Productivity apps form the core of every smartphone experience. They are the reason that most of us invest in one, along with mapping and music. The useful apps available  are numbered in the hundreds, but these are the ones we think every mobile should...

Amazon's Kindle for iPad app has been updated, bringing with it a new interface and new features.

Most important for new iPad owners, the new Amazon Kindle app adds support for the new Retina Display on the new iPad so users can enjoy their...

So you've just ordered the new iPad, and now you need to fill it with lovely iPad apps to take advantage of that retina display it has. But with thousands of apps available just for the iPad what are the best ones to get and are there any that take...

Evernote is not the only note taking service. If you’ve never got on with the green-look super-program that is, then today’s App of the Day on Pocket-lint is definitely worth a try. For a start, you can change the background to one of a...

So you've got a Windows Phone 7 phone, and now you need to fill it with lovely Windows Phone 7 apps. But with over 45,000 apps available for the Microsoft platform what are the best ones to get and are there any that take advantage of the Metro interface. 

We've...

Sometimes people just don't seem to be able to spot what you are talking about. You send someone a funny photo, they see the you, but they don’t notice the person in the background walking into a tree.

Or sometimes you want to highlight...

Evernote, the highly useful application which allows you to keep track of anything you want to remember online or in the real-world, has just had its Android tablet version unveiled.

The optimised app takes its inspiration from the iPad version...

We have featured the wonders of Evernote before on Pocket-lint, however we thought that its recent appearance on the Windows Phone 7 platform deserved giving it a second look. Its launch has seen much anticipation and apart from a couple of early bugs,...

We at Pocket-lint are big fans of the Livescribe smartpens. The Pulse device is ranked as a PL "Hot Product" and we've also been lucky enough to be able to have been able to test out the new Livescribe Connect platform that launches today (23 May).

Livescribe...

So you've got an iPad 2, and now you need to fill it with lovely iPad apps. But with 65,000 apps available just for the iPad what are the best ones to get and are there any that take advantage of the new features of the iPad 2. 

We've scoured...

Xobni, the company that helps you manage the contacts in Outlook by telling you who is important and who’s not, has launched a new feature that brings in third-party details beyond social networks to services like Evernote and Dropbox.

The...

Evernote has just announced a shiny new version of its web app, bringing the platform more in line with what you're used to with your Evernote desktop client or mobile apps.

You'll now see the familiar three-pane setup when you open up the...

Brilliant ideas only happen once in your life. You may have many of them but the likelihood is that each one will only occur to you a single time. If you don’t record it when the brainwave hits, you could miss it.

So, for all those...

So you want an iPad, you're not into games and all that jazz, but you need convincing that it's going to help you get things done. You've got to justify it somehow, and if you really can use it for "work" then you might just be able to expense it.

We've...

Evernote, the cloud-based note taking and brain expansion tool, has upgraded the beta of its Android application into a full release, following "months and months of development", according to the company.

The app has pretty much the same functionality...