I used to love my FRS. I didn’t have to pay for anything; I could talk to people a fair distance away — and it always reminded me of playing with walkie talkies as a kid. Good times. Well, those days are gone. The iPhone/Android app HeyTell has put the proverbial smackdown on my FRS use — when it comes to other HeyTell users, anyway.
If you want an easy way to stream media from your home computer to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, and want it to be free, you’re going to want to check out ZumoCast. It appeared in the app store on September 8th, and it has been awesome ever since! Read more
A couple of days ago, we looked at five awesome iPad apps for consuming content. Since content consumption is where the iPad really shines, a list of five apps doesn’t do the iPad justice. So, here are five more great content consumption apps to liven up your iPad.
Engadget posted an interesting article yesterday, pondering whether carriers are destroying Android, by preloading Android devices with “bloatware.” The article compared this to what happened in the PC industry, where computer vendors loaded all sorts of crapware on machines, filling up the drive and slowing the system down.
It’s deja vu all over again for mobile phones. More and more devices I look at are coming installed with applications I don’t want, often popping up messages to try and upsell me on services I have no interest in. Even worse, unlike PCs where offensive applications can be removed or the OS reinstalled cleanly, there’s often nothing that can be done to get rid of unwanted mobile software without arduous work.
The iPhone certainly restricts what apps can get into the App Store, but at least the user isn’t forced to keep an undesirable program on the phone (aside from the basics, like the App Store app, the Photo app, Mail, etc.). Or is it worse to not have access to certain apps at all, like on the iPhone?
You tell us – what is worse, a smartphone where you can’t even get certain applications because of a restrictive app review process, or a smartphone preloaded with garbage that you can’t remove?
Entelligence: Will carriers destroy the Android vision? [Engadget]
Photo by svensonsan.
The iPad can be hammered and molded into a content creation device, but not without compromises. Where the iPad really shines is as a content consumption device. Whether it be watching video, browsing your Twitter feed, or listening to music, there does seem to be an app for everything. Here are 10 of our favorite apps for consuming content.
