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Turning on iPhone 7’s Airplane Mode might knock out your service

Got the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus? You might need to keep an eye on Airplane Mode if you travel. Some owners reported a glitch that causes their phone to lose network service after turning Airplane Mode off, according to internal documents allegedly obtained by MacRumors. The website said that phones continued searching for …

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Don’t drill a ‘headphone jack’ into your new iPhone 7

Some things in life shouldn’t require a don’t-try-this-at-home warning. Purposefully destructive YouTube user TechRax’s recent video titled “Secret Hack to Get Headphone Jack on the iPhone 7” is one of these things. TechRax posted the footage on Saturday and it already has over 3.4 million views. The video is a straight-faced joke in the form of a tutorial on adding …

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No headphone jack, no problem: 7 ways to output audio from the iPhone 7

As everyone knows by now, Apple finally worked up the “courage” to eliminate the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus smartphones. According to Phil Schiller, head of marketing, the decision was based on three reasons: firstly to show off Lightning’s ability to adapt to uses beyond charging and data transfer, secondly to save space and thirdly …

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Samsung kicks off Galaxy Note 7 exchanges

Samsung on Monday kicked off its exchange program for potentially dangerous Galaxy Note 7 phones, in the UK and Ireland at least. The company says it has fixed the battery flaw that caused multiple devices to burst into flames and will start issuing Note owners with replacement devices this week. The UK is one of the first countries to receive …

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Is losing the headphone jack from a phone a deal breaker? (Open_Tab)

Now playing: Watch this: Is losing the headphone jack from a phone a deal breaker?… 6:57 How do you listen to music? Is it through traditional wired headphones, or have you made the jump to wireless audio through Bluetooth? Now that phones such as Apple’s new iPhone 7 and Motorola’s Moto Z handset are moving away from including a headphone …

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iPhone 7’s display is ‘visually indistinguishable from perfect,’ says testing firm

The Apple iPhone 7 has the best display of any smartphone made to date, according to testing firm DisplayMate. In a Technology Shoot-Out spotted Monday between the iPhone 6 and iPhone 7, DisplayMate President Raymond Soneira found that although the two phones have the same pixel resolution, the 7’s new dual color gamuts are not only 25 percent brighter than …

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iPhone 7 takes on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 in dunk and drop tests

The water-resistant iPhone 7 and 7 Plus live up to their billing when forced to take a dunk, but they still crack up when dropped again and again. Gadget warranty outfit SquareTrade ran Apple’s latest through a torture gauntlet, and you can see the results in the video below. The company tested the new iPhones for water resistance and durability …

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MacOS Sierra’s universal clipboard is awesome

MacOS Sierra understands you have multiple devices and the occasional need to share data across them. Apple’s desktop software now lets you easily share files via iCloud Drive, but for bits of text or even a photo or video, you can now use the universal clipboard to copy something on one device and paste it using another. Sierra’s universal clipboard …

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Should wired headphone owners think twice before buying an iPhone 7?

Since the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus don’t have a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, does that pose a dilemma for anybody who invested in a decent set of wired headphones? True, the 7 and 7 Plus come with a Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter for connecting wired headphones, but what about sound quality? Will the adapter degrade it? Since …

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iPhone Next: How iPhone 7 hints at next year’s breakthrough

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7, reviewed: maybe it’s boring, but it’s absolutely… 2:45 Go ahead. Yawn at the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Or dig a little deeper, and maybe you’ll perk up at some tantalizing clues to the future of the iPhone. You see, there may be more to Apple’s latest phone than just a carbon copy …

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