Jason Cipriani/CNET Share Sheets are what Apple has named the popups you see when you share a photo, link, document, or any other sort of data with another app installed on your device. After installing an app that allows for sharing, or use, within another app, you may have a hard time finding its icon …
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The latest flavor of iOS has landed. Josh Miller/CNET Hot on the heels of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch announcement comes the wide availability of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 8 . Download day is often full of early upgraders rushing to be the first to try out the new system. It also means some people run into …
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Now playing: Watch this: Scan your credit card in iOS 8 for faster purchases 0:54 Entering your credit card number for online purchases is a nuisance, particularly on a small iPhone keyboard. You likely have your credit card information stored with the online retailers that you frequent often, but for purchases at sites where you haven’t saved your payment information, …
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JuliusKielaitis/Shutterstock Good news for beleaguered staff of ailing mobile phone shop Phones 4U: Vodafone has agreed to buy 140 of the failing chain’s stores, saving approximately 900 jobs. Phones 4U, a third-party retail chain built on selling phones and contracts from across the different UK networks, was holed below the waterline when Vodafone and EE pulled out from their partnerships …
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Matt Elliott/CNET After updating to iOS 8, many iPhone owners apparently freaked out the first time they opened the Photos app. Judging by various Apple Support pages, people thought perhaps their photos had vanished when they didn’t see the familiar Camera Roll album that had housed all of their iPhone’s photos in previous iOS versions. Gone, too, is Photo Stream, …
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Voice dictation in action on iOS 8. Jason Cipriani/CNET With the changes to voice dictation in iOS 8, the biggest pain point of using the feature has been eliminated — that being the Done button. That is to say, once you’re running iOS 8, you can start voice dictation as you normally would, but you only have to press the …
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CNET I pulled my iPhone 5S out of my pocket. It’s ridden shotgun with me the whole week I’ve been testing the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus . Trading phones back and forth, comparing sizes. The iPhone 5S still has my SIM card; the 6 and 6 Plus use test SIM cards. So, it’s the 5S that rings when someone …
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Tim Cook’s Apple is a more collaborative place. CNET For his first three years as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook has had to fend off barbs that the tech giant has lost its edge as an innovator. Cook last week offered plenty of reasons to reconsider those accusations. After unveiling the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, the Apple Pay mobile-payment …
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Josh Miller/CNET Apple’s new “Hey, Siri” command allows you to wake your iOS device while it’s charging (and only when it’s charging) by declaiming, “Hey, Siri” and waiting for the familiar beeps. The feature can be enabled by going to Settings > General > Siri. There you’ll find a new switch to turn on the voice command. Settings path to …
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Amazon added seven new members to the Kindle family, with models ranging in price from $80 to $380. Watch CNET Update below for a simple breakdown of the new e-readers and tablets — including new kid-friendly Kindles: Now playing: Watch this: Rounding up Amazon’s 7 new Kindles 2:54 Also in this tech-news roundup: Amazon purchases .buy domain extension for $4.6 …
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Mantis Vision also partnered with Google to include its technology in its Project Tango smartphones and tablets. Mantis Vision While 3D technology has attracted the attention of tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Samsung, a small Israel-based company aims to make it easier for hardware makers to adopt the technology and for software developers to create it. Mantis Vision …
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Woz is pumped for a bigger iPhone 6 with Apple Pay. James Martin/CNET Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is one of the most likable guys in tech — but that doesn’t mean he always likes everything. That Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs biopic? Woz said it got a lot wrong. Wearables? Woz says they’re a hard sell. But Woz sure likes Apple’s …
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Republic Wireless Think you can’t afford a smartphone? Think again. Next month, Republic Wireless will begin selling the Android-powered Motorola Moto E for $99 without a contract. And as with the carrier’s other phones, monthly service plans start at $5. The Moto E is a decidedly entry-level model, with a 4.3-inch screen, 4GB of storage (expandable, thankfully), a 5-megapixel camera, …
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Droid still does. Verizon and Motorola team up for another Droid smartphone. Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless’s premier smartphone franchise, the Droid line, will get a new sibling when the carrier unveils another Droid smartphone next month, according to people familiar with the launch plans. The exact date hasn’t yet been determined. The latest Droid will be built by Motorola Mobility, …
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The iPad in the background has Safari open, with the iPhone displaying a Safari icon to open the same webpage from the lock screen. Jason Cipriani/CNET Prior to iOS 8, if you started to compose an email on your iPhone, only to decide you want to finish it on an iPad or Mac, you’d have to save it to your …
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