The good news is that iPhones with foolishly small 16GB amounts of storage are mostly vanishing from the market. The bad news is that it won’t be long before 32GB is the new 16GB. When Apple began selling the first iPhone in 2007, it came with what now seems a laughably inadequate 4GB supply of …
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Now playing: Watch this: Mario jumps onto Apple’s iPhone 1:24 Mario. On an iPhone. It’s happening. Enlarge Image GIF by Morgan Little/CNET Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto just showed off Super Mario Run, a official Nintendo game coming to iPhone and iPad this December, at Apple’s San Francisco event. Miyamoto declares: “Now, Mario is running toward his next goal: iPhone.” The …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple Music gets a boost before iPhone 7 launch 2:09 With just days to go before Apple’s next announcement event on September 7, even more details on what could be coming to an expected iPhone 7 are appearing. A report issued this weekend by a respected Apple analyst predicts that a new iPhone device expected to …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple unveils iOS 10, packs it with new features 3:43 Ever wondered how much time you spend in Facebook or Snapchat on a daily basis? What about over the course of a week? Well, now you can find out for sure. With just a few taps you can view on-screen time — a metric that equates …
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Snapseed, a Google photo editor that goes beyond the basics of Google Photos, just got a little more serious. With Wednesday’s Snapseed 2.9 release for iPhones and iPads, the software now can edit raw-format photos, the pictures taken directly from a digital camera’s image sensor without any processing. Photo enthusiasts love raw photos. Although they’re more of a pain to …
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Would you like to use Apple’s stylus with your iPad? That is one of the planned software updates that will accompany hardware improvements already in development, sources tell Bloomberg. The updated iPad software, which is designed to cater to the needs of professionals, is expected to ship in 2017, the unidentified sources told the news outlet. The tech titan, which …
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When you think of smartphones and automation, your mind might immediately gravitate towards IFTTT or even Tasker for Android. Automation apps let you create “recipes” that enable devices and services to intermingle and act based on “triggers.” For example, you can make your smart lights pulse a certain color if you’re mentioned on Twitter or have Youtube videos you’ve selected …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I should have known there was a problem when Apple discussed how it would go deeper into four platforms, even though I counted five. Apple Watch. iPhone. Apple TV. Mac. And iPad. I can understand why the number was four: WatchOS, TVOS, iOS …
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The iPhone 6S is made of metal and glass — mostly glass. So it’s probably only a matter of time before you drop it on the concrete and end up with a shattered screen (unless you happen to be rocking an ultra-protective Ballistic case, or something). Assuming you don’t have month-to-month phone insurance, what do you do now? Here are …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 may not feature drastic changes 2:31 If the past is any indication, we’re still about about four months away from Apple trotting out the next iPhone. But each passing week seems to bring a new rumor. The latest is that the iPhone 7 — or whatever Apple chooses to call its 2016 model — …
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