Apollo is the new default music player for CyanogenMod 9. If you download and install the latest nightly release of the custom firmware for Android phones and tablets it should include Apollo. But you can also download and install the app manually on virtually any device running Android 4.0 or later. The music player features a very clean user interface that actually seems to match… Read more »

Just a few days after launching an official voice and video chat for Windows Phone, Skype has released new apps for Android and iOS. Skype 2.8 for Android is now available from the Google Play Store, while you can grab Skype 4.0 for iPhone or iPad from the App Store. The new Android app features support for video rotation on additional phones and tablets, instant… Read more »

Over the past few years Read it Later has offered tools let users bookmark web pages temporarily and read them later on a PC or mobile device. Now the company’s launching a new version and changing the name to “Pocket.” The idea is that when you find an article, website, or video you don’t have time to read right now, you can put it in… Read more »

The Dolphin web browser for Android offers a number of features you don’t get with the standard Android web browser, including support for browser tabs in Android 2.3 and earlier, support for add-ons, gesture-based commands, and voice commands. Now the developers have released a public beta of Dolphin Browser 8 with a new toolbar and improved add-on navigation. The first thing Dolphin users will notice… Read more »

Bluefire Reader is the latest eBook app for iOS to receive an update for the new iPad’s retina display. That means text should look sharper when using an iPad with a 2048 x 1536 pixel display, but support for higher resolution screens is just one of the changes in Bluefire 1.7. The new app also supports external hyperlinks in eBooks in ePUB and PDF formats…. Read more »

Android 4.0 is nice and all, but as of April, 2012 fewer than 3 percent of Android phone and tablet users have the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system. So Google is updating some of its core Android apps to bring a taste of Android 4.0 to earlier versions of Android. Gmail 2.3.6 hit the Google Play Store today, and it adds the following… Read more »

SwiftKey is an alternative to the on-screen keyboard for Android devices, with a heavy emphasis on auto-correction. Today the developers have released the first beta of SwiftKey VIP, and it offers even better text prediction and auto-correction. The new version of SwiftKey has a new theme that batter matches the black and blue color scheme of Android 4.0. SwiftKey 3 also has a new “smart… Read more »

Instagram is a mobile app that lets you shoot photos, add filters, borders and other effects, and share them with your friends. The app is wildly popular on the iPhone, and now Instagram is also available for Android. You can download Instagram for Android for free from the Google Play Store. Instagram supports devices running Android 2.2 and up as long as they support OpenGL… Read more »

Opera has released an updated version of the Opera Mini web browser for Android. Opera Mini 7 offers a better Speed Dial bookmarking feature, support for NFC (Near Field Communication), and OpenGLES hardware graphics acceleration. The Opera Mini web browser is available as a free download from the Google Play Store. Opera actually offers two different web browsers for mobile devices: Opera Mobile and Opera… Read more »

Zoho provides a range of online software including web-based office software, web conferencing apps, and online accounting software. The company’s Zoho Docs service is at least as good as Google Docs for creating and editing text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents and collaborating with other users. But up until recently the only way to access Zoho Docs on a mobile device was by using a mobile… Read more »