The only issue with turn-by-turn navigation on your smartphone is the abrupt interruption you experience with navigation when you receive or place a call. On a recent trip one of my iPhone fiends elected to carry his iPod Touch in addition to his iPhone as a dedicated navigation device once cradled in the TomTom Car Kit for iPhone.
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After months of waiting and complaining finally sat rad player allows Windows Phone 7 users to listen to satellite radio on a Windows Phone 7 device. Anyone that has followed this site knows that I am a huge Opie and Anthony fan and therefore a fan of SiriusXM Satellite Radio. For whatever reason SiriusXM has yet to put out an official satellite radio application however sat rad player has pretty much made that problem irrelevant.
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It was bound to happen… So many BlackBerry users have stated that would never leave the BlackBerry because of BlackBerry Messenger that you knew it was only a matter of time before Apple came out with their own proprietary, iOS only, instant messaging application. Today at WWDC Apple introduced iMessage which will be available to all iOS 5 or later devices.
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If you use a BlackBerry Playbook you may fall in love with the size or usability of just become enamored by the desktop like web experience. If you have not considered the BlackBerry PlayBook as a tablet option, you need to reconsider here are 5 things we love about the PlayBook.
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Zinio provides a subscription service for digital magazines which you can access via a Windows, Mac, Linux, web browser, iOS and now Android. While RIM’s Playbook does not have a native Zinio app the Playbook Web Browser allow you to easily access your magazine subscriptions.
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Amazon Cloud Player is a free 5 GB or 20 GB of online storage for Amazon customers to store and stream music and it just so happens to work on the BlackBerry Playbook. If you have an Amazon logon you get 5GB of storage, however if you purchase one digital album you are given 20 GB of storage. Amazon Cloud Drive, which hosts Cloud Player can store music, video, pictures, or files so they are accessible from any connected device.
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No one likes to be ordered around however turn-by-turn navigation software has become an indispensible resource to many travelers. As of the writing of this article, Android is the only smartphone platform that ships with a free turn by turn GPS navigation application. If you carry an iPhone, it is likely you have considered TomTom, Navigon, Garmin, and other turn-by-turn solutions, Well, now you need to consider MotionX GPS Drive.
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I received an excellent message today from Zinio.com, the purveyor of digital magazines. Until this point in time, with the recent exceptions of availability on a couple of Dell tablets and the European Galaxy Tab devices, it has been no joy for Android users. I considered getting rid of the service as I really wanted Zinion on my Android Tablet. However, this announcement today changes all
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With the number of devices we can charge over over USB how can you resist a 16,000 mAh 5 port USB portable battery charger for under $80. We have been huge fans of Energizer XPal line of portable chargers specifically the Energizer XP18000. When I initially saw the i.Sound Power Max with 16,000 mAH it was the 5 USB ports that highlighted the charging potential of this device.
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