Vodafone and O2’s 4G Services Quick Out of the Blocks in London – New Data from RootMetrics
In the race between Vodafone and O2 to establish new 4G services, both networks are delivering strong – and similar – initial results. Mobile performance research company RootMetrics (www.rootmetrics.co.uk) conducted over 11,000 tests across central London over the five days immediately after O2 and Vodafone launched 4G, finding O2’s average download speed on a blend of 3G and 4G was 16.3 Mbps, whilst Vodafone’s average download speed was 16.2 Mbps. These blended speeds represent what most people will typically experience, since 4G is not available at all times. Having launched its service late last year, EE remains out in front and has even improved its speeds from earlier in…
Mobile Photography Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – September 22, 2013
We have just finished curating this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, our 33rd of the year and once again, it is outstanding and full of incredible mobile photography and art. It is a joy to curate and a pleasure to view. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Chad Rankin, Johnny Ecko, Maarten Oortwijn, Fernando Prats, dr pajchiwo, Susanne, la_ma_rie, Nettie Edwards/Lumilyon, Lisa Waddell, CLAY 3, Tomaso…
Tickle Your Fancy – #7
Welcome back to our seventh post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. We launched this seven weeks ago and it’s already becoming very popular. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the…
ProCamera – Temporarily Free
We really pleased to inform you that ProCamera is temporarily free today, usually this app retails for $4.99/£2.99. We’re particularly pleased to let you know it’s currently free because you need to use this app, via its Exhibition feature to enter our Photo Contest. It’s free to enter and we have some amazing prizes. Find out more here about the contest and download the app for free here.
Mobile Photography – Tip Of The Day – Number 34
Welcome to another brand new section from your favourite mobile photography website and one of the most popular in the world. Today, we’re publishing our 34th Mobile Photography/Art Tip Of The Day to our brand new section of the site. Every day we will publish a short quick tip to help you with your mobile photography, this may be related to editing your image, capturing your image, printing your image, all manner of things, across the complete photographic and art mobile genre – we’ll be featuring great mobile street photography tips, great blending tips, great cloning tips, we will cover it all from some of the greatest mobile photographers and…
Developers Of Diptic Release New Photography App Built For iOS 7
The developers of Diptic, Peak Systems, have released a new photography app specifically for iOS 7, it’s called Diptic PDQ for we understand – ‘pretty darn quick’ or as we say over the pond, ‘pretty damn quick’. The reason for this new release is perhaps best said by the developers themselves, “We’re always studying how our users interact with Diptic. This allows us to make note of their preferences and get ideas about improvement. When we noticed that a chunk of our users create their Diptic collages very quickly, using only a few of the hundreds of frames and features, we decided to make a collage app especially for them. It…
TapFX – Temporarily Free
TapFX is packed with some quite staggering photo effects that you may find beneificial to your images. TapFX usually retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today it’s free. Click here to download.
Hipstamatic – Temporary Price Drop
If you’re one of the minority who haven’t yet picked up Hipstamatic, then today is a great time to do so. It’s just been updated with a slick new look for iOS 7 and it’s available for $0.99/£0.69 instead of the more usual $1.99/£1.49. Click here to download.
Our Daily App Giveaway – Brand New ProCamera 7 App!
ProCamera 7 is a brand new app from the developers of ProCamera! We have 100 codes to giveaway for this brand new app today. We’re working closely with the developers of ProCamera at the moment with our fantastic Photo Contest. You need the Classic version of ProCamera to enter the competition via the Exhibition feature and we’ll be giving more of those codes away shortly too. If you already have it, then make sure you enter the competition because we have some totally fabulous prizes to giveaway, including Manfrotto kit, SnowLizard portable battery packs, and Olloclip gear. It’s free to enter, you’ve nothing to lose. To find out more about…
iOS 7 Now Available For All!
Earlier today Apple released iTunes 11.1, you’ll need to grab this, then update away. But don’t forget the golden rule, back up your device first, see our earlier post here. You can pick up the new firmware directly through iTunes as well as Wi-FI connections too. It will take up 1.25 GB of space on your device, just so you know…
