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Gmail vs Yahoo Mail for iPhone: Two Alternative Email Apps Compared

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One of the great aspects of the native Mail app for the iPhone and iPod Touch is that it supports different email services, including popular ones like Gmail and Yahoo. However, there are also native apps for these email services that offer a few interesting features. Let’s take a look at both the native Yahoo [...]

Google Hangouts for iOS: A Great (But Limited) New Communications App for Google Users

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Recently, Google announced Hangouts for iOS, a heavily rumored (and finally realized) iPhone and iPad application with a focus on unified messaging across different iOS devices, tablets and smartphones running Android software, as well as the web. Contrary to what other dedicated messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage offer, Google Hangouts positions itself as more [...]

iOS Calendar vs Calvetica: Does the Native iOS Calendar Need a Replacement?

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I don’t know about you, but for me, the calendar on my iPhone is one of the most important applications to help me get my daily workflow organized. I’m not a guy with a full schedule by any means though, it’s just that having a centralized app where I can view all my upcoming appointments [...]

iOS Music App vs Track 8: Two Radically Different Music Players for iPhone Compared

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Music is, for a lot of users, perhaps one of the most important aspects of their smartphones. On the iPhone this is no exception, and in fact, the iPod aspect of the iPhone was the very first feature to be demoed by Steve Jobs when the iPhone was revealed in 2007. Since then, the native [...]

iCab vs Chrome for iOS: Can the Best Paid iOS Browser Compete Against Google’s Free Offering?

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Ever since Chrome was released for iOS devices, it has gained a lot of popularity and has been adopted by a huge number of iPhone, iPod and iPad owners who also use it on their desktop or laptop computers. This fast adoption though, has taken the spotlight away from other very capable web browsers out [...]

YouTube and Jasmine: iPhone YouTube Apps Compared

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As you surely know, YouTube is by far the most popular video sharing website out there, with its popularity only increasing even more with the arrival of mobile devices like the iPhone and the iPad. Naturally, after Apple excised the native YouTube app from iOS, the healthy app ecosystem of the App Store started brimming [...]

2 Great iOS Apps for Sending Cards That You Can Use This Mother’s Day

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Mother’s day is on this Sunday, which means most of us will have to make some preparations to make sure she has the best day possible. Sometimes though, all it takes is a tiny little detail to light up her day. So, if for some reason you are not able to make any preparations or [...]

Top 3 Free Camera Apps for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad)

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As the cameras on the iPhone (and iOS devices like iPad) and other smartphones have improved substantially over the years, a lot of people have started to use them as they main point and shoot (here are a few tips for some great shots if you phone camera is your main one as well). Apple [...]

Twitter vs Tweetbot: Two Popular iOS Twitter Apps Compared

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There is no doubt that Twitter in itself is a phenomenon. However, with the ease of access that mobile devices bring, it has truly exploded to become an entirely new way of communicating. As a result of this, Apple decided to embed Twitter in iOS, making it an essential part of the mobile operating system [...]

A Review of EasilyDo, a Useful Task Assistant for iPhone

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Time management methodologies never get old. People want to be more productive and to accomplish more things in less time. We already covered some to-do apps for the iPhone (in this post and in this one as well) that use these methodologies. However, the great advantage but also the great flaw of to-do apps, is [...]

iMessage vs WhatsApp: The 2 Most Popular iOS Messaging Apps Compared

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By default, the iPhone and other iOS devices come with the iMessage app installed. This application, as its name states, allows iOS device owners to send messages to other users who own Apple devices. However, there are other applications in the App Store that provide iOS device owners with other features, like being able to [...]

Convertbot vs Amount: Best Paid iPhone Conversion Apps Compared

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Being a small, portable computer more than just a phone, the iPhone has become a true multipurpose device that can perform even complex tasks like image editing and spreadsheet management. However, its is with simpler, more straightforward tasks that it really shines. A clear example of this is how popular weather, calculator and exchange apps [...]

Phone vs Dialvetica: Can the Native iOS Phone App be Replaced?

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During the introduction of the iPhone in the January of 2007, Steve Jobs said: What’s the killer app? The killer app is making calls!” He was of course, referring to how difficult it was to actually make calls on most smartphones of that time. Then, the iPhone’s interface for making calls (now known simply as [...]

Pocket vs Readability: Comparing 2 Excellent, Free Read-Later Apps For iOS

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Finding content on the web and being able to save it for later is a great convenience. This is why services like Clipboard, Keeeb and other similar tools exist. Just like these, there are also “read later” services that focus primarily on saving long articles (or even short ones if we are on a hurry) [...]