Gaming And Entertainment Apps For Your Tablet

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What is the best thing you like to do on your tablet? I know most will say they like playing games or entertainment hangouts on their tablets. Tablet PCs are fast becoming the go-to technology for gaming and entertainment. Tablets do support a wide range of graphical rich games and entertainment apps – whether offline or in-application. For power users, their tablet is their world as they do not only use it for gaming or entertainment, but also for listening to music or watching videos, even for watching TV online.

Touch screen on tablet made gaming and entertainment easy; it removed the need of buttons or a keypad. The first full-functional (with touch screen) tablet was launched by Apple Inc in 2010. But, it is Microsoft which coined the term Tabled PC when the company launched the first ever Tablet PC device in 2000. It was HP Compaq Tablet PC, introduced in the market with a licensed copy of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system; however, this pen-enabled tablet was a relatively unsuccessful product and remained limited to hospitals and outdoor businesses.

But, with the launch of Apple’s iPad, ...
... followed by the tablets of other companies such as Google, BlackBerry, etc. in later years, the market of tablet has become considerably large and as considerably large is the segment of users who like to use their tablets for gaming and entertainment purposes. In the past two-and-half-years, a big change has come across the world of mobile application developers. Now, they exploit the capabilities of touch screen and other features of tablet PC for the development of gaming and entertainment apps.

There are many inspiring stories of small companies whose gaming or entertainment apps conferred them with global reputation and recognition. Rovio, a Finland based company, created a global phenomenon when it launched Angry Birds. Apart from Angry Birds, there are many gaming and entertainment apps that you can download on your tablets PC. Cut The Rope, for an instance, is a popular game that has been downloaded by over 60 million users worldwide. The game has become a viral over the past year. While playing the game, the user has to feed candies to the character Om Nom. It reminds us the earliest arcade games of Nintendo but with HD graphics, it has appealed millions of today’s users. The game is available on both iTunes and Google Play.

Once you play Temple Run, you will instantly get addicted to the game. Most smartphone and tablet users have played or will soon play this game. The character of the game has stolen an idol from the temple and now you have to make him run for his life to escape the evil demon monkeys. They keep on following the character on the walls and along sheer cliffs of the Temple. The game is available on both iTunes and Google Play. Apart from being used as a gaming device, many users have turned their iPad into an entertainment station where they can listen to and create music. Songify is one such app that turns speech into music automatically! You just speak and let the app turn your speech into a song. It has so far been downloaded by 9 million people over the world. This entertainment app is also available on both iTunes and Google Play.

Tablets are getting better displays so that power users can enjoy photography too. If you have Fotopedia app on your tablet, you can have a rich quality coffee table book-like experience at no cost. You can now make a high quality electronic photo book through Fotopedia app. For now the app is available in iTunes, but soon the developers will also release an Android version of this app.

There are plenty of photos and video editing apps across the app stores but not all have features like Halftone. This app lets you create pop-fiction style comic book albums out of one's photos. It also has numerous panels, effects and layouts. It has Facebook and Twitter integrations so that you can share your work with others. At present, the app is available for Apple devices but according to a blog post in March, there are chances that developers will soon release an Android version.

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