Top 25 Most Popular and Free iPhone Apps for iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and other iPhones

Apple’s App Store recently hit its 50 billionth download. Since its launch in July 2008, the store has been the go-to place for mobile apps. To this day, mobile developers often choose to release their apps here first. Popular from the start, just seven months after the App Store’s launch, the store surpassed one million third party apps, many of those free.

Alongside its most recent and successful numbers, Apple released a list of its most 25 most-downloaded free iPhone apps of all time. A greatest hits list if you will from the past five years, the list contains a few apps you might expect — such as Facebook and Pandora — as well as a few you might not realize were so widely popular.

Check out Apple’s list in the gallery below, and let us know your favorite free iPhone apps in the comments.

6 Best Affordable 1080P and Quad-core Smartphones

The Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One might be the best selling devices right now, but they are not the only devices featuring a 1080p display and a quad-core processor. Actually, if you are not a gamer to care about the absolute best performance on a phone, there are plenty of alternatives.

The Galaxy S4 and the One both cost north of $600 off contract, but what if we told you that you can get a phone with a 1080p display and a quad-core processor for around $200? That’s a third of the price, and with processor technologies taking a huge leap, performance on these devices is lag-free.

Mobile OS Comparison - iOS 7 vs. Android 4.2 vs. Windows Phone 8 vs. BlackBerry 10

On the WWDC 2013, Apple officially released iOS 7, and declared it to come with “Biggest Change Since the Original iPhone”. By checking what’s new in iOS 7, we could easily get the right point of iOS 7, like the multitasking preview, Control Center, AireDrop, etc. These changes are more cosmetic and iterative than they are groundbreaking. That's completely understandable; not every update can spark a revolution.

However, apart from a few notable innovations, iOS 7 doesn't seem like it's enough to overturn criticism that its growth has stalled, that it's less innovative than archrival Android, and that it borrows heavily from other competitors (in truth, they all steal ideas from each other). At least not at this point in the game.

10 photo sharing apps for Android and iPhone

Taking photos with a phone or tablet is fun and very neat. After all, even affordable handsets come with cameras that can snap a pretty photo. Even better, our mobile devices let us share our masterpieces with friends, family, and the world instead of just keeping them private. That's where photo sharing apps come into play – the likes of Instagram, Path, Tumblr, Imgur, to name a few.

However, these aren't the only apps that let you share photos straight from a mobile device. In fact, there's tons of them out there, available for both the iPhone, the iPad, and Android smartphones and tablets. Here we've picked some of the ones that are worth checking out. Let us know down in the comments which one you like the most!

The 5 Best Android Apps for Android smartphones

Behold, our updated list of the best Android apps around. It's our hand-picked list of the best Android applications around. These are some of the first Android apps you'll want to download.

Keeping track of Android apps can be a huge pain. With the meteoric rise of Android to the top of the heap 850,000 Android devices activated a day (and 450,000 apps in the Google Play Store), the landscape is rapidly changing at an almost breakneck pace. Fortunately for y'all, you've got a secret weapon on your hands: us. We're tirelessly dedicated to sorting through the muck, and we've picked some of the best Android apps around. Hop past the break to see some of Android's latest and hottest apps available today.

How to get to Google Now on the Samsung Galaxy S4

On many Android phones with on-screen keys, getting to Google Now -- the excellent predictive/voice-controlled search app in Android 4.1 and above -- is simply a matter of swiping up from the bottom of the screen. It's not quite as simple as that on the new Samsung Galaxy S4, but fear not, there are still a few quick and easy ways to get to the new Google Search app.

Samsung officially announced Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 tablet

Samsung’s second Tab announcement today brings news of the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, which as you may have guessed is a 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 3 line. Spec-wise, there’s not much to separate the Tab 3 10.1 from the 8-inch variant announced alongside it. You’ve got a 1.6GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB of RAM (less than the 8-incher, oddly), 16 or 32GB of storage backed up by microSD expandability.

It’s also running the latest Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean along with the most recent iteration of Samsung’s TouchWiz interface. And you’ve got Wifi, 3G and 4G LTE connectivity options available, as well as Bluetooth 4.0.