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Motorola PHOTON 4G is the hottest phone on Sprint

August 17th, 2011

The Motorola PHOTON 4G boasts what I feel is the greatest spec list of any phone on Sprint today.

I have been waiting for quite a long time for a full featured ‘Super Phone’ to show up and blow away the competition!

Currently I am rocking the HTC Hero. A great phone…until you get hold of some of these new devices that is.

I was completely blown away by the speed of the PHOTON!

The camera alone gives a new definition to ‘point and shoot’. My Hero currently has a ‘Point and Wait’ camera. This is really good, if you like waiting until the entire shot is gone, before the photo is taken. The video gives you a taste of how powerful the PHOTON is. (yes…that’s an HD Dock!)

You deserve to be lightning fast. Up to 10x faster than 3G, the Motorola PHOTON 4G from Sprint allows you to download media in seconds, even a concert from your girlfriend at Wembley Stadium. Enjoy multitasking around the world with no interruptions as Motorola PHOTON 4G delivers the speed you want when you want it. Click here to learn more: http://moto.ly/photonlfyt

p.s. Did you know that the PHOTON is “Webtop Enabled‘? This is huge… literally!

This post is sponsored by Motorola

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Posted in Apps, Gadgets, Mobile

Tags: android applications Google motorola smartphone Windows Mobile

Google’s Photovine for iOS now open to all

August 17th, 2011

Photovine is the cool photo story creation app just opened to the Apple Market for all to use.

Apparently Google’s Slide team has been hard at work perfecting this cool photo meme creation app that appears to have sparked a lot of interest lately.

So what is Photovine? It’s a photo-sharing application for iOS that puts an emphasis on “vines”. That is, photo-centric moments or ideas that connect you with other users. Yes, that sounds a bit pretentious. And the best way to understand it is to watch the video below. But think of it this way: you take a picture of your favorite cologne. This prompts another user to take a picture of their favorite fragrances. And that prompts another user to do the same. Etc. It’s more or less theme-based picture-taking.
This is an interesting concept because it spurs users into action. With an open-ended picture app you can take a picture of anything, and to some users, that’s daunting. What do you take a picture of when you can take a picture of anything? With Photovine, the experience is more guided. Or, if you wish to take a picture of anything, you can simply start your own vine.

source: techcrunch.com

Check out Photovine in the App Store

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Posted in Apps, Mobile, Photos

Tags: applications Google iOS iPhone iphone app photo sharing smartphone

Kindle Cloud Reader trumps Apple rules

August 10th, 2011

Score one for Amazon in their battle with unrealistic rules from Apple and their app store regulations.

Kindle Cloud Reader is an optimized web-browser based Kindle reader, for iPads and Google Chrome and even Apple Safari.

Support for additional browsers coming soon.
On an iPhone or other unsupported device? Check out our free Kindle reading applications

All of this Amazon Kindle goodness is made possible by delivering your books from the Amazon cloud and rendering them in HTML5. You can also download new books and read them offline.