Learning on iPhone is fun as well as informative. Here we present the best brain-feeding apps

ABC Spy

ABC Spy is certainly a little different from many education apps aimed at early years, in that it actually encourages activity as a source of learning. Through the app, children are challenged to use the iPhone’s camera to take a picture of something for each letter of the alphabet. As well as being a fun activity that keeps kids on their toes, it serves as a great way to consolidate knowledge of the alphabet. On top of the alphabet-based challenge, kids are encouraged to show off their creative side by choosing a frame for each photo and sizing the picture to fit, with trophies being awarded for every photo challenge completed. All in all, this is a great app, with plenty of bright colors and easy-to-use controls to keep children entertained for hours. There’s plenty to do and for the price, it’s incredibly great value – a worthy download for teaching the basics of letters and the alphabet.

Price: £0.69/$0.99 Developer: Stealth Education

Microsoft Office 2010 Pro

Microsoft Office 2010 Pro provides a great resource of video tutorials to help you master Microsoft Office without the need for hefty manuals or long-winded step-by-step instructions. Upon launching the app, you’re presented with a somewhat limited set of tutorial categories. Tapping on any of the different categories will bring up a playlist of videos that form an entire tutorial, conveniently these are split up into sections for more focused learning, but it would be nice if they were a little more comprehensive.

 

There’s a few options within the app to purchase additional tutorial files, but for the cost of the app, it would have been better to see a little more included in the first place. That said, the video tutorials are clear, concise and easy to follow, making this a great app for beginners and novices alike. Well worth downloading if you’re looking to learn and understand Office in a flash.

 

Special Words

Special Words helps children with learning difficulties get to grips with words, pictures and sounds, and the thought that’s gone into the app really shows. Everything from the plain background (children with Down’s syndrome and autism can be distracted by colorful or moving backgrounds) to the lockable options bar has been purposefully designed to aid in the learning process, and the result is something that’s effective, easy to use and fully featured. There are four different games to choose from, involving matching pictures to pictures, words to words, pictures to words and vice versa. All of these can be customized by adding, deleting or editing entries to the universal words list, meaning that the opportunities to expand this great learning tool are endless.

The app may seem simple to most, but its simplicity allows it to be universally accessible to children with all manner of learning difficulties and levels of development, and that’s something that only a few educational apps can boast.

 

Interactive Telling Time – Learning to tell time is fun

A fair few methods can be employed when it comes to teaching kids to tell the time, and Interactive Telling Time has certainly included a number of them in this great app. Making full use of the iPhone’s touch screen interface, ‘Set The Time’ allows you to move the clock’s hands to the time that’s displayed, whereas ‘Tell The Time’ requires you to read the time and set on the standard iOS barrel-option wheel. These two methods combined would be enough to teach most children the basics of telling the time, but there are also three different games to choose from that make the process a lot more fun. The app itself is bright and colorful yet clear and easy to use, meaning little adult supervision is required to get it set up. There are plenty of options to increase or decrease the difficulty of the tasks too. Few apps offer so many features in this price bracket.

 

Chirp! Bird Songs Europe +

Chirp! Bird Songs Europe + provides an interactive, audible encyclopedia of birds and their birdsongs from all around Europe. Fire up the app and tap on a country to get started. From here you can preview sounds by bird name in alphabetical order or even by commonness. There’s an attractive slide show of bird images and sounds to entertain, and a birdsong quiz to test your knowledge. On top of this, a single tap takes you to the Wikipedia page for each bird

The SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule launched April 18 and on April 20 arrived at the space station with about 5,000 pounds of supplies. Now it’s time to back home and it is returning home with 3,564 pounds of science samples, crew supplies and vehicle hardware.

NASA astronaut and station commander Steve Swanson organized a 58-foot robotic arm that drew the Dragon from its Harmony node port and then released the capsule into space 266 miles over the South Ocean of Australia.

Swanson radioed to the Earth “Thanks to everybody who worked this Dragon mission; it went very well It’s also very nice to have a vehicle that can take your science equipment, and maybe someday even humans, back to Earth.”

NASA has also signed a $1.9 billion deal with Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. to make eight unmanned cargo flights with its Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule. Antares is scheduled to make its first test flight in mid-April, and the rocket should blast Cygnus toward the station on a demonstration mission later this year if all goes well, Orbital officials have said.

It is expected that a mobile congress which will held in Barcelona will launch top five android tablets of this year. Though it is unofficial news but still there are some rumors that not all the companies are going to launch since most of them are planning to take Apple’s tablet as a model and after sometime will unveil their own. The upcoming top 5 android tablets are as follows:

Nexus 8:

It is considered to be the follow up of nexus 7 and is going to launch in next few months. Google has launch Nexus 8 in 2012. Hence, probably it will be available to public in sometime in June 2014 They haven’t reveal any more information yet but some news intelligence are saying that it will be made by HTC.

 

Sony Xperia Z3:

Sony has released its Sony xperia z2 in February and now an announcement of launch of Sony xperia Z3 in august is expected. It seems like Sony never want their customers to wait for their new product, they make it available to them before they even desire.

 

iPad Air 2:

iPad air 2 is probably the upgraded version of the existing model. There are numerous rumors that Apple is not planning to change the exterior of I pad air 2. for instance, its shape, size, resolution is going to be same. But yes! The entire functions or applications will have a slight change or we can say that they will improve its chip.

 

Lenovo ThinkPad 10:

Lenovo is preparing to release another product in the series of their tablets. The company has officially announced the appearance of their future tablet. There would not be any variation in the color so the expected color is black with a line of red in it. They are giving a front camera of 3MP and rear camera of 8MP.

 

Samsung Galaxy W:

Samsung is famous for its smart phones and tablets. They have launched the widest range of smart phones and phablets. Samsung Galaxy is a change in their usual line of products since it is going to be a tablet phone. It will have multi tasking characteristics with three unique colors black, white and red.

Remember the days when Nokia 3315 battery used to last for over a week and the must have phone feature was the most recent version of Snake or the monophonic ringtone, the best of that time? Those days were awesome!

In this era, it is all about the smartphones with huge screens that leave us searching for the charger before even the day ends. So no doubt that battery backup is the most crucial and important factor for people when people are looking to purchase a new phone.

According to the recent survey by IDC, it is proven that 56% Android users, 49% of iPhone users and 53% of the Windows Phone users consider battery as the most significant priority.

However, the manufacturers of smart-phones are more concerned about making it easy to use and to improve the quality of camera instead of working on the battery life too.

The case study also mentioned that the key reasons to buy the product of Apple is due to it’s long battery life.

Below is the case study of the recent releases. Share your opinion in comments too.