Mentioned as the world’s first smartphone built to feature Facebook Home, the new HTC First enables users to keep updated on their friends’ latest updates right on the home screen. As stated by Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Home is a completely new experience by bringing News Feed to the surface without having to open an app or access a mobile website. It looks like the common RSS reader, right?
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With a 1.2GHz quad core processor, Samsung’s new GALAXY win features dual SIM support, a 4.7 inches display, and runs on Android Jelly Bean. Still looking to the powerhouse, this large yet compact smartphone is also configured with 1GB RAM, 8GB of internal storage and a 2,000mAh battery. With such high-end specs, users can play any apps or games with vivid color and resolution without a doubt.
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If you’ve just purchased your new android device and don’t know where to start, we know exactly how you feel. With the ever increasing number of apps available on the market, knowing which apps are the most useful or most fun is an absolute minefield.

With this in mind, we’ve put together this list of the most addictive apps for your new android device. These are the apps that we just can’t put down and simply couldn’t live without.

1. PicsArt.

A simple, yet powerful mobile photo editing app, PicsArt has already surpassed the 35 million download mark on Google Play, with a reported 2 million unique users each day. With photo editing tools that rival many paid apps, PicsArt offers filters, photo masks, corrections, frames, borders and the ability to add other graphics to the original picture.

2. Carbon for Twitter

A Twitter client for your Android Smartphone, Carbon is a sleek, sophisticated, yet easy to use tool for keeping in touch with your online world.

3. SquibbleBox

SquibbleBox really is unique amongst chat services for Android. Offering you the ability to send real time messages, as well as draw, share and collaborate on pictures, with friends, will keep you entertained for hours. It’s a thoroughly addictive means of staying connected.

4. Pics 1 Word

This app for Android may sound simple and it does exactly what the title suggests. We challenge you, however, to put this app down. Who knew that finding the common word among a group of four pictures could be so much fun? It will keep you attached to your new Smartphone for hours, we guarantee it.
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The Xperia T, also known as the James Bond phone, is the latest offering from Japanese manufacturer Sony. This is the most powerful handset of the Xperia range, until the release of Xperia Z is announced. We had a look at the bold new handset to see what all the fuss was about.

Design

Considering this handset is associated with James Bond, you would expect a lean and classy looking handset. On first inspection, this isn’t the mobile equivalent of a man in Tom Ford suit. The Xperia T is rather bulky and comes with a plastic or rubber back panel depending on your colour choice. Neither finishes are particularly enthralling; however, they do feel good in the hand.
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If Samsung and LG are proud to have the iconic Galaxy S and Optimus G respectively, now HTC has the same thing to be proud of, the new HTC One. Featuring a metal inibody design, the HTC’s new iconic smartphone is wrapped in a zero-gap aluminium unibody that I think it’s really cool. The body is all metal, and HTC claimed itself as the world’s first company to successfully create a full metal phone. Read this to get the full story of making it.
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As the latest smartphone in Ascend series, the HUAWEI Ascend D2 runs on Android 4.1 and features a 5-inch FHD IPS+ 443 PPI Super Retina LCD display, Huawei’s K3V2 1.5 GHz quad-core CPU and a 13 MP BSI camera. Regarding battery life, the Ascend D2 has a stand-by time of six days on WCDMA, thank to the 3000mAh battery and Huawei’s proprietary Quick Power Control (QPC) and Automated Discontinuous Reception (ADRX) battery efficiency technology.
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You may have been waiting for the ZTE‘s slimmets quad-core smartphone since last year. If you live in Hongkong, then you’re very lucky since the Grand Era V985 was launched by ZTE las week in the country. Powered by NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core 1.5GHz processor, the Grand Era V985 measures just 7.9mm thick and weighing 115g. Regarding display, the ZTE’s monster is equipped with the NVIDIA 12-core Geforce graphics processor to power its 4.5-inch screen at 1280 x 720 pixel. Priced at HK$ 2,999 (equal to USD $386), this Android-based smartphone has an 8-megapixel camera that captures 1080p HD. And last but not least, it boasts ZTE’s proprietary MiFavor user interface to deliver more intelligent and intuitive way to control the device.
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Powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, GALAXY Express boasts a 4.5” WVGA Super AMOLED Plus display. This feature-rich smartphone supports 4G LTE network for faster multimedia streaming and downloads. It’s also NFC-capable and coming with dual camera to satisfy young social explorer like you! GALAXY Express is equipped with a 8GB User memory ＋ 1GB (RAM), and microSD slot for storage expansion up to 32GB. Other highlights include: S Beam; A-GPS, Glonass; Bluetooth v4.0, USB 2.0, WiFi; and Standard battery, Li-ion 2,000mAh.
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