Here is one more winner of our Free App Promotion – forfone! Below you’ll find a detailed review of the app and will be able to find out what it all is about!

forfone is a free Voice over IP (VoIP) app for iOS, allowing you to place free calls to anyone who also has forfone installed on his/her iDevice, making you reachable everywhere! Regardless love, Wi-Fi or 3G connection is what you need to place free calls and send free text and picture messages to any forfone user!

Installation is easy and requires no registration, no extra username, no need to change your mobile plan, no ads, no commitment and no hidden costs. One more important thing is that there is no need for creating buddy lists, as your existing contacts will be integrated in the app and those who also use forfone will be marked as forfree, so you know at all times whom to talk and text to for free!

By using the latest technology in order to provide best possible voice quality, forfone provides unlimited calls to other forfone users worldwide. What you need to be aware is that the voice quality depends on your internet connection as well. The best quality is reached with 3G or a full Wi-Fi signal. Below you’ll find the app features described:

fortalk – Free, unlimited calls to other forfone users worldwide. Once you and your friends have installed forfone you can use it to place both national and international calls totally free. The bandwidth rate during a forfone call is approximately 200 KB per minute / 12 MB per hour.

forchat – Free, unlimited text messages including picture and location sharing between forfone users directly from your device, allowing you to express your mood with one of the emoticons and show your friends exactly where you are with the geo-location feature.

forfriends – If your friends don’t have forfone installed yet, you can still connect with them! Start telling them about the free app and if they have an iOS device send them an invitation so you can start calling and texting them for free. Note that invite text messages are no forfone messages. Carrier SMS charges may apply.

forout – With which you can call any landline number or someone outside the forfone network. Check out our extremely low national and international rates with forout. With outfree forfone even gives away free minutes!

Updated on January 5th, 2012, the latest 2.1.0 Versionof forfone brings additional features, including: 

• New: Attach locations to Messages/SMS

• Improved voice quality

• Miscellaneous changes / bugfixes

The app is available in Apple App Store in Social Networking category for FREE! Featuring English, French, German, Italian and Spanish languages, forfone is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iOS 4.0 or later to be fully functional.

To become the next winner and see the review of your app on our blog, get started now, check out how-to promote your apps for free!

Microsoft Marketing Manager for Xbox UK - Robin Burrowes - has updated his LinkedIn profile, letting the world know, he has been hired by Apple to push iPhone and iPad gaming even further, to help grow Europe's Application Store marketing segment.

Burrowes has been working for Microsoft almost seven years. He was responsible for all products, business and marketing management of Xbox LIVE in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As for Apple, he is the latest in a series of high-profile British gaming recruits.

Microsoft came out of nowhere with the XBOX to take an important share of the console gaming market, the most popular windows phone games - it’s all XBOX. 

Many of the most popular applications in Apple’s Application Store are games and the company has seen enormous success in the mobile gaming sector. That is why with the action – hiring Burrowes - it will drive its ongoing encroachment on the handheld gaming sector. Burrowes will surely help its new employer to figure out how to build an amazing presence in the booming gaming market.

iPhone4S users are really lucky because they have got an amazing feature called SIRI. It can actually be described as most lovely feature of the phone; so it is logic if users of earlier iPhone models are jealous. But iPhones never disappoint us.

“Voice Control” functionality is a limited tool for iPhone4. It is very useful one if used correctly. Here are the tips which will help you out.

• Go to your iPhone’s ’Setting’ menu, select ’General,’ scroll down to see ’International,’ hit ’Voice Control’ and choose which language you would like to use from the list. But if you speak the language of the country you bought your iPhone in, then you do not need default settings.

• Press and hold the Home button in order to activate your phone’s Voice Control Function. After prompted by the tone, speak your command straight away, but delays can cause unpredictable results.

P.S. if you use a Bluetooth headset, you need to press and hold the call button to activate.

• For best results, you should hold the phone to your face, as you would on a call. If you do hold the handset in front of you, it should not be more than 12 inches away.

• The key command words for calling are “call” and "dial." The word “dial” you use when you are reading out a number that is not in your contacts. “Call” works for named contacts. You need to add the surname if you have several contacts with the same name. Do not use possessive names. Say “call … on his/her mobile” instead of “call …’s mobile.”

• If your phone will not recognize a certain name, you need to give that contact a nickname by going into the contact, hitting "Edit" > "add field" > "Nickname."

• Voice Control can handle your music playback as well. The basic command terms are: "play songs by [Artist Name]," "play [Album Name]," "play [Playlist Name]," "pause," "previous song," "next song," "shuffle" and "play more songs like this."

• But the most amazing fact is that your phone can identify music! You will get the answer if you ask "what is playing?" or "who is this song by?"

• If the phone has trouble recognizing an artist or album name, you should put the tracks into a playlist and give it an easy to identify name.

• And the last thing Voice Control will do for you is to tell the time. Just ask it "what is the time?" or "what time is it?"

See also:

10 secrets about SIRI;

5 hidden tricks of iPhone you should know!

Some surprise for you under iOS5.

Rumors about the next generation of iPad are circulating constantly. Some sources say that it is scheduled the tablet to be published on March 29. One thing that claims its nearness is – iPad 3 books have been added to Amazon’s European site. 

BGR claims that a source had an iPad 3 prototype and sent some images that reveal more information about the device. The photos points to model numbers J1 and J2, which refers to iPad3,1 and iPad3,2. This means that iPad is supposedly to come in two versions – one for Wi-Fi and another with Wi-Fi and GSM/CDMA/LTE.

The images also reveal that Apple could be using a new processor called A6, model number S5L8945X. Probably this will be a powerful and extremely fast quad-core model. For comparison, the Apple A4 model was S5L8930X and the A5 is S5L8940X.

It was not indicated previously that the latest tablet from Apple would be called iPad, although, the images show that the device is being called iPad 3. But is should not be surprise if the tablet will be called iBoot.

As the matter of the fact iPads are so multiform, we do not want to part with them but sometimes we have to - when battery needs recharge; that is why one more important thing about the dream tablet is its improved battery (14,000 mAh) performance. It is expected the iPad3 will be featuring a battery that includes more than twice the capacity of the current iPad2 battery (6,500 mAh).

But the most important thing about the iPad 3 is our expectation about its speed – it is supposed to be faster than any other 'iDevice,' compatible with LTE, running on a quad-core chip and featuring a high-definition screen.

ComiXcape is based on a story of a little boy who is keen on comics and is incomparably good at sling shooting. His love of comics is so strong that when not in trouble, all he does is to drink in each drawing story! Once being punished for his pranks, the boy gets obsessed with comics and turns into its character.

With ComiXcape you’re able to follow him and experience unbelievable adventures in the fictional world of comics. This marvelous tour takes you through four countries and three continents, and with different challenges to put up with, you get a final prize – a ticket for the next destination full of new quests! While travelling from one country to another and proving your shooting skills, you’ll have to get the little boy out of the troubles whenever he gets in one and help him get back to the real world. Whether you’re able to do it or not will be unveiled once you’ve played all the levels!

ComiXcape enables you to make your own target by uploading a picture of a friend, or more logically someone you don’t like, and use it as a target while demonstrating your shooting skills. You can then share the photo on Facebook and let your friends know how you shot them!

The “info” (i) option is available from the menu between the levels, providing a few short, curious and interesting facts about each country visited. This means that besides having fun, you enlarge your knowledge as well.

ComiXcape is available in the games category in Apple App Store  for only $0.99. The game is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iOS 4.0 or later to be fully functional. What are you waiting for? Go get ComiXcape, prove your sling shooting skills and have fun in escaping from the world of comics!

Even the Apple’s favorite application  is connected to photography . Probably that is enough to be an iPhone camera-lover and even be obsessed with capturing images on your mobile. However iPhone camera is improving from generation to generation.  Thanks to its small, portable, and discreet form, iPhone is now the most popular camera in the world, you are lucky if you got one. That is why you should not miss the chance to document your daily life and keep connected to the practice of photography.

Here are some tips which will help you to improve your shooting style, effectiveness and efficiency.

First of all, you need maximum image quality, so go to Settings and adjust it.

Then discover your go-to shooting application and keep it on your home screen. Great moments are unrepeatable, that is why you need quick access on it.

You need to get comfortable shooting with one hand because sometimes you have to “work” extremely.

Did you know if you tap on different areas of the screen, you will be able to set up lighting and exposure effects?

You can work wonders with some applications! So try your images to be well composed, think creatively while shooting.

But not every application meets all your creative needs. Though, you can create your own style with testing multiple applications.

Capturing patterns and textures is not insane at all because you can use them later as layers in various applications.

You should back up your photos often and keep applications up to date.

As the matter of the fact taking photos and editing them in applications is taxing on the battery, always keep a charger or battery pack handy.

As we all know, after an incident at the Apple store in Beijing, selling of iPhone4S has stopped in China. But the company has turned to a new, safer tactic to sell its most wanted device. The new system do not allows reserving an iPhone without inputting full credentials, including government photo ID matching the name and ID number. This is meant for keeping out scalpers who use bots to snag up phones in the reservation system.

If you want to buy an Apple Phone in Hong Kong, you need to enter your information on newly set up page on the Hong Kong Apple online store site and enter a lottery. You have only three hours to put in for a phone, between 9am - 12pm. If you are a lucky one, Apple will email you by 9pm that evening, letting you know instructions on pick up your handset the following day. When a “winner” goes to the store, one needs to show the marching ID. 

Sure, it is a very strict system not to be allowed to walk in and buy the phone, but violence from people who attacked the store in the releasing day of iPhone4S, was stricter. 

The new reservation system is only for shoppers in Hong Kong, it is unknown yet whether Apple rolls this out across the country.