Category: App World

Unabridged New York Times coming to Flipboard?

Flipboard users would soon have full access to New York Times full content. NYT subscribers, who earlier could access its digital content only through their official website or dedicated iOS and Android apps, would now be able to access full content on the popular iOS reader app, Flipboard. Read more

Instaglasses concept makes the world your Instagram album

After gaining a huge popularity through Facebook buyout, Instagram now has more than 50 million users including both iOS and Android platform. Markus Gerkes designed a concept that might just take the Instagram craze to a new high. Read more

App Review : Pocket, formerly Read It Later

This is an application you would love to download. It’s because it provides you what you want in each and every factors! If you find good sentence, article or picture on Web but want to have saved to read it later then you won’t have to copy paste and save it, just Pocket it! Even videos are saved! How interesting is that? Check out detailed review to find out. Read more

Temple Run comes to Android, available for free on Google Play Store?

Imagi Studio’s Temple Run has been a super hit on the iOS with more than 45 million downloads. After a long wait, the game has finally reached Android and is now available for free on the new Google Play Store. Read more

QuickPix for iPhone allows you to snap photos while recording videos

When it comes to photography using iPhone, many users prefer apps instead of the default iOS camera apps. Of the various iOS camera apps available in the AppStore, QuickPix has some exclusive and some cool features to boast. Read more

Xbox LIVE iOS app launched

Microsoft has launched an iOS app for its Xbox LIVE community. The app allows Xbox LIVE users to stay connected with their friends on the community wherever they are. LIVE users can check full profile of other users, send/receive messages, change their 3D avatar and compare achievements with friends. The app also features Xbox Spotlight, games news and reviews, video demos, trips and tricks and other features. Read more

Windows Phone Marketplace now has over 40,000 apps

In over a year of its introduction, The Windows Phone Marketplace has crossed the 40,000 app mark. The number comes as reported by All About Windows Phone, comes from their own app tracker. According to their estimates, Windows Phone Marketplace is growing at a rate of 165 apps per day. Read more

BlackBerry BBX Demo video shows Android apps running on PlayBook

Last week, Research In Motion announced its new software platform BBX which is said to support Android Apps. Now, one of the developers working on developer beta of BBX 2.0 has released a video which shows Android apps running on BlackBerry Playbook. The video shows a folder named ‘Android Apps’ which consist of apps like IM+ Pro, IMDb, Gmail, Amazon Kindle, Kik Messenger, TweetCaster Pro, Winamp, Google Places and Opera Mobile. PlayBook’s ability to run Android apps has been in RIM’s talks for some time. Now that the feature has reached developer edition of BBX, RIM may release the feature to consumers in coming months. See the Android Apps running on PlayBook in the video after the jump. Read more

Facebook launches iPad app, updates iPhone app

Facebook’s long awaited iPad app has now been released. Facebook updated its iPhone app on Monday which is designed to work on iPad too. The app has been speculated to various release dates and delays. But it is finally here and offers everything from status updates to social gaming.

Along with the iPhone/iPod Touch app update and iPad app, Facebook also released its new mobile website. The Facebook app supports multi-touch gestures, a feature that was missing in the mobile website. It supports swipe to scroll through News Feeds and Photo Albums, and pinch to zoom. The app integrates all social games of Facebook including the most popular Zynga Farmville. It allows users to take pictures and videos and upload them directly to their Facebook profile and also view them in full screen. And it integrates Facebook chat too. The same features have also been integrated into Facebook’s iPhone app.

Facebook for iPad is free and available for download on iTunes. Check the official Facebook for iPad announcement here.

BlackBerry Messenger for Android leaked in pictures

RIM’s popular instant messaging service BlackBerry Messenger, popularly known as BBM amongst the BlackBerry boys, may no more be limited to BlackBerry phones. If the leaked image above is to be believed, BBM may soon come to Android devices. Read more