The iPad Air 2 sports a 15 percent smaller battery. Apple says the tablet maintains its 10-hour battery life thanks to its A8X chip and software improvements. iFixit Apple says its flagship iPad Air 2 tablet gets the same 10 hours of use as last year’s original iPad Air, even though a teardown of a …
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The Apple Watch, due out in early 2015, is expected to breath new life into the wearable market. James Martin/CNET The Apple Watch is not expected to arrive until next year, yet consumers are already crowning it as the most exciting wearable gadget out there. Apple’s was the most highly anticipated wearable device among respondents to a survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers, …
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The iPad Air 2 and the iPad Mini 3 are Apple’s latest tablets, but join an existing family of devices that the company plans to continue selling at discounted prices. James Martin/CNET Apple has never sold so many different types of iPad tablets all at the same time. After the debut of the iPad Air 2 and the iPad Mini …
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Preorders for the iPad Mini 3 start Friday. It begins shipping as soon as next week. James Martin/CNET Sticking to its tried and true formula, Apple has refreshed its smaller, more discrete iPad Mini tablet. The 7.9-inch gadget, just two inches shy of the company’s flagship iPad Air, now comes with the fingerprint-reading technology Touch ID. But besides that, the …
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With the upcoming Windows 10, Microsoft is hoping to leave Windows 8 in the dust. Nick Statt/CNET There are quite a few theories floating around out there as to why Microsoft decided to name the latest version of its flagship operating system Windows 10 , skipping over Windows 9. On Tuesday, the company unveiled the name and showed off a …
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Microsoft VPs Joe Belfiore (right) and Terry Myerson gives a live demo of Windows 10 onstage at a press event in San Francisco, Calif., on September 30. Nick Statt/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft just said no to 9. The follow-on to the current Windows 8 operating system will be known as Windows 10 . Originally codenamed Windows Threshold, the new …
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A UX/UI designer has given Apple’s smartwatch the round treatment, envisioning how a circular wearable from the iPhone maker might look down the line. Alcion For Apple, time is not a flat circle, but a pudgy square. When Apple unveiled its long-rumored wearable device on Tuesday, a square-faced smartwatch simply called Apple Watch , crowds were divided. According to social …
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The original iPod music player debuted 13 years ago, in October 2001. It remained one of Apple’s core product categories over the years, despite declining sales and a world of listeners increasingly more reliant on streaming subscription services. Now, as Apple moves into larger-screen smartphones and wearable devices for our wrists with the unveiling of the iPhone 6 and Apple …
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The Moto 360 sporting the Secret Agent Watchface, a design that borrows from the wrist gadget featured in the N64 Bond classic GoldenEye 007. Phandroid The Moto 360 has only been out in the wild for less than a week now after gadget reviewers and Android enthusiasts took home units from Motorola’s Chicago launch event. Yet that was plenty of …
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Interface designer Todd Hamilton released an iWatch mock-up in January 2014, showing the world what an Apple watch-wristband combo might look like. Todd Hamilton If the rumors are true, Apple may unveil a wearable device along with its new iPhone at an event on Sept. 9. But will that wearable be the long-rumored “iWatch,” a wrist-based smartwatch built off Apple’s …
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