Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As noted in a post this week on the Avast Decoded threat intelligence blog, those apps have all racked up at least 100,000 ...

Flashlight apps are a dying breed. Google began adding them to Android as early as Lollipop, and OEMs have included them on their OEM skins for far longer. The need for this dwindles as the market ...

It's a tool that comes in handy often. Since the dawn of the smartphone, the back-facing camera array's LED camera flash has led a double life as a flashlight. Most modern smartphones now have an ...

Android's handy flashlight feature is helpful during power outages. Though if you are not in danger of facing an immediate outage, you'd likely want a flashlight to check dark corners for missing ...

The iPhone 4 has an LED flash for use when snapping photos or shooting videos. So it didn’t take long for developers to come out with third party apps that can keep that LED light on indefinitely, ...

If you’ve ever wondered what the point of those flashlight apps are, wonder no more: they are kick-butt investigation tools. The next time you need to crawl down a 150-foot electrical conduit and ...

A fundamental and downright essential app on a smartphone is the flashlight. There are free flashlight apps for all platforms, and it is often the first app downloaded to a new phone. From the time ...

A flashlight is a basic tool that's good to have as part of any emergency kit. They come in various sizes and different brightness levels. It's also an item that most of us carry around in our pockets ...