RIM’s PlayBook hasn’t exactly been a raging success like the company (and many BlackBerry enthusiasts) had hoped. Still, the company is slaving away on the upcoming PlayBook OS 2.1 update. The latest feature to be revealed is something that sounds pretty essential, and frankly we’re surprised it wasn’t included from the get-go — multi-tasking/multi-window Android apps in the Android Player Runtime. With the new OS, Android apps will act much…
Apple’s attempts to expunge as much Google-based products and services as possible took a larger turn back when iPhoto for iOS back in early March. It was then that Apple officially dumped Google Maps mapping data for location based picture information, and in its place using OpenStreetMap’s data. While the open source nature of OpenStreetMap makes it free to use, Apple had thus far failed to give any credit to the company or the many people that provide mapping…
Facebook’s “Facebook for Every Phone” featurephone app appears to beginning some Instagram-esque inspiration by way of two new photo filters — Black & White and Sepia — that can be applied to uploaded photos. Though, how reliant the featurephone app was on Instagram’s recent $1 billion acquisition by the social networking giant is uncertain as a spokesperson speaking with InsiderFacebook stated that “no one from the Instagram…
Spotify subscribers and iPad owners can finally delete that ugly (on the iPad at least) iPhone Spotify app from their iPad. Spotify has officially released the new, iPad-specific app designed for Apple’s 9.7-inch wonder tablet. The app is far from a simple re-skin/port as it features a completely redone UI that is frankly one of the best looking iPad apps we’ve seen yet. As you’ll see in the video below, navigating the new iPad Spotify app is quite…
UPDATE: Are you interested in being a part of the Lima beta test? If so, then RT or tweet this article on Twitter using the #GadgetsteriaRocks tag to enter! I’ve got several codes to giveaway, and I’m sure we’re going to see lots of activity so good luck to all of you! What’s special about today? Well, aside from being payday here at GS, it’s a day that I get to review something for free! Among other things, it was the day that the…
Our current Twitter client of choice, Tweetbot, received a rather stout 2.3 update today, bringing with it a packed back full of UI tweaks, new integration options and new gestures. The biggest and most notable visual change now occurs on the single tweet view. Now as soon as you enter a single tweet you are presented with monochrome-ish icons for replying, RT’ing, etc. From the single-tweet view above you can now also swipe left-to-right to get back to the main…
