QWiz.Me! - Train with a Wiz - Android App Review

QWiz.Me! - Train with a Wiz by Meta4 Solutions - Android App Review    

It seems our Android smartphones can help every facet of our lives, from the way we communicate, the way we play or enjoy our selves by watching videos or listening to music to the basic security of our family. In fact, there is almost nothing our smartphones, with the help of the right apps of course, can't help us.  

Which of course makes us VERY happy to come across an app that addresses something that is VERY important to us, yet seldom gets the attention it deserves. We are talking about the education and advancement of our kids, of course. It is the sad truth that while our younger generations are smarter than their elders, yet they are less educated and know a LOT less than the generation before them knew.

What can we do? Young people are glued to screens of various sizes from the crib, from smartphones to tablets to TVs to smart watches to cinema. It has become their favorite and almost only way to look upon the world and learn things about. So, some smart people at Meta4 Solutions asked, why can't we use that fixation to put some knowledge and understand into young peoples' heads?

Well, let's introduce QWiz.Me!, an app that lights a candle of knowledge in front of people of all ages, though of course the young are its main users. The app contains quizzes, tests, links to tutorials and more about a wide variety of subjects, from Math to English and more. The user takes quizzes, gets to see and check his or her answers and then go on to increasingly difficult tests.

The app is VERY user friendly and beautifully designed, all to make the learning experience all that more pleasurable. In fact, just using the app for fifteen to thirty minutes a day is guaranteed to help the user along in his or her studies to the material in hand.

Naturally, there is an extensive array of reports, from standard status report to compartive reports showing how the user advanced from the beginning and how he or she is doing compared to the majority of people his or her age.

Turning learning into a fun and rewarding experience on the platform young people love the most, our own smartphone's screen, must be ranked among the better uses anyone anywhere can think to put his or her smartphones to.

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Bus Simulator Racing - Android App Featured Review

Bus Simulator Racing by Universal Games - Android App Featured Review    

For many people, one of the main uses they put their smartphones to is gaming. Let's face it, making calls, sending and receiving messages was possible more than ten years ago with those old, bulky, indestructible Nokia phones. But these days, with those powerful, connected and graphic capable Android smartphones (yeah, the other kind too), gaming has risen to new heights. 

And the new game we present here is a great example to everything that is good in Android gaming. First of all, lets describe the game itself. Bus Simulator Racing is a very unusual racing game. You do get to drive a vehicle as fast as possible but this is where all similarity ends. You drive a double decker bus through some fantastic English landscape and you have to get your students to school on time. 

The game is far from simple or easy. Universal Games has put in a real effort to make driving the bus as realistic as possible, which makes for a great driving experience, but one that is also fairly hard to master. Your bus will drift, skid, slide and do all sorts of things a REAL bus would do when driven as extreme speeds on uneven roads. 

You, the player, must show some real driving skills in order to drive the bus safely. You've got to develop a feel for the bus, for its performance and the roads is must travel on. Beware of brides, because skidding over them may well cause your bus to plunge into a chasm, ending the game. But of course, this difficulty is what makes the game so fun. 

The producers of Bus Simulator Racing have some very smart decisions that result in a game we are proud to showcase. First all all, the graphics are gorgeous, even on mid tier devices. Everything is crystal clear, painstakingly drawn and colorfully rendered, making this game a treat for the eye. Of course, using tilt controls instead of those idiotic virtual joysticks also goes a long way.

Graphics, realistic driving experience, tilt controls and of course global ranking where everyone can compete with players around the world and important but the thing we actually liked the most was the lack of violence. In our busy, violent and conflict filled world it is more than refreshing to review a game that is player friendly, does not require killing anyone to win the game and offers players a real positive experience.

Yeah, we think you guessed it. We like this game!

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