Apple’s iOS 7 comes out swinging with an overhauled design that reskins practically every element with a gleaming-new interface. From what we’ve seen so far (including hands-on time with iOS 7 on an iPhone 5), we like the latest ‘do. A lot. While some new behaviors go along with the updated apps, iOS 7’s changes …
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June, 2013
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10 June
AT&T brings enhanced push
AT&T has unveiled an iOS app that turns the iPhone into a walkie-talkie for the business world. Known as Enhanced Push-to-Talk (Enhanced PTT), the new app brings two-radio features to the iPhone 5 and 4S. With PTT, mobile users can talk to one person via a private call or a large number of people though a group call. And like …
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10 June
iOS 7 Photos, Camera apps get better shooting, sharing
Now playing: Watch this: iOS 7 gets revamped photos app 5:02 A little bit of organization can go a long way — especially when it comes to pictures and videos. That seems to be the theme for the improvements coming to iOS 7’s Photos and Camera apps, with new features to help rediscover the photos you’ve already taken and make …
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10 June
What iOS 7 feature excites you the most? (poll)
It’s official: iOS 7 arrives this fall, bringing with it a Cook’s ransom in new features and a fairly radical new design. I suspect the latter will spark the most conversation, with some users no doubt finding the much-ballyhooed “flat” icons just plain flat. (My take: They’ve transformed from pretty to ugly. I like the new fonts and overall design, …
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10 June
Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom leaks, has optical zoom
We’ve already had a glimpse of what could be the Galaxy S4 Zoom, but now what appears to be a proper press picture has surfaced online, showing off the device’s optical zoom lens. Which you’d expect it to have, with a name like that. The image comes courtesy of SamMobile. But that’s not all. Over at TechTastic, someone’s got their …
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10 June
Sony announces Australian prices for new 4K Bravia range
Sony officially launched its range of smaller-sized 4K TVs in Australia late last month, although at the time no pricing was made available for the products. (Credit: Sony) Sony has now confirmed that it will sell the 55-inch Bravia 4K at AU$5999, and the 65-inch model at AU$8999. In the US, the current retail prices for the two TVs are …
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10 June
LG 55
Got a spare £9,000 knocking around the house? Why not spend it on a new telly? LG’s 55-inch curved OLED affair, the snappily-named 55EA9800, will start shipping in the next few days, the company said in a press release. The set was first shown off at CES, then back in April LG announced it would start selling it. And that …
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9 June
AT&T bumps up device upgrade wait time from 20 to 24 months
Following the lead of Verizon Wireless, AT&T has increased the period of time customers must wait to upgrade their devices. Customers who had previously had to wait 20 months before they were eligible for an AT&T-subsidized device will now have to wait 24 months, the wireless carrier announced on a company blog Sunday. The change applies to all new customers …
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9 June
The carriers’ not
When it comes to building out a network to deliver high-speed wireless service, size increasingly doesn’t matter. In fact, the wireless industry, which usually thinks big, has been buzzing about something a bit more diminutive. Wireless executives can’t go through a public speech without mentioning them, tech conferences devote whole sections toward them, and one trade group has named itself …
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8 June
How supersensitive screens get touch
For all of your smartphone-owning life, you’ve been told you can’t use your expensive device while wearing gloves, no matter how low the mercury plummets. You weren’t really sure why, you just knew it wasn’t going to happen. And so rocketed sales of fingerless gloves, conductive gloves, and even conductive thread for those brave (or thrifty!) enough to hack their …
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