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A search engine gives you a definition. A dictionary tells you how the word behaves.

Aeroplane mode and a turn-based game will outlast any setting inside the game itself.

The app that is best for a reading plan is rarely the one that is quickest to find a verse in a service.

The genre is excellent and the monetisation is where it gets decided. Check for timers before you invest a week.

A weather app with no data shows you yesterday's forecast and does not mention it.

The apps that matter are the ones you checked last night, not the ones you open on the bank.

Two apps on the same phone in the same room will give different times, and neither is broken.

The apps that help in a power cut are the ones already downloaded. Afterwards there is no way to get them.

No signal is easy to design for. One bar is the case that breaks most apps.

Before a flight or a trip with no roaming, these are the apps to set up while you still have WiFi.

Games that download in under a minute and leave room for your photos.

Two apps play podcasts. Six do it properly. Here is the difference.

A reader is judged by the hundredth book, not the first.

There are three honest ways to have music with no signal. Only one of them is free forever.

The gallery app plays what the hardware decoder supports. Everything else needs a real player.

One hour of high-definition video is roughly three gigabytes. That is the whole problem.

If your voice arrives late in the headphones, no app setting will save the performance.

Your phone may have a real FM radio in it that uses no data at all.

Your local library probably lends audiobooks to your phone for nothing.

Half the games marketed as offline still phone home before the first level.

One phone, two thumbs at each end. It works better than it sounds.

The test is whether closing the app mid-round costs you anything.

If the game punishes you for not opening it, it is managing you rather than the other way round.

A puzzle you can pay to skip was never a puzzle.