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Weekly Highlights: App Store, Lumia 1020, and Gen C |

Posted by Unknown Senin, 15 Juli 2013 0 komentar

This week, our site suffered some server issues, meaning we were down most of Tuesday and lost a chunk of Monday's stories into the either. It was unfortunate, but it speaks to the pace of this industry that when I came to put together this week's round up of the best stories and features, that there were still plenty to choose from.

To kick us off, a birthday: the fifth anniversary of Apple launching the App Store. David Murphy paid tribute to the store, and some of the industry's best and brightest shared their thoughts on how vital the App Store has been to the modern mobile landscape.

If you need any further proof of that - or just fancy feeling really old all of a sudden - read Kirsty Styles' account of her conversation with a couple of representatives from the younger end of Generation C.

This week also saw rumours of a budget iPhone; Weve's mobile marketing business announcing a £500,000 deal with Heineken; and a major update to Google's Maps and Offers products drawing the two closer together.

Finally, Nokia today unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 handset, the Lumia 1020, which boasts a 41MP camera. Immediately, conversation turned to whether this could be the flagship device to turn around the fortunes of the manufacturer, and so we once again turned to a few industry experts for their opinion.

Speaking personally, I'm unconvinced how much attention consumers actually pay to specs when they're picking out a phone. If this week has had a single theme, it's been the importance of software over hardware. It's hard to imagine the aforementioned teenagers picking up a phone with such a powerful camera when - as pointed out by Ovum's Tony Cripps - it can't run Instagram.

Thanks for reading, and have a good weekend. We'll be back Monday with the latest news and features.

Alex Spencer

Online Editor

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Things You Should Do When You Buy a New Smartphone

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 17 Mei 2013 0 komentar

At one point in time we get to buy a new smartphone, these smartphones are not like the phones we use back in the day when we only receive calls and send text messages. Smartphones do much more and therefore what you do to when purchase a 21 century smartphone is quite different from that of the old time phone.

Let say you got a new Blackberry smartphone or an Android or Apple smartphone, there are lists of things you should consider doing immediately. Some of these things will be a life saver at some point in the near future especially in an era where phone theft is a huge business for some people. Below, I have highlighted these things that we sometime take for granted and overlook until something happens to the smartphone. These things that one must do are quite easy and sensible if you look at it.

THINGS YOU SHOULD DO WHEN YOU BUY A NEW SMARTPHONE

1. First thing first is to setup your device as new and input the email address you want to associate with the device. Choose the email that you use most frequently use and make sure its well secured.

2. Next is to open an account that will allow you download and install apps on your smartphone. For Android device users, you will definitely need a Google account setup on the device, without a Google account, you won't be able to download anything from Google Play Store.

For Apple device users, you will need to create Apple account and the same goes for Blackberry and Windows Phone device users.

3. Next step is to connect your device to your computer and sync with a desktop manager. This will help register your device as personal as it can be. For example, Apple devices uses iTunes to manage their devices, Blackberry uses Blackberry Desktop Manager. With this, you would familiarize yourself with the way to backup, transfer between device and computer. Also, if you have contacts from Outlook, it will be easy to import instead of having to re-transfer all contacts from your current phone. Backing up your contacts locally can't be overstressed and its more secured than backing up in the cloud.

4. Once you have done the things listed above, the next thing is to install certain apps. The first on the list is a tracking and security apps. For users of Apple devices, Find My iPhone is a good one, not the best though. For users of Blackberry devices, Blackberry Protect should be installed. If you have an Android device, Androidlost should be installed.

All these tracking apps are free and do their best to help get your device back in case it was stolen or lost.

5. Now, you can start installing other applications as you need them.

6. I know its customary for some people to throw away the pack of their smartphone and lose their purchase receipt after unboxing. However, i would suggest that you do not throw it away as it contains information like your IMEI and a proof of ownership. This will come in handy if you need to totally block a device that has been stolen. With your IMEI number, you can request your network carrier to place a ban on the device so that it becomes unusable in the country. This is very important.

There it is folks, this list may not be enough but it should suffice for now.
If there are other things you want me to add to the list, please feel free to suggest it.

*All these apps can be downloaded from the web mostly from different preloaded App Store app on the smartphone.

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Win $500 - $10, 000 App Store Gift Card Now

Posted by Unknown Kamis, 02 Mei 2013 0 komentar

Now is your chance to win a lot of money just by downloading an app from the Apple App Store.

Yes you read it right. Apple says App Store download is approaching 50 billion downloads and therefore would be giving out a cool $10, 000 worth of gift card to anyone that download the app that will make it 50 billionth download.

This means that if App Store download is 49, 999, 999, 999, the downloader of the 50 billionth app will receive $10, 000 gift card.

Also another 50 persons that download 50 apps after the 50 billionth app will receive $500 worth of gift card.

It doesn't matter if the download is a paid or free app. All that matter is that the download is made either from iTunes or App Store from device.

This is Apple rewarding its fans. So, hurry up and enter the game and who knows, you could just be that winner Apple is looking for.

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How To Fix Blank App Store Update Page

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 30 April 2013 0 komentar

Many people that recently updated their devices to the new iOS 6.1.3 have been facing numerous problems. One of them is the inability to update applications that needed updates from the App Store.

Usually, when the App Store is launched, updates page should reveal apps that needs to be updated and when you tap on those apps, the update should begin.

However, what we found was that, when the App Store is lunched, other pages like Featured, Top Charts, Genius and Search page displays information correctly. But when the Updates tab is tapped, it comes up blank.

This issue is not only for iOS 6.1.3 but was also noticed from iOS 6.0 - 6.1.2.