Mobile Highlights

Whether you're meeting up with friends or want to remember where you parked your car, Google Maps on your smartphone can be a lifesaver.

Annie breaks down the top 10 iOS apps of the year for games, entertainment, and lifestyle based on YOUR downloads, tracked by Crosswalk!

A new smartphone app called SceneTap is letting bar and club-goers get a feel for the scene before stepping into it. The app uses cameras hooked up in the locations and facial recognition software to give users statistics on male-to-female ratios, age range and overall popularity of the drinking holes.

Whether you're looking to sell your iPhone and you accidentally deleted the operating system, or you want to downgrade from iOS 4, Device Firmware Update mode will help you out. Getting into it is simple yet tricky, so here's guidance on a fast way to wipe and restore your iPhone.

Apple's Safari is wack - so what's the best alternative, third-party browser for your iPhone? Annie compares Vanilla Surf and the (approved by Apple, surprisingly!) Opera Mini.

AJ Vickery puts the Garmin Nuvi 1690 GPS navigation system against Google Maps Navigation on the HTC Desire.

We highlight five of the most useful features you may not know about like the new split keyboard and custom vibration settings.

The New York Times has been expanding "vertical" Apps around specific editorial with the recent launch of an iPhone App for the 2012 election and an iPad App for fashion called the Collection.While the paper sees growth in consumption in Apps, it is also "excited about HTML5" as a publishing platform says Fiona Spruill, Editor, Emerging Platforms, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Want to use a different web browser? You don't have to use the default web browser that your phone shipped with. Ron Richard shows you the free Skyfire app for Android!

Get better calling service on your iPhone and turn your iPod Touch into a phone! Give your device two calling lines and a bunch of advanced calling feautres!

Maryam Mehrtash shows us a couple apps that allow you edit your photos on your iPhone: Photo FX and Retro Camera. These apps let you edit your photos to give them any look and feel that you want.

Explore UNICEF Phography's new iPhone app, launched today. Developed by SkinnyApps.com, the app is available for free to all iPhone users worldwide.

At Macworld 2010, Sachmanya co-founder Chintu Parikh demos Yapper, a new do-it-yourself software program that allows developers to create an iPhone app without knowing any programming code.

When songs from compilation albums get organized into separate albums on your iPod, it makes listening to complete albums difficult. We'll show you how to keep all your songs organized in the right albums and with the right artists.