The camera app that comes with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich includes the ability to take panoramic photos. It also has a simple, attractive user interface. . Now you can have those same features on a phone or tablet running Android 2.2 or later thanks to an app called Camera ICS+. There’s a free, ad-supported version available from the Android Market or you can… Read more »

Apple has been building the ability to take panoramic photos into the default iOS camera app — but the company hasn’t officially released the feature yet. But Conrad Kramer discovered that the feature is already baked into iOS 5.0… it’s just not enabled by default. In order to enable support for panoramic photos you’ll need to jailbreak your device and download a utility called Firebreak… Read more »

Apple introduced iOS 5.0 today. An early version is already available for developers, and the company will push out a software update for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users later this fall. The latest operating system will support all apple mobile devices from the iPhone 3GS on up. That includes the iPhone 4, the third and fourth generation iPod touch, and all iPad models. We’ll… Read more »

A new camera app for jailbroken iOS devices should be available soon, letting you set a timer for your camera or take a number of photos in rapid succession. It’s called PictureMe and it should be available in the Cydia store soon for $1.99. The Time Delay feature lets you set a custom time between 0 and 25 seconds. This lets you set up the… Read more »

OfficeDrop has launched an Android app which lets you scan receipts, documents, or other text-based items with your phone and store them online. You can tag items or sort them into folders to make it easy to locate scanned documents later using your phone or using OfficeDrop’s web site. But the really cool thing is that OfficeDrop can also convert scanned documents into searchable PDF… Read more »

Internet voice and video app fring has received an update which lets you use either camera when making video calls using the latest iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad models. That way you can start a call using the front-facing camera for face-to-face communication, but you can switch to the higher quality rear camera if you want to show the person you’re talking to what you’re… Read more »

Windows Phone 7 may be the sexiest new mobile operating system Microsoft has released since, well, Pocket PC 2000. But while it has a slick new interface, an excellent new browser, and other compelling features, it lacks some of the features Windows Mobile users have grown used to over the past decade. That includes copy and paste support, multitasking, and easily removable storage. Developers are… Read more »

There are plenty of apps that take advantage of your phone’s hardware to do obvious things. You can turn your phone into a GPS unit or even a compass by using the accelerometer and GPS receiver. You can use the camera for augmented reality apps. But every now and again a developer comes up with a way to use the hardware that just barely seems… Read more »

Remember the good old days when sending an honest to goodness image over a dial-up internet connection would have taken hours, so people devised ways to arrange text to look like cartoons, landscapes, or you know… people with their clothes off? Now you can relive the fun with AsciiCamera for Android. This free app uses your phone’s camera to snap a photograph. But instead of… Read more »

OK, technically, Apple didn’t remove Camera+ from the App Store just because it made taking pictures too easy… but rather because the way that Camera+ did it was a violation of Apple’s terms of service. Here’s the deal. Camera+ added a hidden feature caller VolumeSnap to the latest version of its app. This let users plug in a secret code that would let you snap… Read more »