After four years it is time to check Google Maps again. Last years were turbulent on navigation market. Faster devices, better communications and connectivity, cloud solutions...Google is one of the major players when services for a broad number of people comes into play. Their Google Maps (not only on phones) becomes an unofficial standard when…
INFO (september 2022): This review is somehow outdated. The application has some changes and is renamed to TomTom AmiGO. But it is quite similar and even more interesting. In the last years I'm starting using Google Maps over and over. Very good coverage, navigation, real-time traffic, transit, excellent search for POIs with additional information ...…
You can find battery tips on the web, but some of them are old and not up to date. I have collected conclusions from the latest research (for example Battery University, Google...) and for the latest versions of Android. Follow these suggestions for keeping the battery in good condition. Charging Charging is the most…
OnePlus 5 (photo: https://oneplus.net)After four years with Nexus 5, I have decided to change the phone. Reason - as you can expected -very poor battery life, lack of security patches and the phone becomes quite slow and unresponsive.Price budget for new phone was set to 350-450 EUR and I have read many reviews and tests. At…
A quick response is one of the most unknown but also very interesting feature on Android smartphones. With this feature, you can reject a call and send a SMS message to the caller without typing. Useful if you want to let someone know that you got their call but can't pick up right now. In…
Two years ago I wrote a short TomTom Europe review. It is time to check what has changed in this application and how it looks now. You can download an application from Google Play and it is freemium model. If you don't buy a premium version with in-app purchase, it offers 70 km free per…
Some early birds, enthusiasts and lucky people already use Android Marshmellow. As always when a new release of such a large project as OS is, we find at least some bugs or problems.Users of Facebook Messenger application discovered that there are no chat heads anymore on the screen when they get a message. What is wrong?…
CoPilot isn't a newcomer in road navigation group. They offer two applications - a free CoPilot with route planning and CoPilot Premium with turn-by-turn navigation. In first two weeks with free CoPilot, you can use turn-by-turn navigation within one country. Just to taste a navigation.+ Good menus and features (for example: Show POI on display…