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Essential Windows Phone 7 Apps

Mr. Review — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:33:24 +0000

Windows Phone 7 is home to many beautiful apps but which ones are the best? We got ‘em all for you right here.

Essential iPad Apps

Mr. Review — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:31:16 +0000

You’ve seen the commercials; Apps are what makes an iPad come to life. Here are the very best ones for work, play, creation, consumption and everything in between.

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HP TouchPad Review

Mr. Review — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:04:13 +0000

Tablets. There is the iPad, and there is everything else. The TouchPad is the first tablet that could be truly something more than everything else. The TouchPad gets it. The big ideas, like Synergy (HP’s webOS cloud service) and the Card interface, make sense. The details, like the seamless connection between the TouchPad and Pre3 smartphone, make sense. That puts it way ahead of everything else, at least conceptually.

The TouchPad, for the uninitiated, is the first tablet running Palm’s webOS, some elegant software we’ve really liked on phones—making it the fourth major tablet. It’s also Palm’s first major product since being swallowed by HP, a harbinger of everything to come afterward. HP plans to build a giant software empire on top of webOS’s back, using it to power everything from printers to, uh, PCs.

Full Review here.

Best iPhone Apps Of The Week

Mr. Review — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:21:59 +0000

Leafsnap: Leafsnap is the smartphone user’s secret weapon to a more meaningful relationship with trees. It’s incredibly simple and strangely addictive: find a tree, grab a leaf, snap a picture. The app scans its outline-parsing criteria like smooth or jagged edges, single- or many-lobed-and tells you what tree it thinks it came from. It’s similar to the “whoa! this is the future” feeling you get when you deposit a check via smartphone.

See the rest of this week’s best iPhone apps

Android Apps Of the Week

Mr. Review — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:15:29 +0000

Swiftkey X Beta: It’s a fantastic keyboard replacement app. SwiftKey can scan SMS messages, Twitter timelines, Facebook statuses and Gmail to learn your writing style. And it can personalize your experience by letting you choose your own typing style. SwiftKey’s always been pretty great and this new “next generation fluency inference engine” might be its best version yet. Free.

See the rest of this week’s best Android apps

iPad Apps Of The Week

Mr. Review — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:15:05 +0000

Jackass: Tens Years of Stupid: Jackass: Ten Years of Stupid for iPad is a behind the scenes look of the biggest Jackasses we know: Knoxville, Steve-O, Pontius, Wee-Man, etc. There’s video clips, gross photos, and essays on the entire history of Jackass. It’s awesome to re-watch some of the epic skits, look back on the history and see the creative-yeah, I said creative-process behind the show. There’s also two super simple games to waste your time on too. $5

See the rest of this week’s best iPad apps

Best Android Apps

Mr. Review — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:49:28 +0000

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Samsung Infuse 4G Review

Mr. Review — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:47:43 +0000

We’re just getting into the swing of spring, flowers blooming and skeeters biting, but already it’s been a great year for Samsung — if we ignore the whole lawsuit thing. Just a few weeks ago the company delivered to us our highest scoring Android phone yet, the Galaxy S II and, while that handset has not appeared on American shores, we were graced with the Droid Charge, which offers LTE speed, strong battery life, and an on-contract price that slightly exceeds its design.

Not so with the company’s latest assault on American carriers. It’s the Infuse 4G, it’s $199 on-contract, and it has a decidedly high-end feel. It even looks a little like the S II — if you squint. This is its own phone, though, a giant 4.5-inch screen setting it apart from its predecessors, and a giant battery inside giving it plenty of life. But is it really as good as it looks?

full review here

Best iPad Apps

Mr. Review — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:46:09 +0000

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Windows 8 Preview

Mr. Review — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:16:28 +0000

Still a year or more from final release, the next version of Windows has been making its fair share of appearances on leak sites in recent months. Codenamed Windows Next, the OS release we’ve come to know as Windows 8 will look much like its recent predecessors on the surface, but looks to be getting a serious revamp from the kernel up.

The rumors are coming in fast but, as with any unreleased software, it’s hard to be certain which of the rumored features will make it into the final product, which will wind up on the cutting room floor, and which never existed in the first place. We’ve taken a look at all the rumors, all the leaked screenshots, and a few screens we’re pretty sure were flat-out faked, and we’re ready to make a few prognostications about what to expect in Windows 8. We’ll approach this category-by-category.

Read the list here.