Apple has suspended its Watch OS 5.1 software update after some users on Twitter and Reddit reported the update was “bricking” their Series 4 watches, causing an endless boot loop. The software update had gone live only hours earlier, alongside iOS 12.1. The problem wasn’t happening to everyone: I was able to update the Series 4 without issue. But enough users …
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The next iPad Pro is likely to be the highlight of Tuesday’s Apple event in Brooklyn. While nothing is confirmed, Apple’s next tablet is widely expected to get a complete redesign in the spirit of the iPhone X: A nearly all-screen design, with tiny bezels (supposedly notchless) housing a Face ID sensor in lieu of the late, great Touch ID …
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At Magic Leap’s first LEAP developer conference on Wednesday, the focus was largely on inspiring artists and developers to find ways to create (or be interested in creating) augmented reality worlds. The company’s Magic Leap One headset has been available only in a handful of US cities up till now. Today it’s available across the entire US. The price remains the same, …
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Sliding into an October already full of watches and wearables, the Fitbit Charge 3 — which hits stores today, starting at $149 (£130, AU$230) — promises to be the company’s best general fitness tracker. And yet: Fitbit already has a watch, the Fitbit Versa, that does a lot of the same things (and a bit more) for just $50 more. …
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Google’s big fall hardware event is coming on October 9, but there’s no new Google Pixel Watch on the horizon. Instead, a flurry of new Google Wear OS watches are arriving to try to capture more of the wearable market. There’s also a WearOS software update, available Friday, that changes the interface: mostly, for the better. I’ve been using it …
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It’s not gold, but it’s definitely very silver. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 debuted in some unique colors like lavender and deep blue with a bright yellow S Pen, and now it’s getting the more standard black and silver tones, coming to the US very soon. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 in a new Cloud Silver, and all its colors +14 …
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The fifth Oculus Connect developer conference is underway in San Jose, California this week. Besides being a place for VR developers to meet up and discuss the future of immersive technologies, Facebook — the owner of Oculus — laid out its next steps for where VR (and AR) will head. And yes, that includes new hardware: the $399 wireless Oculus …
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Standalone VR is about to ramp up in a big way. Mark Zuckerberg, at the Oculus Connect keynote, announced on Wednesday that the Oculus Quest next-gen headset is coming next spring, for the aggressive price of $399. The headset, previously demoed as Project Santa Cruz, is a mobile device that adds full-room tracking and PC-like motion controls. The Oculus Quest …
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I love lots of information on my wrist. I love good, clean, interesting designs. Those two things don’t always work well together. The Apple Watch Series 4, however, sometimes nails it really well, and it’s a clear step up over the Apple Watch Series 3. But it’s not always as big a leap as I expected. The Apple Watch S4 …
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Most smartwatches don’t last for more than a few hours of connected running with GPS. Dedicated GPS watches do much better. Polar’s newest training watches could be ones to look for, based on their promised battery life alone: the new Vantage V lasts a whopping 40 hours with GPS and heart rate on, Polar says. Both the Vantage V and …
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