Offline

One expires downloads after 48 hours in some cases. Knowing which is the whole article.

One works with no signal. The other is useless without one, and better when it has one.

One has better discovery. The other has every live version, remix and cover ever uploaded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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