Smartphones whatever the make and whatever the operating system have one thing that they all have in common, they only have a finite amount of memory.  We take pictures, we store music we like to listen to and we download numerous apps that look fun to play with, help us with everyday tasks and keep our lives running just how we want.

The problem is though that word I used “finite”, we don’t have an infinite amount of space on our phones and if we just let it keep on filling up the…

As the iPhone is made better and better and the operating system is improved Apple offer you more tools and functionality to make your photography not only fun but more productive.  It can be argued that Apple have gone a long way in making the smartphone one of the leading ways to take pictures, other phone makers have done this too of course.  For all budding photographers who are starting out with smartphones the future is very good.

One of the most fun types of imagery manipula…

Siri and its voice are now fairly synonymous with the iPhone, for both entertaining and informative reasons.  It’s a voice activated system that allows you to ask it information as well as interact with your phone and now with the most current version of the iOS even connect with Social Media.

Around the world though the voice of Siri changes; depending where you are you can in fact change the voice to accommodate your language.  Sometimes for example if you are in America why not …

The iPhone has many features that people either don’t know or have no use of.  They can differ from each version of the phone but sometimes we find that we have uses for them.  From using the more recent phones as a flashlight by using the camera flash to finding hidden Easter Eggs in Siri’s answers to your questions these can be quite fun to find.

One of the hidden features is not that big, but for people who either want to have images from their phone, or capture an error sometimes…

There is nothing as bothersome as cold callers and unwanted phone calls from people you just don’t want to hear from.  Whether it be from some company trying to sell your life insurance, your bank trying to give you a better account, somebody trying to sell you something or just an unwanted friend who you don’t want to hear from anymore when you don’t want these calls you should be able to just black list them on your phone right?

Well no, the problem with smart phones is that they d…

Smartphones can be very helpful, especially the iPhone.  They can tell you when emails arrive, tell you when messages are sent and of course tell you when a call is arriving.  This is of course the main tasks we want our phones to do, we want to know when people are trying to get in contact with us.

Sometimes though, we want our phones to remain silent, to let us do other things without being constantly annoyed.  It can be by vibrations or audio prompts that something has arrived tha…

Angry Birds is a gaming phenomenon quickly turning into one of the most popular games on smart phones and tablets.  People go crazy trying to get the highest score possible and to beat their friends and say that they got so far and of course they have their saved games that are treasured, to lose these would be a sad day, especially people who have managed to get to later levels.

Lucky for the android there is hope, it’s possible to save the Angry Bird saved games by backing them up.…

iPhones can be fun, you can play games on them, listen to music and there are apps that will let you do whatever you want on it.  The one problem it can have though is battery life.  All those apps with all the pretty graphics and all the sounds tend to waste battery life and it’s probably the most critical resource the phone has.

One thing you can do of course is look at saving some battery by looking at some of the services that are turned on that could be turned off.  Do you need …

The iPhone has had many apps to turn it into a flashlight.  This was done simply by making the main screen itself as bright as possible, which of course is a nice to have at times and you even see smartphones used like this in films.  Thing is the iPhone 4 can do this without even having to have an app installed to do it.

This little trick is made possible because it actually uses the cameras LED flash instead of using the main screen.  There are apps now though that do this for you …