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Quickly scroll through emoji on iOS by swiping the toolbar

Apple is notorious for littering its operating systems with hidden features that make using their devices easier. For instance, there’s no visible backspace button in the stock iOS Calculator app. Yet, the everyone lost their minds when someone discovered swiping on the numbers entered (not the keypad numbers) would backspace one time. That’s just one …

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Force iPhone to show numerical value for signal strength

If you are a numbers person, you may like this iPhone hack that replaces the five dots in the upper-left corner of your iPhone that indicate the strength of your cellular signal with a numerical value. It does not require you to jailbreak your phone — all you need to do is jump in and out of the hidden Field …

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Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner busted by hackers with paper

You won’t believe your eyes. But maybe the Samsung Galaxy S8 will. In the month since Samsung released its flagship device, hackers in Germany have figured how to break the phone’s iris recognition lock. Samsung has touted the biometric technology as “one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked,” claiming that a person’s iris patterns are “virtually impossible …

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Samsung’s latest Gear 360 is cheaper, more powerful than before

If you’re ready to dive into creating 360-degree photos and video, Samsung has a new camera to sell you and you don’t even have to have one of its phones this time around. Available starting Thursday, May 25, the 2017 Gear 360 will sell for $230 — more than $100 less than the bigger, but less powerful original. You’ll be …

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Motorola: We would’ve caught Samsung’s Note 7 battery flaw

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 sent the wireless industry into a frenzy when the phones started catching fire. Samsung itself recalled and scrapped the phones, and many other companies started looking into their own manufacturing processes. But at least one phone maker held firm with the processes it already had in place. “Absolutely not,” said Motorola’s Russ Gyenes when asked whether …

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T-Mobile has its sights set on Verizon Wireless customers. The company said Wednesday it will cover the payments left on your Apple iPhone or Google Pixel if you bring it over from Verizon. Since they work equally well on both networks, the hope is that customers will just keep their phones when using T-Mobile service. The offer is a limited …

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Apple iPhone 8 dummy unit appears in hands

A real prototype of the iPhone 8 has yet to appear in the wild, but we may have just got the next best thing. A short video of a non-functional “iPhone 8 dummy unit” appeared online courtesy of mobile leaker and renderer Benjamin Geskin. The iPhone 8 rumor machine has been running at a high gear, so much so that …

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Bye, Siri: 6 tips for using Google Assistant on the iPhone

Now playing: Watch this: Get to know your Google Assistant on iOS 2:11 Google on Wednesday released a stand-alone Google Assistant app for the iPhone. It’s the first time Google’s assistant has been made available outside Google’s Android and Google Home platforms. You can’t fully replace Siri with Google Assistant, but with a little patience you can use Google Assistant …

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Apple iPhone SE number one in customer satisfaction, according to ACSI survey

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone SE: Get now, or wait? 1:31 The iPhone SE may not have all the bells and whistles of the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t happy with it. A recent survey conducted by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) ranked the iPhone SE as the no. 1 smartphone based …

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Apple and Nokia settle patent dispute and forge new partnership

Apple and Nokia officially buried the hatchet on Tuesday. In a joint statement, the two companies announced they have settled all patent disputes and agreed new terms that should see them work together harmoniously for many years to come. Under the new agreement, Nokia will provide network infrastructure products and services to Apple. Apple, for its part, will resume selling …

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