It’s a first-world problem, no question, but a car without a Bluetooth-compatible stereo is a car without joy. How else can you listen to music, audiobooks and podcasts streamed from your phone? The AUX-in jack? Sorry, your phone doesn’t have an output jack anymore. It’s Bluetooth or nothing! For years now, the workaround has been …
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With the iPhone XR and XS Max, the small phone is officially dead
So long, small phones! It’s been real. On Wednesday, Apple announced its trio of new iPhones, and with it, the company put the final nail in the coffin for rebooting a small, pocketable iPhone. That’s because the new lineup includes the 5.8-inch iPhone XS, the 6.1-inch iPhone XR and the 6.5-inch XS Max. Suddenly, last year’s biggest iPhone is now …
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A Gboard bug is turning some people’s typing into gibberish, and it’s pretty funny — for everyone except the person trying to type. Gboard is Google’s smart keyboard baked into Android phones (and available on iOS devices too), and several people on Reddit have reported running into problems that make typing on it near impossible. The bug reportedly messes with …
Read More »Chrome is bringing web fingerprint login to MacBook Pros and Android phones
Another use for the fingerprint sensor on your MacBook Pro or Android phone: a password-free way to log into websites and web apps with the Chrome web browser. In the Chrome 70 beta, fingerprint web authentication is now enabled by default for Android and MacOS, according to an official Google blog post. (No word on Windows laptops or iOS devices yet.) …
Read More »Elvie Pump is the next wearable breast pump to take your breath (and tubes and cords) away
This year has brought the introduction of not just one reinvented breast pump but — now — two. The latest is Elvie Pump, a wearable, all-in-one device. Since the advent of the electronic breast pump, women haven’t enjoyed much choice in pumps — you could rely on strapping on air horn-shaped flanges and dangling bottles from your chest, as tubes leashed …
Read More »Almost half of US cellphone calls will be scams by next year, says report
Many of us are already conditioned to ignore phone calls from unknown numbers. A new study seems to validate that M.O. By next year, nearly half of the mobile phone calls we get will be scams, according to a new report from First Orion, a company that provides calls management and protection for T-Mobile, MetroPCs, Virgin Mobile and others. The percentage of scam calls …
Read More »Apple to use LG Display as second OLED maker for iPhone XS, XS Max
Apple reportedly chose LG Display as its second supplier for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens used in the upcoming iPhone XS and XS Max. Apple gave the South Korean company the thumbs-up after its OLED panels passed the iPhone maker’s quality tests, according to Reuters, which cited an article in the South Korea-based Electronic Times that used an unidentified source. The …
Read More »No iPhone SE? No problem: This is the ‘budget’ iPhone to get
With all the hubbub surrounding the launch of the iPhone XR, iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, it was easy to overlook another Apple development: No more iPhone SE. In other words, no more “budget” option. The SE debuted at $399, but was cut to $349 with the arrival of the iPhone X and iPhone 8 last year. See also …
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