TomTom is doubling down on fitness. The navigation company on Thursday introduced its first dedicated fitness tracker, the TomTom Touch. It’s a slim band with a touchscreen display and five days of battery life that can measure steps, distance, calories burned, sleep and heart rate. The tracker can also display notifications when connected to an …
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Apple’s App Store has hundreds of thousands of apps, but the company says it’s time to get rid of some duds. Two categories will be scrubbed from the store, the company told developers, according to a message seen by TechCrunch. First to go will be old apps that aren’t compatible with modern iPhones and iPads, or that don’t abide by …
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I’ve seen some large in-ear headphones before, but Audeze’s new iSine Series in-ears take the cake. The reason they’re so big is they incorporate the company’s planar-magnetic drivers (30mm), which tend to sound very coherent and spacious, with low distortion, and until now have only been found in models that have full-size earcups. If “planar magnetic drivers” sounds Greek to …
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Now playing: Watch this: Amazon wants to put Alexa on your PC 1:28 Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant may be talking her way into yet another important place: PCs. Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC maker, has held talks with Amazon on potentially using Alexa in its computers and other devices, according to a Lenovo executive with knowledge of the talks. The …
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Even before we got on the plane to fly to Berlin, we knew something was up. This week we’re at the technology trade show IFA in Germany, where manufacturers and other industry types gather each September to show off their coolest new kit. With so many tech companies in one place, you get a sense of shifts and trends in …
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Michael Doherty can’t live without his iPhone. He sends text messages to his friends, uses the phone to check football scores and even followed the Olympics this year. Being both deaf and blind, it’s one of the few ways Doherty can interact the world. The combination of hearing and vision disabilities makes navigating the world incredibly difficult. But with the …
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Give up my physical keyboard for a touchscreen phone? I don’t think so. –Any BlackBerry user, circa 2008. It wasn’t long ago that power users would scoff at the thought of banging out an email on an iPhone, preferring the tactile precision of physical keys. Fast-forward to today, and touchscreen typing is the norm. A BlackBerry, or really any phone …
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It’s almost time for Apple to announce its new iPhone, which means rumors are flying fast. On Wednesday, photos reportedly showing the packaging for the new phones hit the internet, offering support to theories that the new devices will ditch the traditional headphone jack for a new system. The photos suggest the phones will ship with Lightning EarPods, according to …
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Yes, the Samsung Gear S3 will work with the iPhone. But the company’s still working the kinks out. Samsung is still studying what the experience between the iPhone and the Gear S2 would look like, and has launched a beta in South Korea to test things out. The company promised to make the Gear S2 compatible with Apple’s iOS software …
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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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