Apple’s new iPad Pro finally has an official launch date. The tablet will go on sale Wednesday on Apple’s website and will hit the shelves at Apple stores, authorized retailers and some wireless carriers later in the week in more than 40 countries, Apple said Monday. Unveiled by Apple in early September, the iPad Pro …

You might be able to get Samsung’s next Galaxy S smartphone for less. The company could price the Galaxy S7 around 10 percent lower than its Galaxy S6, according to China-based analyst Pan Jiutang as reported Monday by the Times of India. That wouldn’t be unprecedented thinking for Samsung. In July, the South Korea-based electronics giant said it would adjust …

It’s taken a while, but the Lollipop version of Google’s Android mobile software has reached one-quarter of all Android devices. Lollipop’s exact share now stands at 25.6 percent, according to an update to Google’s Android Developers Dashboard page on Wednesday, up marginally from early October. The number includes all devices recorded at the Google Play store over the seven-day period …

Flickr’s online photo storage app now takes advantage of the 3D Touch feature in Apple’s new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. Released Thursday, Flickr for iOS version 4.0.6 uses Apple’s 3D Touch to help you access certain features. Introduced with the new iPhones and the iOS 9 mobile software, 3D Touch helps you perform tasks a little faster, with …

Apple has reportedly expanded the reach of its first smartwatch to India seven months after the initial launch. The watch went on sale Friday via Apple’s retail markets throughout the country, just ahead of the Diwali holiday shopping season, The Times of India and other local news sources reported. The device will be available in its three usual variations — …

The Apple Watch is dominating the smartwatch market. Since its official launch on April 24, the Apple Watch has snagged a sizable lead with total worldwide shipments of almost 7 million units, research firm Canalys said Wednesday. That figure, covering just two quarters, was higher than the shipments of all other vendors combined over the previous five quarters, Canalys said. …

Apple’s latest update to the software that runs iPhones and iPads was meant in part to fix several bugs, but it seems to have created a new one, at least for some users of the popular gadgets. According to posts on Apple’s Support Communities website, the update, called iOS 9.1 and released October 21, causes problems with the fingerprint sensor …

Apple’s newest mobile software has seen a small gain in adoption over the past couple of weeks. As of November 2, iOS 9 was gracing 66 percent of all iOS devices, a group that includes iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, according to Apple’s App Store Distribution page. That’s up from 61 percent on October 19, a decent gain following a …

Consumers who find the latest iPhone displays a tad too large for their tastes may get a small victory in 2016. An iPhone with a 4-inch-screen could debut alongside next year’s expected iPhone 7, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a Tuesday note to investors picked up by AppleInsider. The phone reportedly would be similar in functionality to the …

Should you ever have the urge to open your Surface Book to try to fix a problem, resist it. Released on October 26 to shake up the laptop market, Microsoft’s Surface Book , has garnered generally good reviews for its solid design and powerful features. But a teardown published Monday from the folks at iFixit found the device a chore …