See this? It’s a USB-C-to-3.5 mm headphone jack adapter. It comes in the box of the new Moto Z, Motorola’s flagship phone with hot-swappable accessories…and no standard headphone jack. Instead, it just has USB-C. We just got our review units and did a quick unboxing. Is it annoying? Yes, it’s annoying. Ugh. Sarah Tew/CNET The …
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What does the world of modular phones look like? A world of larger carry bags. This Verizon tote looks like the thing I used to carry my Game Boy in. Bulky, zippered nylon. But it came in the reviewer’s bag for the Moto Z, a phone coming via Verizon in the US. Motorola’s Moto Z is a sleek phone, full …
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I checked the status of my egg. My one egg. Incubating, and only 1.1 km out of 2…even after a full day of walking. Oh, you have to keep the app on? Welcome to the single-tasking world of Pokemon Go. If there’s one thing that bugs me more than anything else about the phenomenon that’s Pokemon Go, it’s this: you …
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After using iOS 10’s public beta for half a week, I’m surprised that my favorite feature isn’t even something I knew about. It slipped my mind somehow while covering Apple’s developer conference. But I think it’s my favorite bit of design in the entire OS update. And I wonder, maybe, if it’s a preview of what the Apple Watch 2 …
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Apple’s newest version of its mobile software iOS becomes available today for a public test drive. Is the beta for iOS 10 worth it? I’ve been using it for a long weekend, with a preloaded version on an iPhone 6S provided by Apple. As always, going with a beta OS is a bit of a risky journey on your everyday …
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Lyft, the second-largest ride-sharing service in the US behind Uber, might be looking for investors. Or, maybe, a sale. The company has hired investment bank Qatalyst Partners, according to a report Monday from The Wall Street Journal. Qatalyst has been involved in sales of other tech companies, including LinkedIn’s recent monster deal with Microsoft. Qatalyst declined to comment. Lyft did …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The thing I carry around with me almost every day in my bag is a 9.7-inch iPad Pro. I’ve had an iPad with me in some form, usually, for years. It’s redundant, probably. But it’s my security blanket. It’s small. Versatile. I can …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. My first impressions of iOS 10, seeing it up close, were of those smart notifications that now pop up whenever the phone is lifted. No button-pressing necessary. Sure, Android has done that already. But what I liked the most on iOS 10 was …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The Apple Watch is Apple’s most beleaguered product. It’s not fast enough. It’s not always intuitive. It’s not the best fitness tracker. But that might change very soon. And at Apple’s WWDC developers conference, the company wasted no time addressing all of the …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I should have known there was a problem when Apple discussed how it would go deeper into four platforms, even though I counted five. Apple Watch. iPhone. Apple TV. Mac. And iPad. I can understand why the number was four: WatchOS, TVOS, iOS …
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