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Nokia welcomes Android developers – TheAppWhisperer
Today at Mobile World Congress, Nokia unveiled five new affordable handsets including a new family of smartphones debuting on the Nokia X software platform. Based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and backed by Nokia’s deep ties with operators, the Nokia X platform gives Android(TM) developers the chance to tap into, and profit from, a rapidly expanding part of the market. The launch builds on Nokia’s leadership in delivering innovation to more price points with its family of Lumia smartphones, and the latest momentum for Windows Phone. “Today Windows Phone is the fastest growing mobile ecosystem in the world, and we continue to see incredible momentum with our Lumia…
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Nokia connects the next billion with affordable smartphones
Today at Mobile World Congress, Nokia underscored its commitment to connecting the next billion to the Internet by releasing five new affordable handsets, including Nokia X, a family of smartphones that run Android™ apps, Microsoft services and signature Nokia experiences. · The Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL are priced to capture the fast-growing affordable smartphone market and provide an on-ramp to Lumia and Microsoft services like Skype, OneDrive and outlook.com. · The Nokia Asha 230 is Nokia’s most affordable full-touch Asha device to date, priced at EUR 45. · The Nokia 220 is an Internet-ready mobile phone with social apps, priced at only EUR 29. Quote Stephen Elop,…
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iOS App Review – Pixol – An Instagram Gaming App
Now we do not usually review any gaming apps here at theappwhisperer.com, we specialise in photography apps, whether they’re creative or tool apps but Pixol is a gaming app with an Instagram twist, so we thought we would ask one of our Editors, David Hayes to put it through its paces. Over to you David…(foreword by Joanne Carter). "I’m stepping outside of my comfort level and taking a look at the game app, Pixol in this article. I have to confess that I am not a Gamer! Many a game app has come and gone from my iPhone and iPad…even that one where it was fun to smash piggies…for a…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #25
Welcome back to our twenty fifth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘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 site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Incredible X-Ray…
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Technical Tutorial – DistressedFX – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to published this wonderful tutorial by Jerry Jobe on the very popular effects app for iOS photography, DistressedFX. This app brings quite a sophisticated look to your art and we’re quite sure you will find this tutorial invaluable. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “There are times when the perfect finishing touch for an image is a bit of grunge. I’ve already covered two grunge apps that make the image look as though the image was taken through a haze of dust, scratches and light leaks – ScratchCam and Mextures. But there’s a different category of grunge that has a more artistic quality. In this…
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A Day In The Life of Amadou Diallo – A Multi Talented Musican and Mobile Photographer!
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our one hundredth and one installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Amadou Diallo a lifelong East Coaster (except for a brief stint in the Emerald City) who moved to New York City at the age of 20 and immediately learned that nobody cares where you’re from,…
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Technical Tutorial – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Part 1 of 3 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish the first of three tutorials on the newly updated iOS Photography app, Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor app by our fabulous Technical Tutorial writer, Jerry Jobe. We hope to publish the additional two tutorials later on this week, check back for those. Over to you Jerry. (Foreword by Joanne Carter) “As I pointed out in my discussions of iColorama, Snapseed, Big Lens, LensLight and many other apps, tutorials can have a short shelf life. Within months of covering each of these apps, major changes have made my earlier glances at their workflow obsolete. Now another big change comes along, this time to Paint FX,…
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Technical Tutorial – iColorama 7a – ‘Exploring Release 3.7’ By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest Technical Tutorial on iColorama. Jerry is a fabulous tutorial editor and we’re so proud to share his latest, part 1 of 2, iColorama tutorial. In this tutorial Jerry takes a look at the latest update and demonstrates how to utilise these new features into your workflow, don’t miss this. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). "It isn’t easy keeping up with iColorama. As I write, release 3.7 was released two weeks ago. The developer. Teresa Garit, assures us that the next release should be ready to go to the App Store this week. And these aren’t cosmetic releases, tweaking…
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ProCam 2 – iOS Photography App – Updated and Temporarily Free
ProCam 2 is a new addition to the developer Samer Azzam’s popular photography arsenal, which also includes PhotoFusion and ProCam XL 2. We have published several tutorials relating to their photo apps in the past, if you’ve missed those go here. The confusing issue with this developer and their apps is that they keep changing their app names, we’re not entirely why this is so, whether it’s to get users to stump up more cash or whether there are patent issues outstanding. ProCam 2 though is proving quite popular with users despite a mixed bag of reviews and is currently free in the App Store. It’s also just been updated…
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Deco Sketch – Technical IOS Photography App Tutorial – Part 2 – By Jerry Jobe
It’s with great pleasure that we publish Part 2 of a Deco Sketch tutorial by our wonderful Technical Tutorial Editor, Jerry Jobe. This app is from the same developer as the equally popular Tangent app. If you missed Part 1 please go here. Deco Sketch retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here We’re quite sure you will enjoy this a lot. Over to you Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “In Part 1 of the Deco Sketch tutorial, we were working with a blank canvas, creating abstract techno images. In Part 2 we’ll see how you can add the lines and shapes from Deco Sketch to a photo, giving…
