The tablet industry continues to shrink, but not for everyone. Amazon boosted tablet sales by 99.4 percent last year, according to TrendForce. It sold over 11 million Fire tablets in 2016. However, total tablet shipments were down by 6.6 percent. Apple‘s iPad sales dipped 14.1 percent, but the company retained its top spot, selling 42 …
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Why are autoplaying Facebook videos suddenly screaming at you? Weren’t they supposed to be silent — and thus easy to consume in public places without subjecting you to embarassment? No more: Facebook has just decided to start autoplaying audio whenever you scroll past an autoplaying video in your News Feed, with an update rolling out today. If that’s not your …
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Flipboard wants to get personal. The maker of the news aggregator app unveiled a major redesign on Wednesday, its biggest update in two years. The crux of the update is a change in how Flipboard organizes the stories it shows you. Instead of just grouping articles on several different subjects into one big digital “magazine,” Flipboard’s 100 million monthly users …
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Now playing: Watch this: How to choose your next iPad 2:18 If you’ve had your eye on the 9.7-inch iPad Pro tablet but couldn’t justify the $600 price tag, now’s the time to take the plunge. Effective today, Target is discounting the tablet by $150 at all storage capacities. That translates to: 32GB iPad Pro for $450 (25 percent off …
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Stylus fans, rejoice! The rumored Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 could come with Samsung’s S Pen upon release, SamMobile reports. The tablet is expected to be announced February 26 at the annual Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, and would replace Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S2, a device that earned a positive CNET review. A stylus would gear the tablet more toward …
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The 9.7-inch iPad Pro was my favorite Apple product of last year. It stayed in my bag and near me constantly. It’s super-polished. It’s the best example of a product that just checks off the extras you’re looking for, and delivers. Is it a new-feeling thing? No. But it’s very, very functional. It might even be, for all purposes as …
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Familiarity breeds comfort. At least, that’s the case with the iPhone 7. Apple hardly changed the body of its flagship phone, yet consumers cozied up to the device like never before. Apple sold more iPhones than ever before — 78.3 million — and snapped a three-quarter streak of iPhone unit sales declines. Analysts had expected the company to sell 78 …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s ‘theater mode’ debuts on a smaller screen 1:24 Get ready to be a little less annoyed by all of those Apple Watches in movie theaters. Maybe. Apple on Monday introduced a beta version of its WatchOS 3.2 software to developers, letting them take advantage of new features Apple will eventually distribute to all Apple Watch …
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Apple’s online tool meant to help prevent the use of lost or stolen iPhones may have actually aided phone thieves. Apple has removed the Check Activation Lock Status page from iCloud.com. The change was noted Sunday by MacRumors. The page let people check the status of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch by plugging in the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment …
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Now playing: Watch this: The easy way to check if a phone is lost or stolen 1:04 Planning to buy a used iPhone or iPad? If you’re buying it from an individual, whether locally or from a source like Ebay, things just got a little trickier. Enlarge Image Where have you gone, Activation Lock checker? Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET For …
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