We love both mobile operating systems and their corresponding devices, but just like Android has its many advantages so does iOS. Here are our favorite parts of iOS that outdo their Android counterparts. More »
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Top 10 Ways iOS Outdoes Android [Lifehacker Top 10]
Posted on May 21, 2011
Texty Sends Text Messages from Google Chrome Using Your Phone Number (and We’ve Got Beta Invites) [Downloads]
Posted on May 5, 2011
Android/Chrome: No one likes texting on small, autocorrect-prone phone keyboards. Texty connects your phone to Google Chrome, letting you send and receive SMS messages right from the extension bar. More »
mSpot Ups Its Streaming Music Storage to 5 GB [In Brief]
Posted on March 31, 2011
mSpot, the stream-your-own-music service that covers Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS, has raised the online storage for its free accounts to 5 GB. It is, of course, a challenge to Amazon’s Cloud Drive/Cloud Player debut, but mSpot does have more developed apps, both in uploading and mobile streaming, than Amazon at the moment. [mSpot] More »
Yap Is Free Voicemail Transcription That’s Super Easy to Set Up [Downloads]
Posted on March 23, 2011
Android/iOS: If having your voicemail transcribed, emailed, and available for visual review is the most appealing aspect of Google Voice, you might consider Yap Voicemail. It's free on Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, it might do speech-to-text better than Google Voice, and pretty much anyone can set it up in 2 minutes. More »
Our Biggest Android Annoyances and How to Fix Them [Annoyances]
Posted on January 20, 2011
What’s Your Biggest Annoyance with Android (and How Did You Fix It)? [Ask The Readers]
Posted on January 19, 2011
Android is constantly improving, but Google's phone platform still hosts a few annoyances and not-quite-there features. We're wondering what your biggest issue with your phone is—and if you found an app or another fix to make it much better. More »
Perfect Browser Adds Tabs, Gestures, and More to iOS, Is the Ultimate iPad Browser [Downloads]
Posted on January 5, 2011
iOS: Safari is an okay browser on the iPhone, but it’s surprisingly unsatisfactory on the much larger-screened iPad. Perfect Browser completely changes the iOS browsing experience, bringing tabbed browsing, user agent control, touch screen gestures, and hyper fast scrolling to your fingertips. More »
RunKeeper Pro—Our Favorite Mobile Running App—Is Free Through January, Normally $10 [Downloads]
Posted on December 30, 2010
Google eBookstore Opens with 3 Million Titles, Free Android and iOS Reader Apps [Ebooks]
Posted on December 6, 2010
Google’s thrown open the doors to an online bookstore stocked with over 3 million titles, which you can store and read in the cloud as if they were Gmail messages. Google’s also offering free reading apps for Android and iOS devices. More »
Touchscreen-Friendly Agloves Keep Your Phone-Wielding Hands in Warmth [Stuff We Like]
Posted on November 11, 2010
Winter's coming, and with it comes OTD, the Outdoor Touchscreen Dilemma—is it worth taking your gloves off to send a text message? Agloves look like a nice meeting point between warmth, non-geeky looks, and finger-to-screen conductivity. More »