As far as Apple is concerned, the headphone jack is extinct. Apple announced the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR at its event on Wednesday. With the new iPhones coming in, Apple has stopped selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, iPhone 6S and 6S Plus and iPhone SE — meaning that the last iPhones to …

Shortly after the Apple event ended I wrote a story about what new products Apple didn’t announce at the event. One of those products was the AirPods 2 — or whatever Apple plans to call them. Many people expected Apple to introduce them on Wednesday. Not only didn’t it mention new AirPods but we got nothing on its AirPower Wireless …

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has some thoughts about the hierarchy of streaming video services.  “I think of Netflix kind of as the Walmart of [subscription video on-demand services]. HBO is kind of the Tiffany,” Stephenson said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference on Wednesday, CNBC reported.  In June, AT&T  completed its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, the high-profile entertainment company behind networks …

Today is more of a public service announcement than an outright deal, though it certainly is a deal. As you may know, Apple is expected to take the wraps off the Apple Watch Series 4 in just a few hours. The specs are still a mystery, but the price is not: If it follows the Series 3 model, it would …

Apple is dropping the price of its Watch Series 3. The smartwatch now starts at $279 for the GPS model, the company announced at its product event in Cupertino, California, on Wednesday. Customers can get the smartwatch at the new price after the event. It previously started at $329 on Apple’s site. Now playing: Watch this: Apple Watch 4 gets larger screens, …

Verizon’s 5G home broadband service, Verizon 5G Home, launches in select areas on Oct. 1 at a cost of $50 for Verizon Wireless customers and $70 for customers who don’t use Verizon Wireless. The company is promising home broadband speeds from 300 megabits per second up to 1 gigabit per second. Where is it available? Verizon 5G Home will be …

Apple’s letting you embrace your inner duality with your iPhone. At Wednesday’s Apple event, the company announced the launch of dual-SIM support for the iPhone. Both the iPhone XS and the iPhone XS Max will offer the dual SIM card option.  This will allow you to have two different phone numbers and two different carriers on the same phone. While …

Blink and you might have missed it, but Apple announced Wednesday that its new and relatively inexpensive iPhone XR will come with a feature we’ve been wanting for years — a way to easily turn on the flashlight and launch the camera with a single hand. Instead of swiping to summon Apple’s Control Center and tapping the icon, you’ll now be …

If your heart’s beating faster, the new Apple Watch Series 4 will be able to tell. The latest Apple Watch packs several new features, with the most obvious change on its surface: a redesigned face to put much more screen on your wrist.  It’s about time.  The tech giant on Wednesday unveiled its new Apple Watch Series 4 from the …

Bad news, classic Droid fans — you won’t get a chance to add a slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard to your Moto Z phone after all. Lenovo’s indie partner on the keyboard, a company called Livermorium, has decided to scrap the project. Though Livermorium raised over $160,000 in contributions on Indiegogo for its Livermorium Keyboard Slider, the company’s latest update posted Wednesday …

The new iPhone XS, XS Max and XR have arrived, and carrier US Mobile is dangling one seriously tasty “switch carrot.” As in, “Switch to US Mobile and we’ll give you $400.” It works like this: Activate a new line of service (with a new or ported-in number) for your iPhone XR, iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max and US …

If you are taking a pass on Apple’s new flagship phone, the iPhone XS Max, and are ready to make the leap to a big-screen Android phone — say, the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, the LG V30 or the upcoming Pixel 3 XL — here are a few tips to help you make the switch. …

Apple Watch Edition is no more. The tech giant on Wednesday announced Apple Watch Series 4 at its event in Cupertino, California, though it didn’t mention anything about the special edition models. Yes, the expensive ceramic watch is gone. However, Nike+ is still here and it now has a new band that’s designed to help you stand out during nighttime. …

To make room for three new iPhone models — the iPhone XS, XS Max and iPhone XR — Apple will no longer sell the iPhone 6S, 6S Plus, iPhone SE and iPhone X.  Prices start at $749 for the new iPhones (see the chart below), but those looking for an iPhone bargain can still get the iPhone 7 and 7 …

The iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR are now fully revealed by Apple, and all of those announcements flew by fast. With the iPhone X now out of the Apple Store, your iPhone X choices for the next year boil down to one of these phones (though you could still get the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, or …