [...]
When Microsoft decided to create a new mobile operating system, it had a few key things in mind: keep it simple, fast and touch-friendly. Windows Phone 7 looked nothing like the desktop-emulating Windows Mobile that it had been shoehorning onto touchscreen devices for years. It offered a usage model big on expansive, horizontal frames, swiping [...]