The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Apple The iPhone 6 will arrive in several major countries come September 19. China won’t be among them, but the reason for its exclusion is a bit of a mystery. The problem may lie with the Chinese government. Apple’s latest iPhone reportedly has not yet received the necessary …
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Google Android 4.4 KitKat has bitten off almost 25 percent of all Android devices. Revealing the latest stats for its mobile OS on its Android Developers Dashboard page on Wednesday, Google pegged KitKat’s share at 24.5 percent. That number includes all devices recorded at the Google Play store over the seven-day period that ended September 9. The latest percentage shows …
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The new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. CNET Add Target to the list of retailers that will be selling the iPhone 6. Following Apple’s launch event on Tuesday, Target announced that it will offer preorders on the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models starting September 12. That’s the same day other retailers will offer the phone for …
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You can watch Tuesday’s entire Apple event via iTunes. Apple/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET If you missed Apple’s live presentation of the iPhone 6 and Watch on Tuesday, you can still view the entire event. At Tuesday’s two-hour launch event, Apple worked to wow consumers with a range of new products, including the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus , the …
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CNET The widely anticipated iPhone 6 could help trigger record iPhone sales — as many as 235 million units — in fiscal 2015. At least, that’s the number seen in the crystal ball of JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall. In an investors note released Monday, Hall said that the most bullish prediction at this point calls for 235 million iPhones …
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Will NFC finally make its ways to the iPhone? CNET Apple will finally dive into the mobile-payments market with NFC tech for the iPhone 6 — and for an iWatch — according to a report published Sunday by a banking news site. Citing “sources close to Apple and with knowledge of Apple’s plans for its new smartphone,” Bank Innovation reported …
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The iPad 2 remains the most popular version of Apple’s tablet. James Martin/CNET The iPhone 5 and iPad 2 remain the most popular models among consumers, says a new report. Looking at the number of iPhone models detected on its mobile network, Localytics pegged the iPhone 5 at a 27 percent share followed by last year’s iPhone 5S with a …
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screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET You can score as much as $300 if you buy a new Moto X or Moto G smartphone and trade in an existing phone with the right value, courtesy of a new deal from Motorola. Available through the company’s trade-in page, the promotion works as follows: Enter the brand of the phone you wish to trade …
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The iPhone’s Passbook app was a small step by Apple into the mobile-payments world. James Martin/CNET Will this be the year that Apple fully dives into the mobile-payments market? JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall believes so and suggests three different scenarios for how Apple might run such a system. Speculation has run rampant for years over when Apple might introduce …
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CNET Android lost a tiny bit of ground in US market share this summer but still remained way ahead of Apple’s iOS, according to a ComScore report released Friday. The latest report from the research firm pegged Google’s operating system for mobile devices with a 51.5 percent share of the US market for the three months ending with July, down …
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