CamSpeed App for Windows Phone

CamSpeed is revolutionizing the way we see, literally, the camera and imaging capabilities on our smart phones. It’s no surprise that with a great quality camera strapped into every single phone hitting the market that there is a ton of competition and claims getting thrown around about which cameras are best. The marketers can claim anything they want but the true tests come from the pictures and the users. CamSpeed is basically a testing app for your phone. Although this doesn’t sound like loads of fun, it actually surprisingly is. CamSpeed runs your device through a battery of tests and then lets you view the results and then compare it to other devices.

While allowing you to compare lighting, speed, low light imaging compared to other cameras on other phones you can get a really great idea of how your camera really matches up and if those commercials touting the ability to take pictures in near darkness are based on any truth.

While this isn’t a huge app the information it provides is really great. Especially considering that these phones on the Windows 8 market have huge marketing campaigns based in how great the Nokia line of Windows phone’s cameras are. This really will put them to the test to put their money, or pictures, where there mouths, or advertising is.

This isn’t your Temple Run or Angry Birds, but to see how your camera measures up it is a fun and interesting app to use.

Source: CamSpeed for Windows Phone

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Recordium: Highlight, Annotate, and Edit Voice Recordings

Recording lectures, interviews, or just people talking for sound bites has become another vital function of iOS devices. Their portability has rendered capturing speech incredibly easy. Although the stock app for this is good, there was a lot of room for improvement. This was seen and implemented by Recordium, an app that allows recording to be edited, annotated and even highlighted. It improves in almost every area that there were holes in the stock app and does so in a very user friendly way.

It’s always a tough line to walk where the simplicity of one app turns into gaudy and unnecessary features on the next. It seems Recordium has found a great balance while allowing and introducing new features into the voice recording app while keeping the interface very simple and easy to use. Without the ability to edit these recordings the only choice was to listen through minutes or hours of sound to find out the section you wanted. With the ability to go through and edit, cut, and shorten specific areas of the recording this is no longer a problem. You can now splice out areas of silence, or parts that you don’t need. This not only makes the file shorter, but allows the recording to only consist of what you want and need.

The ability to include annotations is another amazing aspect of Recordium. You can add as many little notes or even pictures to the recording along the parts that you need them to show exactly where relevant areas are and what you might need to remember about them. If you no longer need one, a simple, single tap will remove the tag and you can forget all about it.

The best part of the app is the recording quality control. You can choose which quality you want the recording to be done in which allows massive recordings to only take up miniscule amounts of space. You can also choose to compress the files in MP4 which can make an hour long recording as small as 30 MB.

All of these amazing features coupled with great file sharing to online cloud services makes this app just as useful as it is expansive with features. You can easily transport these to email services or anywhere else you want as well directly from the Recordium app. Right now this app is free, but it will almost surely not stay this way. Try it out for free and start exploring the wonderful world of Recordium for yourself.

Source: Recordium for iPhone

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SntapCamera A Buttonless, Swipe and Tap Based Camera App for iOS

There’s no arguing that Apple’s stock apps are very well built, designed and incredibly practical. One aspect of them that leaves some of us who are in a rush is the multitude of features and options almost every single app has. For example the camera app that comes native with iOS devices often times is just enough not too simple or crazy, but it could be even easier to use. SntapCamera is a free app that was just released for the iOS that can make picture taking and sharing to Facebook even easier.

The key behind SntapCamera’s design is that it is completely buttonless. There is no physical button press needed, and everything that you need to do is able to be accomplished by tapping, holding a press, and sliding your finger. It strips down a camera app to the bare bones, but often times that’s all most camera users want.

A great feature of this app is that from the same viewfinder you can choose to either just tap once and capture that image, or hold a tap to begin a video. This enables the user to go from a picture or a video without having to bring up a menu and deal with a little toggle icon in the midst of the action.

With the most simple, one swipe option to share the picture you just took on Facebook, it couldn’t be an easier ending to the easiest picture you ever captured. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with the iOS stock camera app, but if you ever wanted something really quick and easy just give this free app, SntapCamera a try.

Source: SntapCamera for iOS

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Next Browser: A New Contender to the Android Web Browsing World

The realm of internet browsers in the Android marketplace is riddled with incredibly high quality, high functioning options which would leave even the pickiest user completely satisfied. So, why would anyone attempt to reinvent the wheel and take a stab at this world of already overpopulated greatness? I don’t know, but I’m glad someone did. Next Browser is a new online browsing tool which is quickly showing off its potential after only having been released a couple of days ago. It is fast, free, easy to use, and most importantly incredibly well designed.

It has everything you’ve ever wanted in a browser, tabbed options, complete customization, adjustable search options, a multitude of extensions, and bookmark syncing. It’s basically like if the top three: Firefox, Chrome, and Dolphin had a love child and thus, Next Browser was born. It works so well that with a few tweaks and updates it could become the next household name and the go to option for browsing.

It has the best of all of the worlds in the most easily customized interface I’ve seen. With a great “speed dial” front page to access your most common pages, bookmark selections and everything else you want to see right when you open a browser it comes out of the gates swinging. As of now, it might be hard to say this would be a full replacement for the mighty Dolphin Browser, but it’s a very good attempt and given time and a few adjustments to the bookmark settings and desktop syncing it could very well be just as good.

Source: Next Browser for Android

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Full Screen Technology: How Have Motorola Achieved This?

We’re seeing more and more smartphones that use full screens, or at least something close to them; phone screens are also getting larger and larger, with many phones blurring the distinction between a smartphone and a tablet. Motorola have been an innovator in terms of developing full screen phones, with the Motorola RAZR I representing an excellent example of the technology in use. How, then, have Motorola achieved this, and what does it tell us about the broader smartphone market?

Motorola’s full screen technology effectively involves reducing the amount of handset space devoted to bezel edges and buttons, instead focusing on making the screen as large as possible; the edge to edge screen employed by phones like the RAZR I have dimensions of 4.3 inches, and use Super AMOLED technology. Protective materials are employed to keep the back of the RAZR I secure, with splash guards also incorporated into the phone to prevent damage.

One of the advantages of using full screen technology is that a manufacturer like Motorola can make the most of a handset without having to significantly increase its size to something like Samsung’s ‘phablet’ Note II. Users can still access all of the features of Android on a RAZR I, but without having to rely on extra buttons; this minimalist approach focuses all of a user’s attention onto the touchscreen.

The RAZR I is demonstrating trends towards increasing the potential of smartphone screens – while there is an argument to be made that screens are getting too big, full screen technology means that you still have a relatively normal sized handset, just with more of it covered by the screen. The 4.3 inch screen of the RAZR I isn’t noticeably larger than rivals like the Samsung Galaxy SIII, and doesn’t push into phablet territory.

There is some debate, though, over whether screen size will continue to be so important to manufacturers as they look to distinguish themselves in the future. Samsung have certainly made strides in terms of the Note and the Samsung Galaxy SII and SIII, with the size of their phones’ screens being typically larger than Apple, who have so far managed to resist supersizing their screens to the same degree.

What phones like the RAZR I demonstrate is that you can have a full screen experience without creating a clunky handset – Motorola are also showcasing their full screen, edge to edge technology in the RAZR HD, which has a 4.7 inch screen, and removes even more of the bezel of the phone than the RAZR I. It’s likely that the RAZR HD will complement the RAZR I, while still benefiting from increasing screen size without making it too difficult to actually hold either phones’ handsets.

Much of what you get from a full screen phone experience depends on your preference – some people still prefer to have tactile buttons for returning to a home screen, and for switching a phone on and off. Others, however, are more inclined towards the tablet like touchscreen experience of a full screen smartphone, where you can be more intuitive in how you use Android to access different features on your phone.

About the author :

Rosette is a mobile fanatic,she is currently working to raise awareness of the RAZR I .She likes to check out the latest mobiles phones and apps.

Legato: The New Music Player and Music Discovery App

Discovering new music is one of the great joys of listening to music in the first place. Even though we all probably have a a few songs we could listen to on repeat day after day after day for hours on end, there is always a need for new and great music in our lives. The new app for iOS devices, Legato, hopes to help do just that. Part streamlined and sleek music player, and part music discovery app, Legato goes to a place that some other apps have attempted to, but in a more reasonable way.

The way Legato separates itself from the rest of the pack is with the social networking side of music discovery made simple. Your friends often times listen to music you like and more often than not they are the ones who introduce you to new songs and artists anyway. Legato goes off of that by making songs played by anyone using the app available for others to view. This means you can see and listen to whatever your friends are listening to as well. From there you can choose to download, or rate the songs so you can see at a later time which ones you liked.

Although the app is not fully integrated with social networking platforms yet, once it does it will be a lot more effective at linking together the people we know and the music they listen to. As of now though the functionality of Legato is still a great music player, and as more and more people download and use it, the music discovery aspect will grow lager and larger.

Simply sharing the songs you listen to for others to see and getting the benefit of seeing what your friends are listening to has never been easier. Just listen to your songs as you would normally and Legato does everything else for you. This app is free and there is nothing to lose, only new music to gain.

 Source: Legato for iPhone

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