6 Free Apps to Make Your Android Phone Like an iPhone 4S
October 12th, 2011 by Davey Alba, LAPTOP Staff Writer The iPhone 4S and its new iOS 5 operating system offer a host of new features, including Siri voice control, a Cards app for sending paper greetings in the mail, Reminders that help keep you up-to-date, and Find my Friends for tracking people down. Fortunately, Android users don’t have to feel left out, as there are a host of third-party apps that bring this functionality to Google’s mobile OS.
Cards Alternative: Postagram
The Cards app from Apple, which comes with iOS 5, will let you create digital cards directly on your iPhone or iPod touch—and after they’re complete, Apple will drop the physical missives in the mail for you. It’ll cost $2.99 for domestic delivery and $4.99 for international delivery.
But Postagram, a free app that’s available in the Android Market, has been providing this very service for quite some time now—and at a cheaper rate, too. For 99 cents per Postagram sent, you choose a photo to mail and the service prints the image out on thick, glossy photo paper at a 300 dpi resolution, which pops out of the card as a 3 x 3 inch print. You can even add a custom 140-character message along with the photo if you wish.
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October 14th, 2011 at 11:43 am
This article needs to be renamed ASAP. It should read “6 Ways that Apple is Trying to Keep Pace With Android”. Everyone of these options has been out for well longer than iOS 4 or 5. There is no self respecting Android user who wants their phone to look/act like an iPhone. If they did want a tightly locked os with great hardware and overrated software, they would buy an iPhone. Fortunately for iPhans, they have many options/apps to try and make their dead steer look like the broncing bull, Android.
May 21st, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Apps are what is needed to make your smartphone smart and unique.Im fond of app creating and find it really helpful to use site like Snappii where i can build apps in minutes.